r/oddlysatisfying • u/Wise_Confidence_8588 • 1d ago

"Calculated to the millimeter."

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u/AliciaXTC 1d ago

Excellent, then when the house settles or shifts, it's fucked.

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u/Awesome_Cabbage 1d ago

Exactly! Not to mention if it's warm or humid in the summer and the wood expands

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u/King_Fluffaluff 1d ago

Or if it's warm or humid... When someone takes a shower every morning/night.

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS 1d ago

It's a bathroom, I give it a week lmao

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u/flibz-the-destroyer 1d ago

I love it when the wood expands!

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u/Coffeedemon 1d ago

It's alright. They don't have seasons where this is.

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u/ZessF 1d ago

I bet they also have a mirror glued to a wall somewhere.

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u/Snape_Grass 1d ago

Thanks I hate it

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u/Thor-Grim-Man 1d ago edited 1d ago

You have any idea whats gonna happen to fingers? Omg please no... i cant...

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u/alterrible 1d ago

Definitely a "crushed and wedged" situation

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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 1d ago

"Oh just pull it back the other way"

*grind crunch smear*

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u/TurkeyThaHornet 1d ago

Frank and beans

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u/darsynia 1d ago

Waffle House, home injury edition

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u/EndGlum8752 1d ago

"Juiced"

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u/PowderPills 1d ago

Wedged like getting your skin peeled off?

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u/RaidensReturn 1d ago

Yeah…. This is far from satisfying

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u/HarveysBackupAccount 1d ago

It's okay, buildings never shift and settle with time or changes in humidity

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u/TitianBelle 20h ago

Especially a bathroom door. No humidity there.

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u/orthopod 23h ago

It's going to get stuck as soon as the hinge sags

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u/Mithril_Juggernaut 1d ago

Sure hope those hinges stay tight and neat forever. Oh and there's no expansion of the wood.

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u/Cryptocalypse2018 1d ago edited 1d ago

or shifting or settling of the foundation

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u/Gold-Band3830 1d ago

Or humidity...

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u/davewave3283 1d ago

Or door goblins

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u/Responsible_While207 1d ago

Damn door goblins!

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u/Argyleskin 1d ago

Too soon, my family of Borrowers were taken too soon by door goblins.

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u/LonelyMenace101 1d ago

Better than the vacuum.

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u/totallyhumanhonest 1d ago

They ruined Scotland!

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u/iTzbr00tal 1d ago

Or slutty librarians trying to give you a handy when you just want to read Red Rising.

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u/firee1234 legend has it, that one pinball machine is still going as of now 1d ago

r/oddlyspecific

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u/GloomyCardiologist16 1d ago

Or the hunt for red October

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u/Rob_LeMatic 1d ago

Red October is the name of my clitoris.

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u/Pnw_Golf 1d ago

One ping only pleash

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u/vypermann 1d ago

Let me know which library so that I can stay away.

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u/Notsurehowtoreact 1d ago

It's actually crazy how much this comes up. 

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u/Dr_Shivinski 1d ago

Hail libertas! Hail handsy librarians!

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u/favoritedeadrabbit 1d ago

They’re a-door-able.

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u/fanta_bhelpuri 1d ago

You have those too!?

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u/673moto 1d ago

This.

I hung a dozen doors in a house on a hot day and was proud of how tight and even I got all the reveals... Well the next week it rained hard...and guess what?...I had to go back and rehang all those doors that now were so tight they wouldn't open or shut

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u/NPCwithnopurpose 1d ago

How would you even compensate for that when hanging a door? Bigger gaps?

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u/673moto 1d ago

Now I hang doors based on my local weather. ..

Humid out leave a 1/8"- gap/reveal...if it's hot and dry leave more like 1/4"+

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u/taxable_income 1d ago

Not OP, but you could plane a little bit of material off the sides...

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u/673moto 1d ago

You could ...but this guy had custom doors that were already painted and he was not ok with cutting the hinge side and tops. So off with all the casing and rehang them all. Live and learn

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u/adsjabo 1d ago

Humidity, in a bathroom. Never heard of it

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u/Squidproquo1130 1d ago

Now why on earth would there be humidity in a bathroom? Madness!

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u/misternuttall 1d ago

In a bathroom? Get outta heeeeeere..

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u/Bigfoot1043 1d ago

Or the wood gets excited

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u/emrysse 1d ago

Agree I live in an Earthquake zone with periods of heavy rain/extreme dry...

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u/Krazyonee 1d ago

First thing I thought. Within the year that is going to be hitting that sink for multiple reasons.

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u/ZERV4N 1d ago

Or a hand closing the door in any other position.

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u/sgtbackpain03 1d ago

My first thought too.. imagine running into the bathroom at the last minute, and being unable to close the door because the house shifted a tiny amount.

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u/niazemurad 1d ago

Or a towel not being put away

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u/Stimbes 1d ago

I was going to say to run a hot shower for a little while then try to open it.

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u/anonymousetache 1d ago

Massive explosive diarrhea would make for a better story but sure

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u/Remarkable-Run-9769 1d ago

make it steamy massive explosive diarrhea 

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 1d ago

at some point, there will be fingers jammed up in that gap.

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u/Technical_Customer_1 1d ago

That’s so many things: a threat, a promise, a prediction (like parents whose kid is growing up too fast), dirty talk, sexy talk, gross out talk….

So many opportunities 

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u/whiskeytown79 1d ago

"I forgot to close the bathroom door before summer and now we have to wait until fall for the door to shrink enough to close again"

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u/BaBePaBe 1d ago

Joking aside, I have one of those type of doors in my house. I'm not very amused with the builder and/or the prior owner.

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u/tehmattrix 1d ago

Oops you left the under cabinet door ajar slightly.

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u/No_Internal9345 1d ago

Oops you left your finger in the way and what's this you swung it really hard this one time for no reason and now its wedged in good.

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u/queefsmell 1d ago

I give it 6 mos.

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u/Bee-Aromatic 1d ago

Seriously. The one bathroom door in my house would jam in the corner, but only in the winter. You’d think the low humidity would cause everything to shrink and open it up, but that’s not how it worked. I had to shave about a 1/16” off the corner and now it barely fits a piece of 20lbs copy paper in the winter. You can drive a truck through it in the summer, though…

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u/Herr-Trigger86 1d ago

Or something hanging slightly off the counter

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u/SaltManagement42 1d ago

Oh and there's no expansion of the wood.

Just so long as you don't use a shower nearby.

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u/Deadhouse_Dagon 1d ago

Yep. There are SEVERAL reasons why you don't see more videos of people bragging about stuff like this.

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u/Square_Minute_ 1d ago

Yeah, today is the only day they were able to take that video. Because tomorrow it will already be fucked

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u/ScratchIll7378 1d ago

Most quality/custom solid core doors use staggered “scrap” pieces of wood that look random but are tediously placed in a certain arrangement to minimize movement by up to 90% in all directions.

I don’t have time to look up what it looks like before the final layers go on, but you’d swear it was the most hack job in existence if you don’t know what’s going on.

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u/musthavesoundeffects 1d ago

Yeah I don’t think 90% is enough for this

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u/Sufficient_Emu2343 1d ago

Or seasonal changes in temp and humidity.

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u/Open-Mouse4728 1d ago

My wood is expanding watching this

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u/One_Money_9742 1d ago

lol. Pessimist! What would cause wood to expand in such a mundane application as the…. bathroom.

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u/Possible_Ad_1763 1d ago

The first thing about which I thought lol

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u/weristjonsnow 1d ago

The foundation settling is what would doom me

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u/kSoImSlightlyRemoved 1d ago

Houses move. This is stupid design.

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u/GooseSongComics 1d ago

I’ve always wanted mine closer to the city

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u/SaltManagement42 1d ago

I want mine further away. I want a grocery store on one side, my job on another, and everybody else far away. Also I want it to be as cheap as possible.

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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 1d ago

And I also want to be able to get to any event in the city in less than 10 minutes, including parking and walking in

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u/SaltManagement42 1d ago

Of course the traffic for those events can't inconvenience my day to day life either.

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u/Canadian-and-Proud 1d ago

Living next door to work sounds horrible

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u/rob132 1d ago

So does wood.

I hope he has a wood planer handy.

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u/Newkular_Balm 1d ago

50% chance it moves away from the sink.

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u/TheImmenseRat 1d ago

Some fingers are going to get caught in there, i know it

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 1d ago

There is no rubber thingy on that wall tile.

One careless swing of the door and that tile is shattered.

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u/Realistic-Action8195 1d ago

now slam the door

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u/Ropeleading 1d ago

The centrifugal force will for sure make the door touch the sink

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u/effyoucreeps 1d ago

centrifugal or centripetal? ;)

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u/tahlyn 1d ago

It's a matter of perspective.

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u/94NDTA 1d ago

centrifupetal

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u/MainCorrect8791 1d ago

Centipedes? Too many legs.

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u/tryptonite12 1d ago

Every day for a decade or so... I feel whoever did this is someone whose never hung a door. If the screws holding the hinges for an exterior door don't shift a few mm,(and they absolutely will) the hinge pins will, or the frame and shims will, or the house will settle, or wood in the high humidity of a bathroom will expand.

Are we like being trolled? Cus what kind of person, whose capable of installing a sink and/or door could still think this was a good idea.

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u/Absurd_Uncertainty 1d ago

Give it a year until the hinges bow that 1mm haha

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u/DesireeThymes 1d ago

This is terrible on so many levels.

  • houses shift and move
  • wood expands and contracts
  • if someone opens the door quickly centrifugal force will push it out
  • things change as they age

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u/Daniel_H212 1d ago

Wood especially expands and contracts with heat and moisture. Sure hope that's a half bath and not a full bath with a shower or bathtub.

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u/Minimal_Nigma 1d ago

This isn’t oddly satisfying. It’s more like mildly anxiety inducing!

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u/prof_tornasol 1d ago

I feel like this sub is going s**ttier over and over. How can this have 21K votes???? This isn't satisfying at all at so many levels. And most of the comments are against it, so I can't understand.

And post like this are happening more and more frequently here.

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u/HornyHousewifu 23h ago

My guess is people mindlessly upvoting as they mindlessly scroll

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u/DoingBestWeCan 1d ago

I found it r/ mildlyinfuriating that this was posted under r/ oddlysatisfying when this is just a problem 2 months away.

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u/Noobzoid123 1d ago

.... Houses shift ever so slightly over time. Good luck.

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u/Majestic_Shoe 1d ago

That gave me anxiety.

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u/RenAlg 1d ago

pinchy pinchy

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u/bonnydoe 1d ago

This finger grinding construction is at the right place! The kid can bleed out above the sink.

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u/Vermontkm 1d ago

Hopefully no humidity.

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u/barfbutler 1d ago

Wait till the door swells from the shower moisture.

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u/Away_Stock_2012 1d ago

Thank god wood never expands

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u/Captain_Rocketbeard 1d ago

or buildings never shift

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u/Gumbercules81 1d ago

Wait a few weeks

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u/Funmanhahaha 1d ago

5°c temperature increase and the gap is too small.

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u/petewondrstone 1d ago

Doors don’t settle and then move a couple millimeters. /s

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u/Useful-Problem-1725 1d ago

Good thing houses never change shape season to season.

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u/Possible-Chip8925 1d ago

Makes me anxious

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u/Celeryface 1d ago

This is not at all satisfying

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u/justjoeindenver 1d ago

luckily, it's not in a humid environment that will cause the wood to swell.

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u/classyfemme 1d ago

Not satisfying. This will last maybe a year.

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u/Jballzs13 1d ago

Once humidity hits that thing it’s game over

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u/XIPWNFORFUN2 1d ago

After 20 years and the foundation starts breaking down that won't be so smooth.

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u/traevyn 1d ago

Hope they measured on an extremely warm and humid day, would be a shame if anything expanded at any point

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u/Reasoning-II 19h ago

All you need is a little humidity and all bets are off

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u/Pm-me-ur-happysauce 1d ago

Until it gets hot, then it swells and hits the tub

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u/Alex12500 1d ago

Nah fuck ghis. Way too close for comfort. Someone is gonna end up having a finger in there

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u/Big_Target_1405 1d ago

It's wood..it'll move at some point and be a fucking disaster

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u/Normalcy_prevails 1d ago

Oddly worrying for me anyway.

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u/Gomdok_the_Short 1d ago

Give it some humidity or a few layers of paint.

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u/unaccountablemod 1d ago

It won't last.

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u/Juleswf 1d ago

It will be so hard to replace that sink one day.

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u/Infinite-Nose8252 1d ago

Wait until it warps

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u/URGAMESUX 1d ago

Get the steam rolling in there, we will see.

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u/No_Equivalent_4412 1d ago

It works until the door starts to sag

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u/Exceptionalynormal 1d ago

Ours is like this, fine until you jam your finger in it and crush the joint!

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u/johnaldmilligan 1d ago

I think I speak for us all when I say: "Report back in 2 years"

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u/Overwatch_1ightning 20h ago

Did anyone not tell this man wood swells?

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u/Individual_Respect90 18h ago

That’s not going to last. Good luck though

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u/SlightlySubpar 1d ago

Never lean on that sink to shave in the mirror

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u/100K-Monkeys 1d ago

Something something wood contracts and expands.

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u/GuardingxCross 1d ago

Doors can expand during humid temperatures.

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u/cancellationstation 1d ago

Nah, that’s serendipity

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u/gringledoom 1d ago

Yep, I'd say "calculated to the millimeter!" too if it just barely worked by sheer luck.

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u/shityplumber 1d ago

I have been around long enough in this doing new projects, thats luck, not skill.

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u/Baconoid_ 1d ago

That's a pinch point

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u/AcrobaticJuice7630 1d ago

it’s anxiety inducing actually

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u/HudsonAtHeart 1d ago

Lucky Home Depot clearance item!

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u/xAustin90x 1d ago

A bolt on one of the hinges also just needs to move 1mm

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u/SwankeyDankey 1d ago

oh give that door a year and your done

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u/TrolledToDeath 1d ago

In fabrication machining any clearance is still clearance. In home building my bet is a shattered sink in three months time.

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u/ConstructionIll956 1d ago

Give that a week.

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u/ender3po 1d ago

Just wait untill the door swells

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u/lazermaniac 1d ago

It's a wooden door leading to a roomful of moisture... That alignment is not gonna last.

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u/FourthLife 1d ago

humidity is gonna fuck this shit up

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u/arm0r3dd0ng 1d ago

One humid day later

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 1d ago

Then the house settles slightly and the door scrapes everything for 6 months per year.

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u/jediPlainswalker 1d ago

Finger pincher 3000

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u/ObligationOk4350 1d ago

The finger pincher 3000. 

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u/sxyvirgo 1d ago

I guess it's summer time so humidity is at its highest right now?

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u/Random-Talking-Mug 1d ago

Not satisfying. Very anxiety enducing actually.

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u/Empty-Ad69 1d ago edited 22h ago

Just wait a few months until the hinges loosen a bit.

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u/lucylucylane 1d ago

I would jam my fingers

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u/Ordinary-Easy 1d ago

Come back after a few showers and I'm sure we'll probably see a different situation.

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u/Bgrngod 1d ago

Doesn't work if you open it quicker. No way.

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u/potificate 1d ago

You know houses move, right? 😂

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u/Guy_in_canada 1d ago

Take a hot steamy shower and that door won't fit

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u/Garchompisbestboi 1d ago

This isn't satisfying, it's stupid. Wood swells when it absorbs moisture so good luck if that happens while the door is open and it becomes trapped.

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u/anneoneamouse 1d ago

Don't be silly, it's in the bathroom. No moisture there. Oh wait.

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u/raxitron 1d ago

In under 6 seconds one of my kids would fuck their hand up on this and the other one would be "trapped" behind it screaming.

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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 1d ago

I sure hope the temperature and humidity never change.

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u/gunga-din 1d ago

So the lightest but of humidity could mess up the sink? No thank you

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u/StoneHammers 1d ago

Mildly terrifying maybe.

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u/KindAd6466 1d ago

Lets wait for that first bit of steam to penetrate

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u/Shankar_0 1d ago

It'll start sticking within a year when the building starts to settle and thermal/moisture levels fluctuate.

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u/iSteve 1d ago

Until the wood swells in summer.

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u/QueenOfPhiladelphia 22h ago

Great so when the house settles it’ll be fked

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u/typo180 16h ago

One man's oddlysatisfying is another man's oddlyanxietyinducing I guess.

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u/Tribalbob 12h ago

Wait until the house settles in a few years time.

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u/ScoobrDoo 9h ago

Houses shift...

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u/honestlycarley 2h ago

Humidity has entered the chat

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u/Tiberius_Jim 1d ago

As a graphic designer this is the opposite of satisfying.

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u/Kurovi_dev 1d ago

A couple hot and cold seasons will have the final say.

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u/BolognaIsThePassword 1d ago

I literally had to take a door off the hinges and use a planer on it and put it back on last year because of dumb shit like this. There’s nothing satisfying about this because as a home owner I know that’s not going to last very long before it becomes the door in the house that doesn’t open all the way for a few months until they get fed up enough to have to fix it lol.