How much to fix/buy apt. door?

[CaseTragedy]

Just put a hole through our cheap restroom door.
Anyone have experience fixing them? How much does it usually cost?

Its a hole about fist sized. =/

 

[Schadenfreude]

Simple. Use the ol' college method of fixing holes/damaged holes.

Put a poster over it.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Jehovah
Simple. Use the ol' college method of fixing holes/damaged holes.

Put a poster over it.

That works until you have to move.


Me, I prevented that problem. I took all the inside doors off the hinges and put them in the closet

 

[CaseTragedy]

Well...moving out in 1month...so I gotta fix it.

Hope its not too 'spensive.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: CaseTragedy
Well...moving out in 1month...so I gotta fix it.

Hope its not too 'spensive.

just go ask the maintinence guy. He can tell you how much it will cost.

 

[rgwalt]

You can check at a hardware store like Home Depot or Lowes to see if they have anything like the door in your apartment. They probably won't though, and your complex will charge you an arm and a leg for it. Just be honest about the whole situation. It will make dealing with the complex much easier.

Ryan

 

[Schadenfreude]

This is what the girls that lived in the apartment two years ago did to fix their problem before they moved out:

They put up mirrors on the wall, conveniently located so that one of the mirrors covered up the hole - and it was a permanent fixture (with those little sticky pads) - when we took it off, there was a big gaping hole on the wall behind it . . ..

 

[N8Magic]

My old roommate did this, and if it's your standard wooden door it shouldn't cost more than $30-40. (Home Depot)

Make sure you take measurements of the old door and where the hinges/doorknob/latch are located on the door and take these measurements with you when you go.

 

[amdskip]

It's probably a hallow door so it's not really possible to fix and make it look right. Only thing you could do is cut/stain a piece of 1/8" plywood and glue it to the door. It's still gonna look wierd though as the trim will not come out flush with the door like it was done originally.

 

[RU482]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
My old roommate did this, and if it's your standard wooden door it shouldn't cost more than $30-40. (Home Depot)

Make sure you take measurements of the old door and where the hinges/doorknob/latch are located on the door and take these measurements with you when you go.

That sounds about right. It might even be a little cheaper, since you only have to buy the door and not the whole door jamb.

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: redly1

Originally posted by: N8Magic
My old roommate did this, and if it's your standard wooden door it shouldn't cost more than $30-40. (Home Depot)

Make sure you take measurements of the old door and where the hinges/doorknob/latch are located on the door and take these measurements with you when you go.

That sounds about right. It might even be a little cheaper, since you only have to buy the door and not the whole door jamb.

All prices in Canadian dollars.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: Jehovah
Simple. Use the ol' college method of fixing holes/damaged holes.

Put a poster over it.

That works until you have to move.


Me, I prevented that problem. I took all the inside doors off the hinges and put them in the closet

:Q

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

go buy a metal mirror and some bondo.

bondo the pieces of the door to the back of the mirror. then bondo the mirror to the rest of the door.

use a level and get the mirror dead center in the door. make it look good and MAYBE you can sneak it past check out inspection.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

It's probably a hallow door so it's not really possible to fix and make it look right.

The dude is one bad sonofabitch if he punched a hole through a solid wood door

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones

It's probably a hallow door so it's not really possible to fix and make it look right.

The dude is one bad sonofabitch if he punched a hole through a solid wood door

LOL yeah i am sure the football team would cover his roid induced rages too.

 

[Doggiedog]

Buy some drywall, spackle, tape and paint and fix it yourself. It shouldn't be that hard.

 

[Binar]

new door at homedepot is $65

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Buy some drywall, spackle, tape and paint and fix it yourself. It shouldn't be that hard.

someone didn't read the thread/topic

 

[wyvrn]

I tried doing this to my bathroom door and it came out horribly. I need to go buy a replacement for it soon hehe.

Originally posted by: amdskip

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Buy some drywall, spackle, tape and paint and fix it yourself. It shouldn't be that hard.

someone didn't read the thread/topic

 

[Ness]

I remember back in my dorm room days. I put a poster up with a bunch of that double sided foam tape on some drywall. The day I took it down, I ripped the HELL out the drywall.

I wasn't about to pay a few hundred dollars so they could replace the drywall, so I went out, bought a box of plaster of paris, and smoothed the whole thing out, then paid one of the art guys down the hall 5 bucks to match the color and paint it. Hey, for about 15 bucks total, I saved myself a few hundred the housing people would have charged to do the same thing.

Anyway, as far as the door goes, I would try to do something with it first. I mean, if you're going to have to replace it anyway, it's worth a shot.

If the break was pretty clean, you could try and get the piece or two out of the door, buy a small block of wood to put behind the break, and glue the pieces to it, then put a little bit of wood filler around the edges and a little paint work... they might not notice. If the door matches a closet door, try setting it up so the break is on the inside of the closet, just switch the doors if the handles and stuff line up. If it's on the inside of a closet, people checking out the place when you move out will be more likely to just look to make sure the inside of the closet is clean, and might not notice a touch up job on the door.

If the door is beyond repair, then you're better off just getting the maintenance man to order one from a local store, and seeing if you can go pick it up/install it. If you don't and just let them charge you, they will overcharge for the door, charge you labor fees, and probably some other small crap penalty.

Good luck buh-day

 

[CaseTragedy]

I'm gonna call facilities in the morning...if they charge me even half an arm--I'm heading over to Home Depot. Hopefully changing a door isn't too hard to do.

$65 isn't too bad. As long as its under $100 I'll be fine.

Its an apartment complex of a master-planned community--so fixtures or temporary fixes would only anger them. :frown:

 

[Vilica]

Reminds me of what one of my friends did in his apartment last year. Apparently he got locked into the bathroom, somehow (door stuck or somesuch), and nobody was home. He then decided that what was necessary would be to break the door down. So he did such, helped by the fact that he was a football player. Broke the thing in half, and they used a bedsheet as a door for the rest of the year. No clue how they resolved it with management though.

 

[Doggiedog]

Originally posted by: amdskip

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Buy some drywall, spackle, tape and paint and fix it yourself. It shouldn't be that hard.

someone didn't read the thread/topic

I recently bought a hole repair kit from HD. It was $6.95 including light spackle, patch, tape, sandpaper and spackler. The only thing left to buy was paint. I think what is important is the sand papering part. I have an electric sander so it's easier for me.

If you just want a quick fix, maybe you should get something like that. If it is something for your own home that you would have to live with, you might want to go a different route.