...not really, sort of... maybe.
This morning when I came back from work (around 8am) I went to close our front door behind me and the top hinge fell off... with a piece of the door frame attached. I was standing there holding up a door yelling for someone to come and help, but I am a weakling so I dropped the door and the bottom half of the door frame snapped off too.
Looking at it, it looks like the wood has rotted through, which isn't a huge surprise given the climate of the area we live in (it is a hybrid rainforest-bushland area) so lots of humidity and dampness and our house is nearing 50 years old, weatherboard and has never been renovated, but now we are worried that if our doorframe is rotting through, what else is about to break off?
Sash is walking around the house on tippy-toes "in case the floor breaks" (I don't know why he thinks tippy-toes will help that, but oh well).
Fortunately our house isn't wide open for the general public, we have a sunroom area at the front of our house with a screen door that locks, it's just a matter of not being able to retain any warmth in the front of the house at the moment.
This had to happen on a weekend when no tradies are answering their phones, didn't it?
This morning when I came back from work (around 8am) I went to close our front door behind me and the top hinge fell off... with a piece of the door frame attached. I was standing there holding up a door yelling for someone to come and help, but I am a weakling so I dropped the door and the bottom half of the door frame snapped off too.
Looking at it, it looks like the wood has rotted through, which isn't a huge surprise given the climate of the area we live in (it is a hybrid rainforest-bushland area) so lots of humidity and dampness and our house is nearing 50 years old, weatherboard and has never been renovated, but now we are worried that if our doorframe is rotting through, what else is about to break off?
Sash is walking around the house on tippy-toes "in case the floor breaks" (I don't know why he thinks tippy-toes will help that, but oh well).
Fortunately our house isn't wide open for the general public, we have a sunroom area at the front of our house with a screen door that locks, it's just a matter of not being able to retain any warmth in the front of the house at the moment.
This had to happen on a weekend when no tradies are answering their phones, didn't it?