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vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:39 PM

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So I opened up my door and half of it broke

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:40 PM

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how hard did you open that door

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:40 PM

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Gently

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:40 PM

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I dont believe you

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:40 PM

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😭😭😭

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Bro I opened it regularly I swear

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:41 PM

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maybe this time, but that was slammed many times

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:41 PM

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I need to know how to repair it 🙂

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:41 PM

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do you have any tools?

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:41 PM

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uhhh

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it would be easier to remake it than repair it probably

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:42 PM

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tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:42 PM

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no

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:42 PM

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Only all this

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I used it to get the door off

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The wall

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:42 PM

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well done

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:42 PM

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do you own this, or is this a "I dont want the landlord to know repair"

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how long does it have to hold up

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:42 PM

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Apartment

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:43 PM

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you broke off both stub tenons on the rails

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:43 PM

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i mean, I'll second that remaking it is what I would do.

To answer in the parameters of your question, I suppose you could probably dowel it somehow but its not going to be pretty

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:43 PM

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No it’s just the crack that needs fixing

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:43 PM

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lol no

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its all of it

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or it'll just fall apart again

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:44 PM

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there's an integral wood connection between the pieces of the frame

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or, there was

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dowels/dominos....might work

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but not a desirable reference surface

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:44 PM

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tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:45 PM

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I don't need more pictures I know how cabinet doors work

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:45 PM

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tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:45 PM

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ok cool good luck to you and your posterity

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:45 PM

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tardy pivot I don't need more pictures I know how cabinet doors work

I don’t know anything about about cabinets okay lol

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:46 PM

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I mean you can glue it back together and treat it like a newborn infant for the rest of the time you live there, but there is no repair you can do with the tools you have

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and even that you'll need to buy clamps

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and I doubt it'll be invisible

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prob best to just explain that it fell apart in normal use

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"normal use"

carmine garden Jan 13, 2025, 5:46 PM

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I don’t think there ever was a tenon

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:47 PM

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yea it does look like ultra cheap landlord special butt glued cabinetry maybe

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the photos arent super clear

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:47 PM

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it's cope/stick

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:47 PM

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Cheap landlandlord with incredibly high rent

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:48 PM

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oh I see it now, it broke in a very different way than I expected

pearl void Jan 13, 2025, 5:48 PM

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vale wharf Cheap landlandlord with incredibly high rent

Tell him to put that high rent to use and fix your stuff

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:48 PM

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epoxy might hold it for...a while

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I suspect it's all broken because it's the only way for it to break like it did

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those tenons broke because they had to for the stile ro flex enough to snap the profile off at the panel

glad heath Jan 13, 2025, 5:49 PM

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got levered against the stove there?

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:50 PM

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tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:50 PM

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slammed/forced closed with something in the way

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:50 PM

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So should I just put epoxy on the door part that’s broken?

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:51 PM

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I'd run it down the entire groove

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and it'll probably fail anyway

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but maybe not for a few/many uses

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:51 PM

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Or gorilla 🦍 glue lol Jo that won’t work I think

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Jk

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:52 PM

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I'd suggest not using compromised advice components as your own variables

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but I also lose and gain nothing from your success rate

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so be free

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 5:52 PM

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So there’s no way I can fix it

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Is basically your saying I’m screwed

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:53 PM

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you can cobble it back together and hope

carmine garden Jan 13, 2025, 5:53 PM

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The construction was not great to begin with.

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 5:53 PM

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a cabinet shop could remake it for maybe $200?

pearl void Jan 13, 2025, 5:58 PM

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Get the landlord to fix it?

vale wharf Jan 13, 2025, 6:02 PM

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pearl void Get the landlord to fix it?

Hell no rent already 900+ for a stupid studio apartment they probably gonna charge more rent just to fix that

pearl void Jan 13, 2025, 6:04 PM

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Okay

carmine garden Jan 13, 2025, 6:06 PM

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I‘d try to find someone with a domino

buoyant glade Jan 13, 2025, 6:10 PM

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Or a doweling jig? It would be visible, but maybe not visible enough for the landlord to notice

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You could also just do what the landlord would do and use wood glue/drywall screws

worthy edge Jan 13, 2025, 6:30 PM

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There's a chance it was previously broken and already shoddily fixed once. I'd go with (in order):

Fess up to landlord, deny any abuse
Go with Elodie's approach and hide and lie
Try to fix it with 5 minute epoxy and hope

I have ethical constraints to lying or deceiving which is why Elodie's approach isn't first. The reason a self-fix with epoxy is last is that a bad repair job is harder to repair than the original fix. i.e. I could put the door back together with epoxy but I have woodworking experience and tools. No tools and no experience with a cabinet you don't own...

All the landlords I've known are expecting apartments to be trashed. I've heard everything from the apartment being so filthy they needed to gut and rebuild to sinks being ripped off the wall. Maybe explaining "it just broke" they'll take you at your word and just fix it.

🤷

wintry isle Jan 13, 2025, 6:45 PM

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vale wharf Hell no rent already 900+ for a stupid studio apartment they probably gonna char...

They're gonna charge you for it in your security deposit anyway, better than paying more on your own. Or more realistically they will say "oh well, you don't need the door anyway"

tardy pivot Jan 13, 2025, 6:46 PM

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Don’t worry they’ll do both

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They’ll charge this one and not replace it for the next one

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