Help... cheap and easy alternative needed (1 Viewer)

[movan]

Right I give up... it has happened over and over again .. but yesterday morning my hand got stuck inside and I was trying to reach the phone with my foot to call for help.... Anybody else got rid of these silly, sliding doors which jam shut if the stuff inside moves? What with please?

Yesterday I managed to open it a couple of inches to slide my arm in to try and unwedge whatever was blocking it and got stuck for fifteen minutes.. enough is enough.

Not stuck here .. just showing how narrow the opening can be.

 

[Minxy]

Joy, get yourself organised and put stuff in crates/baskets etc that way it can't move and jam the door!

 

[tonka]

If only we had a video of that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Cal54]

Joy, are you sure it wasn't the tuppaware with your 'socks' in that was wedged!!! lol

 

[Silver-Fox]

If i wasn't a Gent id say don't put so much cr*p in there

But seriously do as @Minxy Girl says put things in small containers or have some plywood cut to hold individual items

Or have a 90 deg door made and hinge it

 

[movan]

Joy, get yourself organised and put stuff in crates/baskets etc that way it can't move and jam the door!

Mel.. it was the two special boxes this time that had caused it. The bottom one had moved diagonally and the corner jammed it. I want a simple 'door' type solution.

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[movan]

Joy, are you sure it wasn't the tuppaware with your 'socks' in that was wedged!!! lol

 

[Greenway]

Had the same problem, I put a false wall on the right hand side in front of the runner so I could always open the door far enough to get inside.

 

[movan]

Had the same problem, I put a false wall on the right hand side in front of the runner so I could always open the door far enough to get inside.

YES YES YES YES YES..THAT is the answer. You have definitely been there and bought the t shirt. brilliant idea. YES YES YES

HAPPY BUNNY.

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[Badknee]

Hmmmm, we've got our tv and sat box in there. The tv is on a swing out bracket and tha sat box is errrrrr, sat on that nonslip matting and believe it or not doesn't slip Boxes and nonslip matting would be my suggestion Joy.

 

[The Wino]

Does it jam because of stuff getting in the slot the door goes back into if so could you fix some angle iron to stop stuff getting into the slot?. Or if stuff gets too far back into the cupboard and fouls the door as it slides back a false back to the cupboard in front of the door.

 

[movan]

Does it jam because of stuff getting in the slot the door goes back into if so could you fix some angle iron to stop stuff getting into the slot?. Or if stuff gets too far back into the cupboard and fouls the door as it slides back a false back to the cupboard in front of the door.

No there is no slot. What happens is the door slides open, along the wall of the cupboard. I put stuff in .. When it is closed there is just a cupboard behind the door... with a gap between 'stuff' and the cupboard wall that the door slides along.. But if on a journey the stuff somehow moves up to the wall, then when I try to open the cupboard, the slider won't move because the stuff in the cupboard is up against the wall. Hope I explained that .. bit hard without you seeing it.

What Greenway is saying is put a false wall on the inside side wall so that as you open and close it then the slider is sliding in and out of that compartment and the false wall stops stuff sliding to the real side wall.

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[movan]

Hmmmm, we've got our tv and sat box in there. The tv is on a swing out bracket and tha sat box is errrrrr, sat on that nonslip matting and believe it or not doesn't slip Boxes and nonslip matting would be my suggestion Joy.

Yes that is its real purpose me thinks and then the problem wouldn't arise .. but I don't have one.

 

[Minxy]

Mel.. it was the two special boxes this time that had caused it. The bottom one had moved diagonally and the corner jammed it. I want a simple 'door' type solution.

You mean you don't use the obligatory non-slip stuff ... c'mon Joy, it's only £1 in the pound shops (well fancy that!) and has a multitude of uses, if you use the non-slip stuff and boxes too there shouldn't be any risk of it blocking the side/rear of the door as you open it.

 

[movan]

You mean you don't use the obligatory non-slip stuff ... c'mon Joy, it's only £1 in the pound shops (well fancy that!) and has a multitude of uses, if you use the non-slip stuff and boxes too there shouldn't be any risk of it blocking the side/rear of the door as you open it.

I have got a huge roll of it ... it looks so pretty I never thought of opening it..

I is blonde.

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[Minxy]

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I have got a huge roll of it ... it looks so pretty I never thought of opening it..

I is blonde.

Wrong stuff, that's more for lining the bottom of drawers etc to keep them clean, you want the rubber 'net' type stuff like this:

 

[movan]

Wrong stuff, that's more for lining the bottom of drawers etc to keep them clean, you want the rubber 'net' type stuff like this:

I think I have some of that too somewhere .. will have a look.

 

[icantremember]

Simple answer Joy is to keep a specially trained hamster (other animals are available ) in the cupboard. At least you will be able to stroke it while your hand is stuck in there.

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[pappajohn]

Easy Joy
Only put ROUNDED objects in the cupboards, no corners or flat sides to jam in the convolutions.

 

[Cat53]

I've put all my towels in there. They might slip a bit, but they are squash able so you can get in.

 

[jollyrodger]

@movan I had similar happen
.....was these little beggers jamming it shut !
You haven't got any in your cupboard ,have you Joy ?


PS don't know what they are

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[Minxy]

@movan I had similar happen
.....was these little beggers jamming it shut !
You haven't got any in your cupboard ,have you Joy ?


PS don't know what they are

... invisible hamsters???

 

[movan]

I've put all my towels in there. They might slip a bit, but they are squash able so you can get in.

That's a brilliant idea .. towels and sheets going in there tomorrow .. ty.

 

[icantremember]

That's a brilliant idea .. towels and sheets going in there tomorrow .. ty.

Good move Joy .... the hamsters will enjoy all that nice nesting material.

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[My Dog Likes Fishing]

You don't need any of that fancy non slip stuff. Wack a 6 inch nail through the box and it's going nowhere!

 

[movan]

You don't need any of that fancy non slip stuff. Wack a 6 inch nail through the box and it's going nowhere!

I tried that with my errant husband and they put me in gaol!!