Farm Chore du Jour: Doorknob Repair
This morning I found the doorknob on the store broken. Since Brett was a work, Sarah and I decided to try to fix it ourselves. After all, we needed customers to be able to enter the store.
| Peeking through the hole in the door after we removed the doorknob. |
You may be thinking that doorknob repair isn’t really a farm chore. That is true. However, when you own a farm, you have to be a handyman (or handywoman in this case) or you’ll go broke hiring people to fix all the things that go wrong on a farm.
| The insides of a doorknob |
Neither Sarah nor I had ever fixed a doorknob before, so we weren’t aware that the springs inside would cause pieces to fly out when we took it off the door. We nearly lost a couple of critical parts. It was a lot like doing a jigsaw puzzle to get it back together. Then we found the cause of the breakage in the hole that the doorknob fits in… two loose screws.
Between the wacky weather we’ve been having and the fact that the building is 83 years old, I guess they wiggled their way out of their intended places. There was no sign of vandalism.
Thankfully, we had enough mechanical ability between the two of us to be able to put it all back together before our first customer arrived.
Success!
Good Job Ladies!!!!! Sue Granger
Thanks for sharing the news from Blairs Creek. I wish I were closer so I could participate in some of your classes.
I have many good memories of the place where I was born.
If you ever have issues with your door knobs at home, you could also call a locksmith. The reason for this is because of the fact that there are many different professionals who can do this specific type of service for you. It saves you the time of doing it yourself and it ensures that it is being done in the correct manner.
Earl Mark @ Eastway Lock
Mark, we have called a locksmith at least twice in the last few years and had a good experience with them. In this case, we didn't have time to wait for a locksmith to show up so we decided to tackle it ourselves.