Actually more of a trying to mitigate a DIY cock-up / annoyance.
Despite an experience of painting a set of bedside drawers where they now don't open/close easily...
My other half has taken it upon herself to paint a door and doorframe. Now the door makes a horrendous sticky, new paint creak just at the point where it is nearly shut. This door is habitually just ajar as it makes my workspace much warmer if it is closed, but the cats need to get in and out too.
So I need to work out where to sand and/or chip the paint away. Or lubricate it somehow. Is there some magic DIY hack I don't know about? Either some magic paper that I can put in to show where the rubbing is, or some kind of lubrication that doesn't need constant topping up. I thought talc might work.
Otherwise I'm going to end up sanding a large area back in the hope of solving it.
The bedside drawers I now just leave slightly open so there's a way to get a better grip when they stick. This winds my wife up something chronic, but then she shouldn't have painted the internal surfaces of my bedside drawers.
Domestic. Bliss.
I'd say if is just been painted, after you open/close it a few times there will be quite apparent witness marks in the new paint where it's rubbing.Â
Failing that, put a bit of 120 grit between the frame and door and open/close it a few times, and it'll make itself obvious 🙂
Did it actually shut perfectly before the makeover?
Did it get taken off to paint?
Either way check the hinge screws are all seated correctly and the heads aren't interfering as the door closes on them
Tear a sheet of thin paper into 25mm wide stripsÂ
Open the door slightly and put a strip at 90deg to the frame above the top hinge
Shut the door and pull the strip out in the same general direction as the door opens
Repeat top to bottom, then look more closely wherever it jams.
If it was fine before then it's bound (sorry) to be a build up of paint, probably on a corner.
Repeat on the catch side
Hello,
Candle wax may do the trick, or silicone spray from the bike shed. Wax is best though. Â
The old boys swore by it when I was an apprentice. Â
if theres no obvious rub marks round the the outside edges of the door/frame then in could be a build up of paint somewhere on the hinged edge of the door that is being squeezed that when you try to close the door. That would be harder to see, but the clue would be the door sort of springing back  a bit when you try to close it rather than jamming itself part closed