Old doors not closing properly. Fixing a door that swings open/closed on it's own. In other instances, it may be easier to move the doorstop. Take it off, denail it and close the door. Then re-fix the stops with the door shut, leaving a 1-2mm gap all the way around to allow for paint.ften when you tighten these screws they just spin/turn in the hole and don't grip. To adjust a door in this instance, I either use a longer screw and try to fix through the frame into the timber stud behind that the frame is fixed to.
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The Spanish-American War. by David Trask. Between 1895 and 1898 Cuba and the Philippine Islands revolted against Spain. The Cubans gained independence, but the Filipinos did not. In both instances the intervention of the United States was the culminating event.