How to lubricate an interior door: processing hinges and a door lock

To remedy the situation, you can use several types of lubrication:

• silicone;
• lithium;
• sewing;
• culinary.

Silicone and lithium lubricants are available from your auto shop. They have a wide range of applications: car grease can perfectly lubricate doors. If the household has a sewing machine, there will probably be machine oil as well. It can also be used to solve a problem.

But how to lubricate an interior door when none of the listed funds are at hand at all, and the door creaks and spoils your nerves? Any edible vegetable oil is suitable as a short-term express option. True, the effect of it will disappear after a few days, since such a product will quickly drain over the treated surface.

Another non-standard move is a school pencil lead. You need to find the softest pencil, remove a piece of lead from it and insert it into a creaky loop. It will remain three or four times to close and open the door again, and it will stop creaking. The slate crumbs will do the trick.

Armed with a tool for processing loops, you can start the process itself. How to lubricate door hinges? Pretty simple. The work consists of the following stages:

• open the door as much as possible;
• put any dense object (wooden block, rolling pin, hatchet, etc.) under the lower part of the door leaf in order to slightly raise it;
• make sure that the metal pin connecting the two parts of the loop comes out of the socket;
• depending on the design of the hinge, remove the pin or provide access for lubricant to the inside of the hinge;
• draw grease into a syringe (without a needle) or a pipette and drip into the pin hole. If spray lubricant is used, direct the jet inside the hinge structure;
• insert the pin into place, remove the object supporting the door leaf;
• close and open the door five to six times, allowing the grease to be evenly distributed over the hinge.

After the hinges are processed, the door lock can also be processed. Maintenance lubrication should be carried out once a year to extend the life of the machine.

How to lubricate the door lock? The meaning is the same as when processing the hinges: to provide access to the lubricant inside the mechanism using a syringe or a spray can. When the oil base is inside the metal part, you need to insert the key into the cylinder several times and turn it.