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Doorknob vs. Wall
Soggychicken
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My doorknob made a hole on the wall from repetitive impact. There is no doorstop to stop this from happening. Will my landlord hold me responsible for this?
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Also, this was golden:
Thank you, Rubacava!
And make the landlord wonder why there is an ugly piece of plastic screwed/glued to the wall.
Just mud it over and repaint it. It won't even be noticeable.
I agree with Figgy, though, that if you just stick a panel on the wall you might get a question from the landlord. You could ask before installing it, if you want to go that route. However, if you don't want to bring it up with him and simply want to mud & paint it yourself, you should definitely buy yourself a doorstopper, the kind that attach to the baseboard and have a little rubber tip. to stop the door from hitting the wall again. They're unobtrusive and very cheap, usually just a couple bucks for a nice one. My wife and I had to install doors in our house and that was the first thing we bought after we hung them.
Actually, I think he's talking about one of these:
I would really approach your landlord and see what he prefers for a fix, before you go gluing/screwing stuff on the walls.
Thank you, Rubacava!
I love those things. I would spend hours twanging them as a child
If anything your landlord should have spent the money up front to keep the door from slamming into the wall.
nope, he was talking about what vengy linked
notice "attached to baseboard and have a little rubber tip"
I think at least some protection is necessary to prevent it from happening again, regardless of how the OP fixes the wall.
I would have thought
instead. I've never seen one of those giant rubber pads, they seem a bit more obtrusive and sort of ugly. It also seems like it'd be pretty easy to punch through the wall, even with that there since it's so flat. Of course, the rubber door stop above takes slightly more work to place since it's much smaller.
Tell your landlord what happened, say you would like to fix it yourself because it's minor, ask what paint he used. He will (if he's competent) have the paint on-hand for touch-ups. If you're worried the landlord will insist on doing it himself and charging through the nose, you can try bringing home a bunch of color swatches from Home Depot and eyeballing it.
Me too!
My landlord specified $5/hole for things like hanging paintings and more for dents etc, I was planning on just mudding and painting any holes/damage myself before I moved out but eljeffe has a good point, there are many shades of white.
How would that even work, short of hauling in a chunk of wall?
Actually
They ended up just doing some stupid yellow stippled sponge painting over the damaged wall. Looked completely ridiculous, but I was a kid, so the fuck was I going to say about it :P
The only rubber pads to absorb the knob impact that I've seen were much smaller. I mean that picture looks like it's dual-purpose for Human and Ogre knobs.
Nail/screw holes are considered "Wear and Tear" and are not actually damage that you can be charged for.
Well, at least that was the case when I contacted the housing tribunal in Ontario about it. My landlord a few years ago wanted to charge me for a few nail holes and some anchor/screw holes from a shelf, and it turns out he couldn't!
It makes sense. You can't realistically expect the apartment to not have simple wear and tear from a family living in it for a year or more. The landlord has to repaint the place before he rents it out again anyway.
Holes and dents from carelessness, on the other hand, is a whole different matter.