People astonished after discovering little-known 'extra' use for door springs

13 March 2024 , 05:00

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People astonished after discovering little-known 'extra' use for door springs

The door springs around your home can be used for more than you might think.

Not all homes have door springs, but if yours does, you probably know that their primary purpose is to protect your walls and paintwork from doors bashing against them and causing dents and scratches.

If you grew up in a house with door springs, then you might also know about the annoying noise they make when you play with them, as flicking them gave us endless amusement. But according to one social media user, there's another use that many of us are only just finding out.

There's another use for these (tiktok.com/@the_artful_odds)

You can use it to keep the door open (tiktok.com/@the_artful_odds)

One TikTok user, who goes by the name @the_artful_odds, has revealed it can also be used as a way to keep the door open. While they're aware this isn't the main use of the spring, it can be an "extra use IF you have a wall guard for the knob." They demonstrated the hack in a video on their account, which was captioned: "From doorstopper to doorkeeper."

They said if you need your door to stay open, and you have one of these springs on the wall behind it, simply bend the stopper down, open the door fully over the top, and then release. The stopper at the end will stop the door from closing. The clip went viral on TikTok, with thousands of comments from people who couldn't believe they were only just finding out about this.

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One person wrote: "How am I learning this today." While another said: "What? I’ve never thought of this." A third added: "I've learned more from TikTok than any school that I've been to."

"Well, I was today years old," said a fourth. While a fifth theorised: "Bruh that’s why it’s called a door stopper and not a wall protector." Some reported back after trying it themselves but were disappointed to discover that the gap between the bottom of the door and the floor wasn't big enough in their homes. "You guys can fit your whole foot under your door?" asked one.

"I mean I have one but it's a hard one and not bendy like that whatsoever. I'll just break the baseboard if I did that," argued another person. Try it out for yourselves and let us know in the comments whether it worked for you.

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Zahna Eklund