Spring Hinge Door Closer, Fits on Most Door Butt Hinge Pins, 2-Pack

I purchased a couple of dozen of these in order to comply with city inspection requirements on a new construction project with 12 exterior doors. I had my contractors install them. Two major issues immediately showed: 1. The springs are made of cheap material and are not strong at all. We had to install 2 and in some cases 3 per door in order to make them self-close. I am talking about light, hollow-core, regular-size residential exterior doors. On a heavy, steel, or any 7+ feet tall door, this spring would be useless. 2. Within less than a week, a great number of the springs had lost their pushing force. The plastic end-guards had deteriorated on 4-5 of the units and the metal tips underneath had scratched deep into the door paint. That is a problem, especially when your door is painted white because the steel makes dark semi-circular lines in two spots. I guess the product would fit certain situations and might be useful for very light residential doors which need just a tiny bit of a nudge and which are used only on few occasions per year. But do not buy these thinking it would give you some heavy-duty, durable, long-term solution to a door problem. It is not built for that. It is light-weight, cheap, non-durable door spring, which fails very quickly. I returned one or two packages which were still in good shape. And I still have a trash bag full of streched-out, partially damaged product. If someone wants them for free, just contact me and pay shipping. I have about a dozen to dispose of.

Do not buy these for a normal household door and hinge....they are ludicrously oversized and cannot possible fit into ANY standard door with jam and typical hinges. Take a clue from products that have LOTS of pictures of simple spring's construction, but no pictures whatsoever of them installed in the intended structure. The legs are 2 1/4" inches long, rendering them unable to fit within the confines of any door jam (unless you have 2x4 sized doors). The interior diameter of the springs "circle" is at least 3/4" of an inch.....which would require your door to have a 1/2 inch long "flat spot" on the corners for it to close without splintering wood. But that spring IS sturdy....it ain't gonna break! Sadly, I seriously doubt it is "chrome" either (you know what happens when chrome plate a spring, right, then twist it repeatedly???) This was a good one on me. I will find something to do with them; they are so huge I may actually try them on shed door, if I can find one with big enough "proud" hinges that have 3/4 inch thick pins. LOL I challenge the seller to show a picture of one installed on any normal door.

If you want this for a normal door hinge forget it. It’s two or three times the size of normal hinge pin. Total waste of time. I have never seen hinge pins as big as this is made for.

I bought these to hopefully keep from telling the kids 100 times a day to close the exterior doors to the house. I installed three. This was in May 2023. The rubber on all of them failed within the first few months. All began scratching the paint off the doors. Today, February 2024, one of the springs failed, broke, and shot a piece of itself across the garage. That was dangerous and could have caused injury. Luckily, no one was hurt. I’m am going to try the spring hinges now and replace the two remaining springs. These were easy to install and did the trick, but only lasting 9-10 months, it’s not what I was hoping for. They did close the doors and saved me the increased AC/heating bill costs.

I was looking for an easy way to keep my office door most of the way shut but not fully and have animals that like to come check in and hang out through the day. I didn't want to shut the door fully and hear the dogs whining or have to get up each time one of them would come bursting into the room. For these to work you need to remove or partially remove a door pin so a hammer and punch or something like that is needed. The spring part goes over the pin and gets bent open in a way that it is keeping pressure on the door so it will spring it back to the closed position when it is opened. It works well but depending on how open the door is and how quickly it is opened it will end up fully shutting the door a lot of the time. Having this introduced another problem I hadn't thought of. Now my dogs can get in the room but I have to get up to let them out as the pressure on the door is too much for them to nose it open. Overall I am satisfied with the product, the price, and the outcome.

These little guys are a great deal. In the interest of saving money and natural resources, I only heat/cool 2 rooms in my house. So it's super important that those rooms remain as tightly sealed as reasonably possible. One of my doors does a poor job of closing all the way when you give it a shove but it doesn't start to open again for a few seconds so you don't know it didn't close until you're halfway across the room. Or you don't notice at all and sits there, open, venting all you're warm/cool air out into the hot/cold house. Very annoying. So I looked up self-closers. I thought I'd be stuck with big, expensive, commercial device that would be massive overkill for my little hollow-core door. But I found a closer by Astra called the Gibcloser. And that works great and I'm happy with it. But I've also heard they can wear out kind of quickly, depending on how tightly you've got the spring wound. So I sanded down every place the door or striker plate rubbed and oiled the hinges and the opener mechanism. Still, it wouldn't close the door all the way without cranking up the tension in the closer way up and then it closed the door and also slammed it. Well, when I was checking out from the closer purchase, I looked over the 'What people who bought this also bought that...', section and I saw these. They looked too simple. A device like this would be too easy. There's gotta be a catch. But, no, they work exactly as advertised. So I picked them up as a sort of 'Plan B' and for use in other parts of the house. Right now, it's working in concert with the Astra unit but I'm going to try it out alone. If it can't quite close the door alone, I'll add a second spring on another hinge and that should be more than enough torque to close my door. If I had seen these first I would have just tried them and saved a few bucks. But, I also like the setup I have now. The two work well together. I'm sure I'll be purchasing more of there in the future.

If you’re looking to close a battleship door, this product is for you! The first time I tried it I let it slip slightly and it snapped on my finger. Don’t do that. It hurts. The second attempt was less painful, but before I finished installing it I could hear the wood fibers of the door trim crushing under the power of the spring. Next I glued some leather to a popsicle stick to protect the wood of the trim and and a second one for the door. This worked well to protect both and the spring functioned as designed. It promptly slammed the door so hard I was concerned about damage. This doesn’t even address that the hole through the spring is large enough I could fit two hinge pins through it with room to spare. Just not a good design. The product is well made and seems to be of quality materials. The chrome finish is nice. It seems like it was a spring meant for some other purpose that didn’t sell well so was rebranded for residential doors. I do not recommend it for interior wood trimmed doors. Might be ok for industrial metal trimmed/framed doors.

Good quality and gets the job done, maybe a little too well, slams the door pretty hard and the metal digs into the door after a while, the black rubber peice wears down over time.