Spring Hinge Door Closer, Fits on Most Door Butt Hinge Pins, 4 Pack

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.

The media could not be loaded. Great product! Closes door quickly. Highly recommend!

I'm 70 and the spring was to strong. Being strong is good but my strength to install was not their

I was buying this for my cats , to keep the door closed after the go back and forth. But this is too strong they don’t even able to open the door

One spring firmly closes my heavy steel garage door!It was pretty simple to attach to the hinge pin on the door.I would recommend putting it on the top most hinge to keep it out of direct line of sight.So it fits good and it does not add noise as the door closes. It works well.It is pretty light and there is nothing to adjust.HOWEVER, it has also rubbed the paint off of my steel door after about only a week.It does come with a piece of heat shrink tubing that protected the door until the powerful spring recently squished it from between the spring and the door.I am going to get some polyethylene 1/4" id tubing and force it into the spring where the heat shrink tubing was. I am hoping that this will solve the issue.But I am certain that it will look like something cobbled together in the barn by my father. In other words ... Ugly.But it does keep the cats from wandering out the door into traffic.So ... 3 Stars

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.

I had a basement door that would get left open and the animals would get locked in the basement accidentally all the time. They also learned how to open the door and then they’d get stuck on the other side. This was a b-tch to squeeze and install but once it was on it was FABULOUS no one getting locked in the basement accidentally anymore and no one going in basement that shouldn’t be.Yea it’s sooooo hard to squeeze and get in place. I don’t care if it mars the paint. It hasn’t but I saw that in other reviews. I just care that my animals are safe and this is PERFECT! Also it doesn’t slam- yes it closes but it’s not a massive slam so that’s nice too.

This door closer hinge thing works great, but had too much tension in the spring for my dog to open and close the door, so I made my own out of a large binder clip and a rubber band. Looks like crap, but it works and still allows my dog to come and go as she pleases without getting hit in the butt by the door. I realize that my case is unique, so I'd still recommend this product. 5 stars.

These work way better than I thought they would, absolutely great. Had a mudroom door that occasionally wouldn't latch during the weather change and it'd sometimes swing open on it's own if we forgot to lock it. Put two on, and it now closes the door strong enough to latch it every time - but is still easy to push open. Install was super quick, took 5 minutes without a helper.The trick was to space the arms out against the door, then push inwards so it flattened with one hand while I was free to re-install the pin with the other.For anyone pointing out the potential for damage - yeah it's going to rub against the paint unless you put padding or tape underneath, but it's a miracle it works so well for so cheap. And they sent me 4 when I only needed two. Great stuff, takes the stress away from wondering if the door is closed - it always is.

Did not fit any of my doors

I’ve installed 2 of these. They do a really good job of closing doors fully but not too fast. Amazingly simple. It requires a bit of force to twist the spring when you first install. But have been working great. I have spares in case they break - they are getting used multiple times every day.

Didn't fit my interior door.

Used firniture pads to protect the door . Works fine