Gap at lower part of UPVC door

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The bottom right of my front door (circled red in the attached photo) has a gap larger than a Credit card. In the winter, you can feel the cold blowing through. I have tried the following:


  • Replaced both the seals on the door and frame.
  • Adjusted the Cam on the door edge.
  • The butt hinges don’t appear to have any adjustment for that plane, but have attempted to adjust them regardless.
The door is around 14 years old and on a house I recently bought, so have no previous experience with it. The rest of the door is fine.



Any advice on adjustment or repair would be welcome
 

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Is the door bent?

If not you could move the dead latch slightly to pull it in more. It has no adjustment (cheapo).
 
Door is straight, as is the frame. I noticed that when closing, the bottom right goes slightly out of shape. I've adjusted the deadlatch to no avail.

So as a last resort I moved the part the cam locks into (pic 3) further towards the outside by around 2mm. Shuts fine now :)

The irony is these were not cheap doors and windows. 18 houses were built and were submitted into home builder of the year, so they used quite decent materials. The builder won (in the news etc). They went to town on these properties, mine is the only house with this defect.....bugger.
 
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