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I have bought a house full of doors to replace.
I order from the big box. It took me a couple doors to realize that a
prehung door == stoned college kid assembling my door. I did not
buy the cheap ones either. These are 200-400 interior doors and
500-700 exterior.
I do not think one of them was hung correctly. All are related to
hinge installation. Hinges crooked or not fully seated in mortises.
Mortises too shallow or too deep. All of which you end up with a
crooked door hanging in a perfectly level and plumb door jamb.
I am not a carpenter, so this may be a hack or not advisable....but If
you cannot make the hinge side of the jamb plumb again. You can try
tapering the mortises on the jamb.
I have become a master at fixing bad installs just by looking at the
hinges. Some adjustments to hinge mortise depth and alignment,
can produce miracles and might allow you correct what might seem
UN-correctable. A guess is to increase the depth of the top mortise
on the jamb. If there is a middle hinge, detach it until you find the
right depth for the top, then apply half the depth to the middle
mortise.
If the door itself is falling appart and your house is settling or
shifting, this fix may not help long term.
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