People are only just discovering little springs behind doors have 'extra' use

There are many things around your home that you may not actually know the use for.

One of these things might be those little springs on the bottom of your walls behind the doors throughout your property.

You may think that they are simply there to protect your walls and paintwork, preventing doors from bashing against them.

Despite the spring doing a good job of stopping dents and scratches - making that satisfying pinging noise in the process - one social media user has actually revealed another use.

The 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 - reports The Mirror.

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."

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

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, then release.

The stopper at the end will stop the door from closing.

Since being posted, the clip has gone viral, amassing 1.5 million views and almost 1,000 comments from people who couldn't believe they were only just finding out about this.

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."

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

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 anothe person.

Try it out for yourselves and let us know in the comments whether it worked for you.

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