A door repaired promptly restores a boundary that everybody had been compensating for.

Anything broken in a shared space redistributes work. A door that will not close means people lower their voices, move their conversations, remember not to lean on it, and explain it to visitors. None of that gets counted as effort, because each instance is tiny and nobody records it. Fixing the door does not just restore a door; it gives back all the small adjustments that had been running in the background for weeks.

Look for the thing in your house or workplace that everyone has learned to work around. Repairing it is smaller than the accumulated accommodation, and the relief afterwards is out of proportion to the job.