Fixing Wooden Door Hinges That Are Stripped

How to fix a stripped screw hole.

Fixing wooden door hinges that are stripped.

How to tighten stripped hinge screws open the door wide and insert a wedge under the bottom outside corner to level it. One day monkey boy decided to swing with his full weight hangi. Push 1 end of the piece of wooden dowel into 1 of the stripped holes. How to repair stripped screw holes for a door hinge.

The wooden dowel will plug the stripped hole essentially giving you a fresh surface to reattach the hinge to. In an independent test by a 3rd party screw it again showed it can withstand a pull force of close to 300 pounds for the largest size screw hole. This is not how i usually would do this fix but thought people would like the mi. These products are made with small wood particles bonded together with glue and resins and they can break or badly tear out when screwed joints are stressed.

The wrong way is a temporary fix not cool. Fix it the right way not the wrong way. A how to video my first of many to come looking forward to sharing. The screw it again anchor is the one and only wood anchor fastener engineered to fix stripped screw holes in all types of wood mdf plywood and particle boards in less than a minute.

I am the father of 2 young kids henceforth known as monkey boy and disaster girl as they break stuff around the house i try to fix it. If the hinge and jamb are painted cut the paint around the leaf with a utility knife. We ve all had the problem of a screw getting pulled right out of a hole and stripping out the wood that should be holding it. Maybe the kids swung on a gate and pulled the hinge screws out or a cupboard door was swung too wide and the screws pulled right out.

Particleboard and mdf medium density fiberboard are particularly susceptible to stripped screw holes due to how they are engineered. Remove the screws that hold the loose hinge leaf to the door jamb. This makes the standard stick fill fixes ineffective.