How To Repair A Loose Door Hinge

Loose hinges tin cause a door to stick, bind, or scrape the floor. Lucky for you, it is piece of cake to tighten loose hinges and make your doors work similar new. Well-nigh swivel problems can be solved with zero more than a screwdriver.

Start, cheque that the swivel screws are tight. Open the door, grasp it past the lock edge, and move it up and down. If yous encounter motion at the hinge screws, they need to be retightened.

If the hinge screws have been loose for only a brusque time, you may need to tighten them with a screwdriver. Just when hinge screws are left loose for a long time, the constant movement of the hinge plate and screws enlarges the screw holes. Eventually, the holes become and so large that the screws can't stay tight. The result: stripped screws that are completely useless!

If the door still moves even a tiny bit after you tighten its swivel screws, yous take to repair the enlarged spiral holes. Repair ane screw hole at a time so that you don't have to remove the door. Here's how:

Remove the loose screw.
Dip the blank end of a wooden match in some carpenter's glue and tap it with a hammer every bit far into the spiral hole as it will become.

If the screw is large, you may have to put several gum-coated matches in the hole.
Break or cut off the lucifer(es) flush with the hinge plate and discard the heads.
After you lot've filled the void in the screw hole with the wooden match(es), drive the screw into the hole with a screwdriver.
Remove the adjacent screw and repair its pigsty, standing until you lot take fixed all the enlarged spiral holes.

In identify of a friction match, y'all can utilise wooden golf tees coated with glue to plug a stripped screw pigsty. Golf game tees are tapered, so they fit hands into the screw pigsty. Let the gum dry then cut off the protruding part of the tee.