How To Fix A Door Hinge Screws

The screws holding the top hinges carry most of the weight of the door and are almost always the first to pull out especially after they ve been repeatedly tightened over the years.

How to fix a door hinge screws.

If the door still moves even a tiny bit after you tighten its hinge screws you have to repair the enlarged screw holes. If all the hinges have loose screws it will be easier to just completely remove the door. If you are fixing just a few loose screw holes for something that has multiple hinges like a door you can put a wedge underneath it to support it while you unscrew the loose hinge and fix the stripped holes. Hinge screws with at least two 3 in.

Remove the loose screw. How you fix the steel door hinge depends on the amount of damage to the screw threads. 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. How to repair stripped screw holes for a door hinge.

This is how i fixed my bathroom door. Repair one screw hole at a time so that you don t have to remove the door. Stripped screws that are completely useless. But if the screws can t be tightened because the holes are stripped try this.

Through use the screws securing the hinge become loose. The best way to beef them up is to replace the standard 3 4 in. Sometimes retightening the hinge screws is all it takes to fix the problem. Open the door wide and insert a wedge under the bottom outside corner to level it.

Screws that go through the jambs and solidly anchor into the. The wrong way is a temporary fix not cool. Unlike wooden doors steel doors require a different approach to repair hinge screws that are pulled out of the door. Doors both hinges and locks kitchen and bathroom cabinets and just about anything else that is subject to movement or vibration.

Fix it the right way not the wrong way. One day monkey boy decided to swing with his full weight hangi. How to tighten stripped hinge screws.