|
Doors have many uses, they are used on houses and buildings to keep the door ways locked up and some doors are use as decoration, for cabinetry, to keep rooms divided and more. Long ago pretty much all the doors many houses and buildings had wooden doors and even these days many still do. But when anything that is made out of wood, in time wood does crack, rot, get holes, dented and even where the hinges are connected, the screw holes can get stripped. The screw holes can get stripped, because of the doors being used a lot and or the house(s) settling. If you have any room doors in your house, cabinetry or whatever has wooden doors and the doors don't shut right or the doors wiggle and make a noise when opening and shutting the doors. The problem most likely is that the hinge screws need to be tightened up or the door hinge screw holes are stripped. The tools you need for this project is either a Philips head screw driver, flat head screw driver or a power screw driver to make it easier to undo the screws with, a utility knife and a piece of scrap wood to cut shavings off with. What you do is have your tools handy open the door all the way, this way you can tighten the screws or undo the screws easy to repair the stripped screw holes. Try to tighten the screws in first, if the screws keep spinning, this means the screw holes are stripped. Do this to all the screws first to figure out which screw holes are stripped and need to be repaired. Leave the screws out of the holes that are stripped for repair. If there are stripped screw holes go to get your utility knife and the scrap piece of wood and shave of a big enough shaving to fit in the hole then try to screw the screw back in. If the screw fits tight you’re done, but if not then you need to shave off a bigger piece of wood. What you are trying to do is just make it so the screw tightens in the hole tight like new. Now if all the screw holes are stripped on a heavy bedroom door. What you do is put something under the door to keep the door up. I would use a solid object that fits perfectly in the gap under the door, so you can undo the screws, hold the door up while undoing the screws and lift the door off after. To fix the stripped skew holes just reread the above and when all the screw tighten up like new, lift the door back on the object that you had the door on and align the hinges holes up with the doors screw holes and reattach the screws. Be careful when lifting heavy objects and using power tools.
Related Articles -
How, to, fix, stripped, hinge, screw, holes, in, wooden, doors,
|
