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  • 18-02-2012 10:20pm
    #1
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭


    This cabinet door has come away a bit - the screws simply pulled out of the cabinet wall.

    Is there something I can put in to fix the loose wood? Some putty that'll harden but can be screwed into?

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  • #2
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Easiest fix would be to just unscrew the whole thing and move it up/down a few cm to screw it into a new location on the same pieces and fill in the holes with something if you're bothered.


  • #3
    whizbang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭whizbang


    looks like the hinges are rebated into the door - major surgery required to move.

    If the cabinet position permits, use longer screws

    btw Isopon car filler is good stuff.:eek:


  • #4
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    Did the exact same job a little while ago. Make little wooden dowls with a knife/chisel, tap into existing holes. Cut off the excess flush with the door using a chisel. You're now back to solid panel.
    Small pilot hole for screws and its sorted.


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I have other hinges but then I have to drill the holes for everything once again.
    I was hoping there was some putty, wood filler, whatnot that would bond inside the existing holes and could be screwed into.

    1.618 thanks, that would work if I wasn't such a lazy person :o

    Can I just fill with wood glue and let dry before screwing the screws in again?


  • #6
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    If you have any plastic plugs (the ones you use in walls)cut it down to fit and glue it in the hole.


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  • #7
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,401 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    What's on the other side of the cabinet? Is it exposed? You could put bolts right the way through.

    The other option is to use a strip of flat metal, bolt hinge to this, then make new holes to screw into cabinet. I have done this a few times, works great.

    The other method I've used is to get two pack appoxy resin and fill up the holes. When dry, the wood around it will be rock hard. Drill new holes in the apoxy and screw it home.


  • #8
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Thanks all. I got some of this stuff and filled the holes with it and clamped the bracket and screws in
    http://reviews.homebase.co.uk/1494-en_gb/454945/reviews.htm
    We'll see if it holds. Will leave the clamp 24h.


  • #9
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Yea the epoxy resin i would of went for also. Possibility might be to chase out a small square or rectangular area and epoxy in a piece of wood, and screw into that.

    Maybe what you`ve done will hold though.


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