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Changing handles on wardrobes and presses

Jade2015 · 2019-07-13 21:37:26

I want to change the handles on kitchen and bedroom presses. The current handles are really long and any of the nice handles that I want to buy are shorter. The current handles have two screw holes. My question is. How do I fill in the holes on laminated/formica type wood. I was thinking of filling the holes in with…

13-07-2019 9:37pm

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Jade2015

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I want to change the handles on kitchen and bedroom presses. The current handles are really long and any of the nice handles that I want to buy are shorter.
The current handles have two screw holes.
My question is. How do I fill in the holes on laminated/formica type wood. I was thinking of filling the holes in with resin/epoxy and colouring the
resin with acrylic paint. Presses are cream
Anyone any better ideas or is there stuff made for this purpose?

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#2 13-07-2019 11:26pm

the_pen_turner

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i would fill with a good 2 part filler . mask off the area around the holes first and slowly build up to flush so you wont have to sand very much. then paint to match.

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