Kitchen cabinet stripped hole repair?

OU812

The door on one of the kitchen cabined has come off on a hinge (kids!).

It had come off previously & I stuffed the hole with matchsticks to fix it. This worked for about three months & it came out again.

Whats the options for fixing? Material is MDF & it's the "hole" side of the hinge.

Can I use a cut down rawl plug, or possibly stuff it again, using glue this time to build a better hold?

banie01

2 Part epoxy resin, mix enough to fill the hole, apply it. leave to set and then just screw into it.

antiskeptic

OU812 wrote: »

The door on one of the kitchen cabined has come off on a hinge (kids!).

It had come off previously & I stuffed the hole with matchsticks to fix it. This worked for about three months & it came out again.

Whats the options for fixing? Material is MDF & it's the "hole" side of the hinge.

Can I use a cut down rawl plug, or possibly stuff it again, using glue this time to build a better hold?

Is there a cabinet beside it? Longer, larger screw - but not so long as you penetrate through the second cabinet. Angle the screw up/down- sideways a bit to go into fresh material. Best to pilot drill a tiny hole to lay a path for the new screw if your not confident of using skill to achieve the direction you want.

A bit of tec7 on the hinge plate will add strength too.

CJhaughey

I used epoxy glue into the hole and pushed a load of matchsticks cut to length into the hole which displaced some epoxy, I then used some tape over the hole until it set.
Clean the excess off with a sharp blade and then screw as normal.
It seems to be a very strong repair so far.

L1011

Gluing a dowel in (shaved down if need be) has never failed to work for me if a hole is too big for matchsticks. Half the interior door handles in my house were hanging off when I bought it and had to do this