Repair Cabinet Door Hinge Holes

A quick convenient cure can be found just inside one of the cabinets.

Repair cabinet door hinge holes.

After searching the web i couldn t find a simple solution to repairing the stripped screws on our crappy particle board cabinets in the kitchen. So if you swing the door open too fast the force can rip the hinge screw right out of the cabinet wall. Cabinets made from particleboard work great in utility and laundry rooms and they re fairly inexpensive. This is how i fixed my bathroom door.

But particleboard has a major weakness it doesn t hold screw threads very well. Unless they re tightened immediately the screws will enlarge and strip the holes until it s impossible to tighten them. Repair a cabinet hinge screw hole with a plug. 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.

Many forums said to use a wood dowel with a hole drilled in but then you have the potential risk of sp. If all the hinges have loose screws it will be easier to just completely remove the door. One day monkey boy decided to swing with his full weight hangi. 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.

How to repair stripped screw holes for a door hinge. If the door functions correctly with only two hinges the hinge you removed is probably faulty.