jeffw
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:05 AM |
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Interior door furniture screw issue
I'm sure someone will know what to do about this. I have a number of door handles (normal brass victorian type B&Q ones) where the 4
screws holding them on will not tighten in the wood anymore (in fact you can push some in with your finger).
Obviously this means the door handles are hanging off on occasions. Given that I can't use much bigger screws ( they are 1" already) what
would the best solution be? The doors are heavy duty Wicks interior doors and are about 8 years old. It is a problem with about 4-5 of the 14 doors
in the house.
Any ideas?
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Macbeast
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:13 AM |
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Rawlplug the holes ?
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jossey
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:14 AM |
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you can get strong epoxy style glue from screwfix etc when seals the holes then you just re screw the screws back into the wood.
thats what i have had to do in the past as i had the same issue. I then got slightly wider screws with better threads and they fit well.
hope that helps.
http://www.langtoninfo.co.uk/showitem_imagedetail.aspx?isbn=B003ZUXQQC
you will need to strip the handles off to fill it and leave over night to dry some say 1 hour but i dont trust that so bit of extra time to dry in the
holes.
I have seen the joiner at my house in the past do it with wood glue which im sure will work but the dry times are longer....
Thanks
David Johnson
Building my tiger avon slowly but surely.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:16 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Macbeast
Rawlplug the holes ?
This would seem best solution, as glue might mean making them worse if you ever want to remove them.
You can get quite stuby small plugs, so just drill out the holes to suit and your sorted.
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daviep
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:17 AM |
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It's quite simple to re-pack the holes and then re-drill.
Get a piece of scrap wood or soft dowel and with a knife carve some tapered plugs which are a bit bigger than the hole. Squirt a bit of wood glue in
to the hole / over plug and then tap the plug into the hole.
Once the glue has set cut off the head and sand flush and you are ready to re-drill for screws.
Davie
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gazza285
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:32 AM |
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You are all more technical than me, I just shove matchsticks in.
DO NOT PUT ON KNOB OR BOLLOCKS!
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stevebubs
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 09:36 AM |
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Many options, my usual route is the woodfiller one.
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Peteff
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 11:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by gazza285
You are all more technical than me, I just shove matchsticks in.
Ditto  Not his one though
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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wicket
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 11:34 AM |
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Match sticks for me as well
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designer
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 11:42 AM |
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If the door is solid, matchsticks will solve the problem. If they are the new, cheap, hollow doors fixing would be required.
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snapper
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 11:51 AM |
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Other option is to drill out the faceplates for wider screws
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roadrunner
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 12:56 PM |
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Fill holes to two part wood or panel filla, then drill a pilot hole smaller than the screw so it doesn't cause more break up of the door
material.
Brad.
24 years exp as a carpenter.
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jamesbond007ltk
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| posted on 5/1/12 at 03:40 PM |
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Not sure if this will work for you but I had a similar problem at my mums and was able to find some "cabinet connector bolts" (one side is
a bolt the other a threaded socket). The holes on the two handles were opposite each other so I drilled right the way through, insert the two halves
of the connector bolt.
Work well as it does not rely on the wood providing a fixing.
They also come in a variety of lengths and sizes and you can et some with countersunk heads too.
Rich
Edited as I've just re-read your post and realised you have brass handles. Can't say I have ever seen these bolts in brass so may not be
any help, sorry.
[Edited on 5/1/12 by jamesbond007ltk]
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