Yes, that would definitely work. I should have said in the video that if you don't have a plug cutter (as I imagine most wont) you could just cut a dowel and use a drill the same size.
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THANK YOU for making this video!! I had a side door in my kitchen with this issue for about 5 years or more now. I haven't been able to open it or anything. A guy came out for an estimate to replace it, over $4,000! I found your video yesterday and today I fixed the door exactly how you showed. You are a life saver. Thank you so much!!! I wish I could give you a hug hahaha!!
Yes, I've used that approach in other situations. This one was a bit unusual because two of the three screws essentially went into the space between the trim board and the door frame (not a good design, but since it was done in 1848, I'm not sure who to complain to). Using the dowel pegs gave something more solid for the screws to hold to, with the glue holding the dowel peg to both sides of the silly joint.
This you could do with a drill bit and a matching diameter dowel, so all you'd need is a drill and a saw or chisel. I've also seen it done on a smaller scale by just driving golf tees into the existing drill holes.
I bought new oil finish everything for all my doors. Every hinge is like yours so I was going to do the golf tee trick, but my craptacular wood around the jam is so soft a fingernail can dent it. I went to the orange big box and got 1/2" oak dowel and WAM, a new jam foundation. Now only 8 more doors to do. Thanks, you saved a lot of words my wife hates.
Nope. This is the 10th video (so far) how to fix the hinge on the door FRAME side. Everyone knows this fix because the frame is a solid piece of wood. Why not show the difficult fix on the actual DOOR side where the door is hollow inside? I've used those plastic drywall screw insets to varying, sometimes lasting, sometimes temporary success but I would like to know a more professional, longer lasting fix for HOLLOW door holes that have no backing to put dowels or toothpicks into. Not solid door frames. That's easy. Please. Where are the real fix-it men?
I mean, couldve just used toothpicks and woodglue in like 5 minutes. Couldve spent $0.60 on some new screws. But you have an attached woodshop you need to justify.
Didn't take much more than 5 minutes, and the fix will last generations. Toothpicks wouldn't work here. They would just split the trim away from the door frame.
@@SalemWoodworks My man, be aware that 90% of male population would't be able to pull this off (let alone female), and maybe that's an optimistic percentage. I'm starting to learn gladly!
Funny. When I made this video I thought it was a bit silly. It is now the most watched video on my channel. I guess I shouldn't assume the little things aren't interesting or useful.
and if you don't have a band saw and drill press with plug cutter you could buy 1/2" stock *hardwood* dowel for $2.50 at any hardware/big box store, cut to size to fill the holes?
True. I should have mentioned that. The plugs are better because the grain direction is aligned correctly. Cross grain glue joints will eventually fail, but your suggestion is a workable stopgap.
The same technique would work. Even a golf tee or toothpicks wedged into the screw holes might work on the door side. I needed the plugs on my frame because the screws hit on the gap between trim boards (which is unusual).
for the love of christ and jesus strip the paint from those hinges, oil them and put new stronger screws in if not original. It will last longer and look better
Still holding fine. Should be good for the next 170 years. You could just buy a dowel and cut to length. The grain direction wouldnt' be as ideal as a face-grain plug like I cut in the video, but I'm sure it would work.
Chunk of cherry....yea I wish I had that around. I am at the point where I need to make plugs and all I have lying around is redwood and cedar. I can't get myself to make plugs out if either of these...perhaps I am just being too perfectionist! Also my drilled holes in the old window hinge screw holes are a little deeper than the my plugs my plug cutter will make. Could I add some epoxy to fill the void in the bottom of the holes so that the new screws will have material to continue gripping after the new plug depth?
You could buy a dowel and cut sections. The grain is running the other direction that way, but it will still work. I've also seen people take an even simpler approach and drive some golf tees into the existing holes, cut those off, and then re-drill for screws.
Come on Lone Wolf... let's leave the politics out of it. They don't make things like they used to because they'd be too damn expensive if we did. The (other) doors I bought at Home Depot are solid wood and made in the US... but they don't have a through tenon.
@@SalemWoodworks I disagree. I'm a professional product designer, AKA industrial designer. I design products for a living. I'm the guy that does the sketching to come up with the aesthetics and then CAD/3d models the design and then goes to the manufacturing plants in China to craft the tooling that makes the designs/products. Besides all the human rights/quality control/environment violations that I've seen with my own eyes and those factories, it's the fact that we outsourced everything that has led to a lot of inferior and dangerous products being sold. those products do not last and break quickly and therefore end up in landfills and people just go and replace them with more garbage that ends up in landfills. It's something called sustainability. We could easily make products in America or any other country and still charge a fair price while producing a quality product. If you don't know the ins and outs of the manufacturing in China you have no idea the things they do there. I would gladly pay $50 to $100 more for certain things to know that they were properly made from sustainable resources. The goal isn't to live cheap it's to live well.
@@lonewolf3564 fair enough. Just a heavier vibe than I was going for here. I work for an engineering software company whose products are used worldwide, including in China. Like you, at least I'm blessed to have a job that I can do at home in these challenging times.
What kind of anchor do you have in mind? You could certainly glue in a short section of wood dowel instead of the face grain plugs I cut. Dowel are less ideal because they create a cross grain glue surface.
@@SalemWoodworks first, thank you for your video. I ended up going to the hardware store and buying some dowels . 👍🏽 thanks again. I really appreciate that. So does my wife lol
Thank you. My grandmother's door looks just like that qnd both hinges came off tonight and I don't even know what happened for it to be like that. I'm gonna tell her but she's gonna be so mad. But this was very helpful
In normal circumstances, I agree. In this case, because the screws are drilled in a bad spot (in the gap where the trim meets the door frame) adding the glued in dowel adds more strength.
It depends on the glue you're using, and it will be written on the bottle. In this case, I used Titebond II which sets in about an hour and is full strength in a day. The glue isn't really critical to the strength of this fix here though, so I wouldn't overthink it. Don't be too rough with the door for an hour and you should be fine with most wood glues.
True. An easy cheat that would be light on tools would be to just buy a small dowell and a drill bit to fit. All you'd need is a drill and a small saw.
Do you have a drill? Admittedly most don't have a plug cutter and a drill press, so buy a dowel and cut a short section as an alternative to the plug. Not that sophisticated...