Cabinet Door Screws Keep Coming Loose

Using glue and shims to repair loose hinge screws.

Cabinet door screws keep coming loose.

Unless they re tightened immediately the screws will enlarge and strip the holes until it s impossible to tighten them. If they do then the screw holes need repair. This happened to my back door this year and i finally decided to take an hour and fix it. You can see in the image below the loose screw was on my door lock striker.

Loose hinges can cause a door to stick bind or scrape the floor. Open the door wide and insert a wedge under the bottom outside corner to level it. How to tighten stripped hinge screws. A quick convenient cure can be found just inside one of the cabinets.

Lucky for you it is easy to tighten loose hinges and make your doors work like new. The small screws used to secure kitchen cabinet door hinges to the face frames of cabinets often work their way loose over time. I see this often on kitchen cabinet hinges and doors regular door hinges and areas that get worked or moved a lot. If you can t get the hinge secured back the screws all the way out take off the hinge and look at the wood beneath it.

Open the door grasp it. Let the door hang by itself. Most knobs and pulls are attached on the backside of your cupboard doors and drawers with a standard length threaded screw. It kept backing out on its own.

Ten cent fix for a loose knob. Remove the screws that hold the loose hinge leaf to the door jamb. If a screw is inserted into a substance that cannot provide sufficient friction it will be loose. If the hinge and jamb are painted cut the paint around the leaf with a utility knife swing the leaf away from the jamb.

If the door is flush and parallel with other doors but too high or low use the mounting screws to raise or lower the mounting plates. Most hinge problems can be solved with nothing more than a screwdriver. Loosen the screws at both hinges slide the door up or down and tighten the screws. First check that the hinge screws are tight.

When the door or drawer is not thick enough for the screw to tighten the knob flush against it grasping that perpetually wobbly knob each day can be an enduring pain. Some mounting plates adjust by turning a single screw. For example a screw installed into wood that has worn down over time and no longer maintains the opposite thread pattern from the original installation of the screw will not provide sufficient friction to keep a screw tight. If the loose holes are in a solid piece of wood like a door frame drill them out and fill them with wooden dowels to create a new surface for the screws to go into.