Cabinet Door Screws Keep Coming Loose

First check that the hinge screws are tight.

Cabinet door screws keep coming loose.

Lucky for you it is easy to tighten loose hinges and make your doors work like new. 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. Loosen the screws at both hinges slide the door up or down and tighten the screws. If you want a quicker method that doesn t require boring out the holes try filling the stripped holes with golf tees matchsticks or toothpicks wood anchors or cyanoacrylate glue.

It kept backing out on its own. Check the fit of the door after each adjustment. Using glue and shims to repair loose hinge screws. Remove the screws that hold the loose hinge leaf to the door jamb.

Most hinge problems can be solved with nothing more than a screwdriver. Loose hinges can cause a door to stick bind or scrape the floor. If the hinge and jamb are painted cut the paint around the leaf with a utility knife swing the leaf away from the jamb. Most knobs and pulls are attached on the backside of your cupboard doors and drawers with a standard length threaded screw.

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. Unless they re tightened immediately the screws will enlarge and strip the holes until it s impossible to tighten them. 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. A quick convenient cure can be found just inside one of the cabinets.

Ten cent fix for a loose knob. 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. How to tighten stripped hinge screws. Some mounting plates adjust by turning a single screw.

I see this often on kitchen cabinet hinges and doors regular door hinges and areas that get worked or moved a lot. The small screws used to secure kitchen cabinet door hinges to the face frames of cabinets often work their way loose over time. You can see in the image below the loose screw was on my door lock striker. 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.

Open the door grasp it. Open the door wide and insert a wedge under the bottom outside corner to level it. If a screw is inserted into a substance that cannot provide sufficient friction it will be loose. This happened to my back door this year and i finally decided to take an hour and fix it.