How To Fix Loose Door Hinge And Screws Are Tight

A loose butt hinge will cause a door to hang crooked and stick.

How to fix loose door hinge and screws are tight.

First check that the hinge screws are tight. Open the door grasp it. Loose hinges can cause a door to stick bind or scrape the floor. So for easy fixing you have to install longer screws of the same gauge.

Lucky for you it is easy to tighten loose hinges and make your doors work like new. If the screws in your door hinge have become loose and frequently require tightening or have been tightened so often that they no longer stay securely in place causing the door to sag most likely the wood sections the stiles that frame the inside of the door need reinforcement. Hinge screws are too short to hold very well which makes the effort of fixing loose screws less easy. Fix it the right way not the wrong way.

But if the screws can t be tightened because the holes are stripped try this. This happened to my back door this year and i finally decided to take an hour and fix it. The wrong way is a temporary fix not cool. So anyway it doesn t hold screws very well besides this hinge screws are very short.

If all the hinges have loose screws it will be easier to just completely remove the door. I see this often on kitchen cabinet hinges and doors regular door hinges and areas that get worked or moved a lot. Most hinge problems can be solved with nothing more than a screwdriver. Sometimes retightening the hinge screws is all it takes to fix the problem.

Open the door wide and insert a wedge under the bottom outside corner to level it. Door stiles the wooden side frames inside the door aren t very deep which is part of the reason hinges become. 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. It kept backing out on its own.