Kitchen cupboard hinges loose.

psd99 · 19 Jun 2019 at 08:44

Hi,

I have a problem with one of the hinges in my kitchen.

The problem is as follows:

The people who installed my kitchen have made an error, the pilot holes they drilled appear to be too large resulting in the screw not getting tight back into the hole.

I had a think about this and filled the holes with wood filler, waited a day and then put the screws back in. It felt strong at the time for one of the screws the other was still not tightening up properly.

I got a feeling there will be more hinges these gits got wrong!

Today the hinge still feels a bit loose I think it will eventually come out like it did this week.

Also this is the end cupboard at the top of the kitchen and there is nothing to the right hand side of it except a window so putting a bit of wood there to screw into will not look very pretty at all.

Any suggestions on what I can do for a more longer term fix?

psd99 · 19 Jun 2019 at 08:45

just a thought , would those two screws come out
I wonder if I can get bigger screws here.

psd99 · 19 Jun 2019 at 09:23

what do u mean by wooden plug? is it like cutting a bit of wood for that hole, ramming them in and then screwing into the wood?

how will I cut a round with of wood like that though

psd99 · 19 Jun 2019 at 09:23

also now its good wood filler I will have to remove that first. hope it falls out

psd99 · 19 Jun 2019 at 09:48

gotcha thanks! will look out for them

psd99 · 19 Jun 2019 at 09:56

thanks do u think this is a common issue? and the fault of the installer?

I'm dissapointed with the people who installed the kitchen hardly been 2 years and some of the hinges are doing this already!

psd99 · 20 Jun 2019 at 11:54

I will see if my local hardware shop has dowels but I only need 2... maybe I will need more later on

never thought about matchsticks though lol wow

psd99 · 25 Jun 2019 at 08:25

fixed it with the wooden dowel method
it was a ba** a*** in the end!

3 out of the 4 screws are now strong, 1 of them at the bottom is still loose but I had to take the cupboard door out and that weakened the screws at the bottom

the problem I found was lining up the holes to match my pilot holes, next time I will draw a line on top of each hinge so I know exactly where it fits

I blame the installer one of them was about as useful as a one legged man in a bum kicking competition!
he was best skilled with hoover only he's clearly not drilled good pilot holes and I fear more fixes coming up!

psd99 · 25 Jun 2019 at 16:04

Mark A said:
As I said before, the pilot holes in the carcass are usually drilled from the factory with 5mm holes. They just used the wrong sized screw for the hole. You could have just used the correct screw and saved all that messing about.

but they have used that exact same screw on EVERY single hinge!

so you are sure that these are the correct screws?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SCREWS-KITCHEN-CABINETS-WARDROBES-CUPBOARD/dp/B01MSQDT11