Repair screw stripped wood in under 15 minutes!

often after years of use of a door handle things go a little wonky sometimes what happens is do you got a screw loose but it's also cracked the the door and this is a solid core door and so what we're going to do is work on repairing this and also fixing this crack so watch this i mean this is bad enough that i can just go like this and not even unscrew it i can just pull that straight out i don't have it screws fall out all the time the world's an imperfect place give it to me bender but i can't remove this piece because it connects inside to the door handle so let me take that apart and show you what it's going to look like now i'm going to show you those are long screws that have to go a distance there to get inside and reach to this horizontal piece and then on the other side is your door handle that you turn and when you turn that it turns this mechanism to open so now that we've removed now that we can remove both of those i can easily pull this out all right let's assess the damage and see what things are looking like man look at that it's totally disintegrated this piece in here and that piece right there is just blasted too so how are you going to be able to get a screw to hold in there when i can see right through it i mean it's just destroyed we have a screw that goes right here and parallel with that we have a screw that goes in right here in addition if you go up there's a parallel screw here and a parallel screw there that begins to weaken the wood you can see that you can see that crack that actually follows the line of where the screws have gone in what i want to repair first is this crack because once we've got that all closed up then i can work on repairing these and i'm going to show you two different ways of repairing this you'll see that this one is a simple hole that can be repaired pretty easily this one's missing material and that's going to be a little harder so i'll show you a way that we can fill that in and still give it some grip some teeth uh some place for you the the teeth of the screw to bind in there first thing you want to do is this we're going to put a little piece of cardboard here to protect this from any damage now i'm going to get a longer screwdriver that gives me some leverage so that i can bend on it and i actually want to open that up a little bit see how that opens that crack up just a bit what i'm going to do here is i'm going to have a tough time getting glue or wood glue in here because it's pretty it's pretty thick and we're not going to be able to pry that in there so don't be afraid to even use easy glue strong enough to hold this man suspended in mid-air bonds almost anything all right so we're going to pry that open give it a good opening there and i'm going to start to apply some of this as i pinch it you'll notice that some of it starts to come out which means i've got enough in there for it to grip now at this point what i'm going to do is use my vice grip to really close it up and down this one i want to kind of go on the edge because that's where the wood really is okay that one's gripped the solid wood where i'm wanting it to adhere there we go and i put my rubber glove on just because i don't want to get any of that rubber or that glue on my fingers and at this point i can use that rubber glove to kind of clean up any of the excess that i had done okay while that's finishing up drying i'm going to go ahead and repair this bottom one i'm going to show you a simple technique to fill in one that just basically has a hole that's been stripped out all you're going to need for this one is i mean literally you can use school glue if you want to um i do prefer wood glue some kind of wood glue because the wood glue usually has kind of wood fiber mixed into the glue and it's usually more a little stronger so what i've done is i've gone ahead and put a little glob of that on a on a disposable plate and then i'm just gonna go and get a match and rub it around just a little bit on that and what i'm trying to do is fill in that vacancy right there so i'm going to go like that and push it in there and i'm going to push it and turn it in to fill in that screw space now there's a lot of play in there and it's a mess so i'm going to break that piece off and add a little bit more of the material push that in and break that off still some space in there so i'm going to go ahead and push that in and break that off break the wrist and walk away break the wrist walk away now that whole area that vacancy is completely full not just of material from the matchstick but also it's filled with glue so it's going to hold together really well and take that screw really well when we go to fill that back in if you find that you still have some space left over feel free to do the same process but with the toothpick and see if there's any more of the void that you can feel kind of probe around and see if there's any more void there's a little piece so i'll fill that in break that off and leave the material in there there's a little piece and it's just a little bit narrower so now i've got that thing totally filled in the top one however that's never going to work there's just no way to fill in this big gap right here there's nothing we can do to repair that with with sticking matchsticks or toothpicks in there it's just too much material missing so we're going to go a different direction this way what we're going to use here is one of my favorite repair tools that we often don't use on uh on on our homes but bondo bondo works great for this the reason is this you could fill that in with caulk but it doesn't really grip really well it's not going to grip in the screw is not going to have anything to bite into you could fill this in with plaster or like vinyl spack or something but that dries so dry that after hitting and jarring after a period of time you'll feel it all flake out [Music] and it'll just leave a void there again it won't stick to it what you need is something that's going to fill that not expand not shrink and that it's also going to give you something to bite into and it flexes a little bit it's got a little bit of give so every time the door shuts it's going to just be malleable i love bondo when it comes to repairing home stuff again because of the fact that it's easy to work with it's flexible it dries very quickly because it's a chemical reaction it's not air dried and the other part is that it's it's really easy to work with you can cut it and trim it well as well as sand it really easily so it it's faster work time easier cleanability it's resilient and takes the shock of doors and so forth so let me show you how to use bondo and bondo is the name brand but there's also sorts all sorts of brands you can find your different brands um to work with it's not going to take a lot you saw the size of that hole in there it's not very big and so i'm going to go ahead and put some of the the gray portion on there and then this is the harder hardener now you'll notice that when you get a can of this it's a huge can and a small tube of hardener these are not meant to be equal parts not by any means the more hardener you put in the quicker this will dry so literally with something that small i'm going to take something even less than the size of a pea just like that just on the side just like that just a tiny bit and that's going to be enough for me to mix together and you really want to mix this thoroughly make sure that it's all mixed together that there's no gray spreading in between that it becomes kind of a homogeneous or um color that all that is mixed in that i'm not seeing striations of pink and i'm not seeing striations of gray but it's all mixed together you'll notice i'm using kind of a just a disposable knife makes it really easy that's it that's it right there and uh don't be afraid to work with this with your hand that's why i've got a glove on all right it's this simple i'm just gonna grab some of this right off the plate with my finger and i'm just going to squeeze it in there that's it in fact i want to make sure that i have a little bit more so that i can negatively remove it instead of having to add it that's the beautiful thing about bondo is i don't have to do this in multi layers i can go thick okay that's it i'm going to let that dry and this is going to be a lot faster drying time than if you were to put some other in fact that will dry before this one does 12 seconds later while this is still a little bit moist you're not completely dried is a good time to kind of come in carefully with the razor and kind of knock it down just a little bit you want to take off any of those you know big age edges or big protrusions or whatever the case may be i don't think this is going to even take any sanding i can put it right back in just like that so you can use a power screwdriver to put this back in but you got to be careful you don't want to over tighten because over tightening can actually just lead to the thing cracking again so since it's been damaged i can start it there but i'm going to actually finish it by tightening it there boy i got to tell you that has a lot more grip on it now one of the things i'm going to do before i put this in the bond area is i'm going to actually just pre-drill just pre-drill a little bit of a hole that way that'll give something for this to guide through to make sure that it doesn't spread back out past his borders here so here we go it's gripping really well it's got something to hold on to again just like the other one i don't want to finish this one i'm going to finish it by hand just so that i don't over tighten and cause this to crack all over again so that's all done and that's in there anyway i put that back on while i drill down but that's in there really firm it doesn't wiggle now that's in there totally firm do our pieces back on make sure that this part is tight on both sides but not over tight i'm 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Channel: DIYwithConfidence

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Id: nWksLleyfkA

Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 24 2020