Broken door kitchen cabinet advice.
Discussion
One of the kids has been climbing up the kitchen cabinets of my fitted kitchen. Unsurprisingly the door has given away as the metal hinge has pulled itself free of the cabinet, taking a load of the fibre board with it.
So there is nowhere to reattach the hinge. Any ideas folks?
Can it be filled with plastic wood and then screw the hinge back in.
So there is nowhere to reattach the hinge. Any ideas folks?
Can it be filled with plastic wood and then screw the hinge back in.
The only thing you could do is to re-site the hinge either above or below the area it has been ripped from, as no matter what you use to try to re-attach the door the chipboard has been damaged and will no longer have it's compressed strength to take the fixing screw.
Look out for a blum hinge hole cutter (usually 35mm but sometimes smaller)
http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A337794/Drill-Bits/Wo...
With a drill and the cutter, plunge it into the door and up to the depth of the original circular hinge depth, usually the depth or the metal cutter body it's self and then re-fix the screws either side of it. Measure up the other end and re-site the fixing base plate to the inside of the kitchen unit and Bobs your uncle.
Oh and I make my son sit and watch and help with the repair so he can understand why it's not the best thing to be doing in the first place.
It hasn't half cut down on those little accidents....
Good luck with it.
Look out for a blum hinge hole cutter (usually 35mm but sometimes smaller)
http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A337794/Drill-Bits/Wo...
With a drill and the cutter, plunge it into the door and up to the depth of the original circular hinge depth, usually the depth or the metal cutter body it's self and then re-fix the screws either side of it. Measure up the other end and re-site the fixing base plate to the inside of the kitchen unit and Bobs your uncle.
Oh and I make my son sit and watch and help with the repair so he can understand why it's not the best thing to be doing in the first place.
It hasn't half cut down on those little accidents....
Good luck with it.
I would be happy to glue the piece back in and re screw - can you clamp the piece in place around the neighbouring unit? I would use a mildly expanding polyurethane glue - that does need clamping!
Would also be worth sticking some longer screws in if you can (can the screw pass through this unit into the next one?)
If not then your only option is to move the hings.
Would also be worth sticking some longer screws in if you can (can the screw pass through this unit into the next one?)
If not then your only option is to move the hings.
One of these might well solve the problem, they are made for this job
http://www.woodfit.com/product_info.php?cPath=114_...
"isn't this melamine faced chipboard awful" pronounced in Irene Handl voice (Italian Job reference)
http://www.woodfit.com/product_info.php?cPath=114_...
"isn't this melamine faced chipboard awful" pronounced in Irene Handl voice (Italian Job reference)
CedGTV said:
The only thing you could do is to re-site the hinge either above or below the area it has been ripped from, as no matter what you use to try to re-attach the door the chipboard has been damaged and will no longer have it's compressed strength to take the fixing screw.
Look out for a blum hinge hole cutter (usually 35mm but sometimes smaller)
http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A337794/Drill-Bits/Wo...
With a drill and the cutter, plunge it into the door and up to the depth of the original circular hinge depth, usually the depth or the metal cutter body it's self and then re-fix the screws either side of it. Measure up the other end and re-site the fixing base plate to the inside of the kitchen unit and Bobs your uncle.
Oh and I make my son sit and watch and help with the repair so he can understand why it's not the best thing to be doing in the first place.
It hasn't half cut down on those little accidents....
Good luck with it.
Not sure if I'm reading the OP right, but I understood that the hinge had come off the carcass, not the door? If I'm right, then you won't need a hole cutter, as that is cut into the door not the carcass. Look out for a blum hinge hole cutter (usually 35mm but sometimes smaller)
http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A337794/Drill-Bits/Wo...
With a drill and the cutter, plunge it into the door and up to the depth of the original circular hinge depth, usually the depth or the metal cutter body it's self and then re-fix the screws either side of it. Measure up the other end and re-site the fixing base plate to the inside of the kitchen unit and Bobs your uncle.
Oh and I make my son sit and watch and help with the repair so he can understand why it's not the best thing to be doing in the first place.
It hasn't half cut down on those little accidents....
Good luck with it.
Griff Boy said:
Not sure if I'm reading the OP right, but I understood that the hinge had come off the carcass, not the door? If I'm right, then you won't need a hole cutter, as that is cut into the door not the carcass.
The problem is that if the carcase in the original hinge area is beyond repair, the hinge itself will need to be moved to an undamaged part. If it is moved, then a new hole will be needed in the door.CedGTV said:
The only thing you could do is to re-site the hinge either above or below the area it has been ripped from, as no matter what you use to try to re-attach the door the chipboard has been damaged and will no longer have it's compressed strength to take the fixing screw.
Look out for a blum hinge hole cutter (usually 35mm but sometimes smaller)
http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A337794/Drill-Bits/Wo...
With a drill and the cutter, plunge it into the door and up to the depth of the original circular hinge depth, usually the depth or the metal cutter body it's self and then re-fix the screws either side of it. Measure up the other end and re-site the fixing base plate to the inside of the kitchen unit and Bobs your uncle.
Oh and I make my son sit and watch and help with the repair so he can understand why it's not the best thing to be doing in the first place.
It hasn't half cut down on those little accidents....
Good luck with it.
Cheers. I think yours is the best solution but thanks for everyone's input. The hinge plates are a good idea, thanks for that, but the carcass is far too badly damaged. I'll keep them in mind for the loose hinges though.Look out for a blum hinge hole cutter (usually 35mm but sometimes smaller)
http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A337794/Drill-Bits/Wo...
With a drill and the cutter, plunge it into the door and up to the depth of the original circular hinge depth, usually the depth or the metal cutter body it's self and then re-fix the screws either side of it. Measure up the other end and re-site the fixing base plate to the inside of the kitchen unit and Bobs your uncle.
Oh and I make my son sit and watch and help with the repair so he can understand why it's not the best thing to be doing in the first place.
It hasn't half cut down on those little accidents....
Good luck with it.
It's the last cabinet so no partner to clamp to but thanks again posters.
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When my son did the same I used two-part epoxy gum (they look like Dolly Mixtures and you crush them and squish them until they're a uniform colour and have a consistency of Blu-Tak) and then pressed into the damaged area. Once hardened I then re-drilled the holes and refitted the door. Worked fine.
Thanks and glad to see that it's just not my children then.
I seem to constantly spend my time fixing things that they have broken but I don't remember being so destructive when I was a child.
Did break a window once with a flying piece of Meccano and did push the BBC1, BBC2 and ITV buttons on the telly in all at the same time and couldn't get them go come out again (Obviously a very long time ago).
I seem to constantly spend my time fixing things that they have broken but I don't remember being so destructive when I was a child.
Did break a window once with a flying piece of Meccano and did push the BBC1, BBC2 and ITV buttons on the telly in all at the same time and couldn't get them go come out again (Obviously a very long time ago).
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