This may seem like a bizzre topic, but I thought I’d write about it anyway.
One of the doors in our house has been progressively coming off it’s hingest to the point where it wouldn’t close as it was catching on the door frame. We’ve endlessley tightened the screws in the hinge which have solved the problem temporarily, but after a couple of days we’re back to square one.
Eventually I decided to ring a local tradesman who has done some work for us before and asked if he could find time to come over and see if he could fix the door. He replied ‘well I could, but it I’ll give you a tip; use match sticks, it’s all I’d do if I came over’.
Match Sticks? And then he explained what to do…
Take out the screws and put some match sticks in the hole (take off the head first!) and then put the screws back in. Some may need more than one match stick. The wood from the match sticks gives them something to bite onto and also fills up some of the hole.
10 mintues later and we’ve now got a door that closes better than it has done since we moved in 4 years ago, and it didn’t cost a penny!
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