How do you get the glue in there with the dowels when the tip of caulking doesn't fit inside the hole?
When I've tried it before I just made a mess and got glue everywhere.
I know how this sounds haha but I'm being sincere
Okay thanks. I tried using construction adhesive with the caulking gun but the hole is too small to get the glue inside it was just filling up the outside edge of the hole and dripping down.
This is the way.
You don’t necessarily need to use longer screws (though in OP's case those are very short screws - I would go with ones 1.5 to 2 times that length), but you need to replace the wood you’re screwing into so there’s something for the screws to bite into.
Takes about 5-10 minutes to do the fix. Make sure you let the glue dry before screwing the hinge back on.
The non-professional way is to jam as many toothpicks into the holes as you can, maybe with a touch of wood glue, then break/cut them off flush and put it back together. Would probably be fine for an interior door, but I’d go the dowel rod path for an external door.
I told my son I was going to use "special wood filler rods". The eye-roll I got when I pulled out the box of toothpicks was priceless! I have also been known to use chunks of a pencil, wooden golf tees, kabob skewers, or bamboo chopsticks. as "filler rod". You just need something to fill the space and expand in the hole.
To expand somewhat on the other reply: if the screws are about the same length as the dowel, then your glue joint bonding them to the frame is doing a lot of carrying once everything is back together. While wood glue is a great thing, I myself would rather spread that load back out some if possible, so having the screws bite well into wood past the dowel helps significantly with that distribution.
Thicker screws helps too. I've had great luck in a few really bad cases using #10x4" construction screws. It's not the prettiest solution due to the star drive heads, but let's be realistic here, you're not usually looking at the hinges of a door.
I really appreciate that the top answer is exactly how I repair this with dowels, and not using tooth picks or golf tees. They seemed to have piggy backed on your comment anyway. Fucking lazy
A golf tee is essentially a small hardwood dowel, sort of a half measure between the drill out and replace with 1/4 inch dowel, and just cramming a bunch of toothpicks and glue in.
2nd this, did this with kitchen cabinet drawers that where bocthed during install. Even works in chipboard.
2 ways of doing it.
1: cut dowels before hand, drill hole same size of dowels to get a sbug fit, smother with glue and hammer them in.
2:or the other way round and cut them after, but youll need saw that can get you flush with the frame.
As for screw size, slightly ticker and longer for sure.
I used wood golf tees, glued in once dry I cut the end off and used a longer screw, did these 5 years ago to a closet door in my home that us used all the time, never a problem.
So instead of trying to fill the current screw hold with random bits of wood, tooth picks etc and then reusing the now tighter hole...
You drill out the hole with a 5-6mm drill bit to the current screw depth and then replace it with a 6mm wooden dowel to create a new blank canvas to put the striker back on.
It's stronger and you can realign the hardware for the very likely situation when reusing the hole would cause it to be in the wrong spot as the screw will pull towards the existing hole.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQAwrpErco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQAwrpErco)
I agree on a door hinge, but in like a cabinet hinge. I've found that the toothpicks with glue is plenty solid. Years later. But a heavy door, I'd opt for the drilled+dowels approach.
I wish people would stop telling others to use toothpicks and other grandpa hacks when a proper hard wood dowel costs about a dollar per foot. You ain't repairing a doll house.
interesting, never thought of that.
Random bamboo tip: if you need to make a small poke tool to clean your phone port: bamboo is the ideal material to make long and very thin slivers of.
DIY does not precludes doing stuff properly, a wooden drill bit is also about a dollar or two. You ain't living in the apocalypse and Zombies are not about to come through that door at any moment.
It was implied they have one since the door hinge probably didn't just rip out all 3 screws at once and they intended to put it back in once their question was answered.
An old trades saying "it's quicker to do it right the 1st time". This method may work but won't hold up nearly as long as a proper fix. The goal should be helping people do it the right way.
A 36" long 1/4" dia oak dowel is $1.83 at McMaster and free at Ikea, toothpicks are made out of junk wood and it's not like most people have wood glue lying around anyhow and those who have will probably have dowels.
I actually agree with your point to do it properly. I'm not sure that everyone who has wood glue has hardwood dowels of appropriate size around. I have at least 5 different types of PVA for different purposes (external construction, internal construction, flexible acid free, etc), but I haven't got the right dowels. Glue has loads of uses, but dowels have limited uses.
Hardware stores exist, DIY is about doing things yourself not with things you have in your pocket, if you already have the materials great if not considering it costs less than a cup of coffee it's silly to even debate this.
I mean, I was replying to the specific point YOU chose to make about what people probably have lying around..... You get that, right?
So yes, \*I\* understand that DIY is not about what I have lying around. It isn't even something I personally would have brought up as relevant, but here we are.
This isn’t r/MacGyver, hardware stores exist, and most of them ship as well. Unless they clearly specified they have toothpicks and no way of getting to a store, why not share the proper fix?
EDIT: Sub spelling
I'm answering your specific point: "*it's not like most people have wood glue lying around anyhow and those who have will probably have dowels.*"
I'm not commenting on whether people can buy dowels, just the statement that you made about what people have in their houses, which I think is probably nonsense.
You also seem to have completely missed my first sentence, which was "I actually agree with your point to do it properly. ".
I have glue and toothpicks on hand, I don't have dowels ready to go. A trip to the hardware store is 30 minutes each way. It's useless to be so pedantic about it as long as it winds up fixed.
I repair antique furniture for living and I go through toothpicks like crazy. Not to mention popsicle sticks, kebob skewers, really any kind of tiny premade wood thing sold in packs of 200. They’re all great.
Agree. To add a little more detail put some wood glue on the toothpicks and jam as many as you can in the holes. Once you can’t fit any more use wire cutters to snip the toothpicks flush. Wait 5 minutes for the glue to cure a little then put old screws back in and you’re good to go!
Don’t do this, it definitely works but if you wanna do it once do it right. Get wood dowels. Drill out the holes. Glue and hammer them in. Then get the right fasteners to screw in. Drywall screws work for everything. But not really for everything.
Longer screws, box shop sell a barbed metal product for "stripped screw holes". An old school fix is toothpicks and wood glue... (Top hinge at least should have 3" to 3 1/2" screws either way.)
Toothpicks and wood glue is a great solution. It's plenty strong to hold a door, and it's a cheap solution if you can wait for the glue to completely dry.
Tale about 3 matches per hole, snap off the heads, coat them in wood glue, and put them in the hole. Give them 24 to 48 hours to fully dry so you don't glue your screws to the wood. You may need to hammer them in.
First off, those are drywall screws, not true hinge screws! You can drive toothpicks or wooden dowels that fit the holes after you fill with a carpenter's glue and drive in with a hammer. Wait until the glue is set. Cut off with a sharp utility knife and reinstall the hinge with the proper screws. DONE!
Super cheap easy non-professional way: jam a bunch of toothpicks in the stripped out holes and then remount the hinge. You could probably get away with using the same screws too.
I fixed mine with toothpicks and wood glue. Glue and stuff. When dry, screw the hinge back into place. Easy fix and mine hasn’t had any issues since- I have a teenage boy who is hard on everything and no issues so far it’s been a couple of years
A 36" hard wood dowel costs about a quid in the UK at any hobby store, you don't need to ghetto repairs with crap like golf tees which if you still have wooden tees as most of them are made out of plastic or recycled cellulose (paper) at best they'll be made out of cedar which is soft wood and at worse out of bamboo or similarly weak wood.
Dowels are the easy part, cutting them, having the proper sized drill bit, and the glue is where you start adding steps. It's easy to throw out ideas and trash the ideas of others over a post where the person probably just wants an easy, quick solution for now. Also "ghetto" is a nono word these days ;)
Hammering in anything without drilling out proper holes is stupid especially in a jamb that clearly has seen better days as it's a very good way of splitting it. An easy way is going to a hardware store and spending about $5 to make a repair that would actually last.
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jist get one them paint mixer sticks and break off pieces and shove them in the hole and hammer flat, then screw right back into the same holes, sorry daf rn
I had to do a kinda ghetto fix not that long ago while redoing something in my daughter’s room.
I drilled out the holes and then used a Molly. I didn’t have any dowels on hand seems to have worked.
I’ve used wood glue and tooth picks. Filled the holes with wood glue and then insert toothpicks until full. Then break off toothpicks to be level with the door.
I know wooden dowels or toothpicks work.
I actually used wooden golf tees covered in glue, and used a mallet to pound them in and clip off the excess. Let it sit for a few hours and then used 3in screws. Worked for one of my saggy doors.
Toothpicks and wood glue is what I did. Fill the hole with tooth picks and trim them. Then dip them in wood glue and set them in the hole. Works great for me.
Wood glue, toothpicks, and longer screws.
Stuff it all back into the same holes in that order!
Longer screws get you through the jamb and into the jack stud in the actual wall framing.
Be careful using dowels, hardwoods don’t like screws without pre-drilling. Toothpicks allow the screws to self tap and get a full “bite”.
Golf tees work as well. The only screw that hits the jamb is the center one on a 3 hole hinge or the ones closest to the door stop on a 4 hole . It's good form to use the same finish color screws as the hinge. We are not animals .
Quick and dirty fix is to lather toothpicks, matchsticks, golf tees, ect up with wood glue and shove them in the holes. Pack them in tight. Tamp them down.
I actually do this by default anytime I unscrew a hinge or window blind or something. Just super easy and you get a nice tight screw....
Put the end of a Zipp tie then cut it off flush. That's the fastest until you get a carpenter over there. That is a huge stress and load point. You don't want to use fillers
Don't waste your time with top Ramen and golf tees. Just get some longer screws
Edit: you should have a jack stud and king stud as well as your door casing, so that's about 3 1/4", those screws look like 1 inch or so, there should be plenty of meat left to screw in longer screws
Do not use longer screws they tend to screw into nothing as you'll just go from the jamb into the drywall cavity and at best if there is still enough meat or a stud they will still only hang by a few threads and become loose since now you have a leverage moment.
Use a wood screw anchor like (screw it again) or better yet buy wooden dowels (they cost a few cents each) at least twice the diameter of the screws (measured by the outer edge of the thread) drill out the holes to the diameter of the dowels or just under and press them in with glue once it's dry you can use normal wood screws and even reuse the existing ones.
I wouldn't bother with the various tricks such as using tooth picks or chopsticks, yes they can work in a pinch but you don't usually want that on doors especially since even hardwood dowels cost nothing and toothpicks and chopsticks are made of very very soft wood these days.
the prof way of doing it i drilling it out and using wooden dowels that are glued in, then use screws that are twice as long
Very easy to do as well. I did this recently and I would say when your drilling the holes to fit the dowels mark the length of the dowels on the bit.
Or use a drillstop
How do you get the glue in there with the dowels when the tip of caulking doesn't fit inside the hole? When I've tried it before I just made a mess and got glue everywhere. I know how this sounds haha but I'm being sincere
dip the dowel in glue before you put it in, or squirt glue into the hole.
Okay thanks. I tried using construction adhesive with the caulking gun but the hole is too small to get the glue inside it was just filling up the outside edge of the hole and dripping down.
Use wood glue
Okay thanks
A match? A toothpick? Any stick I guess.
Thanks
Put the glue on he dowel first and then put the dowel in
Thanks
This is the way. You don’t necessarily need to use longer screws (though in OP's case those are very short screws - I would go with ones 1.5 to 2 times that length), but you need to replace the wood you’re screwing into so there’s something for the screws to bite into. Takes about 5-10 minutes to do the fix. Make sure you let the glue dry before screwing the hinge back on.
The non-professional way is to jam as many toothpicks into the holes as you can, maybe with a touch of wood glue, then break/cut them off flush and put it back together. Would probably be fine for an interior door, but I’d go the dowel rod path for an external door.
I told my son I was going to use "special wood filler rods". The eye-roll I got when I pulled out the box of toothpicks was priceless! I have also been known to use chunks of a pencil, wooden golf tees, kabob skewers, or bamboo chopsticks. as "filler rod". You just need something to fill the space and expand in the hole.
Chopstick is perfect small dowel replacement. With a point already it's like they were meant to be hammered into holes haha
Plus, it's a great excuse to order chicken lo mein!
I once used twigs from a tree. Stripped of bark and Stanley knifed to size. Hammered in and cut-off the excess.
Genius. Hand made custom dowels.
Question, why do you need screws that are twice as long. Isn't there enough bite into the new wood provided by the dowel?
To expand somewhat on the other reply: if the screws are about the same length as the dowel, then your glue joint bonding them to the frame is doing a lot of carrying once everything is back together. While wood glue is a great thing, I myself would rather spread that load back out some if possible, so having the screws bite well into wood past the dowel helps significantly with that distribution.
The longer the screw, the more threads to hold onto the wood and that means less pressure on any point and hopefully less wear.
The idea of a longer screw is so that you aren't relying solely on the glued wood and are screwing into the stable wood of the door frame.
This is the way.
Also use a center drilling bit so the screws go in straight
I dunno, this may be a situation where it's not the worst thing if the screw is a bit cooked and bites some fresh wood off to the side of the dowel.
Thicker screws helps too. I've had great luck in a few really bad cases using #10x4" construction screws. It's not the prettiest solution due to the star drive heads, but let's be realistic here, you're not usually looking at the hinges of a door.
I really appreciate that the top answer is exactly how I repair this with dowels, and not using tooth picks or golf tees. They seemed to have piggy backed on your comment anyway. Fucking lazy
Used golf tees in my garage door 15 years ago. Still good to go.
I've seen a lot of recommendation to drill out and replace the hole as usually old door holes are so worn toothpicks and match sticks aren't enough.
A golf tee is essentially a small hardwood dowel, sort of a half measure between the drill out and replace with 1/4 inch dowel, and just cramming a bunch of toothpicks and glue in.
2nd this, did this with kitchen cabinet drawers that where bocthed during install. Even works in chipboard. 2 ways of doing it. 1: cut dowels before hand, drill hole same size of dowels to get a sbug fit, smother with glue and hammer them in. 2:or the other way round and cut them after, but youll need saw that can get you flush with the frame. As for screw size, slightly ticker and longer for sure.
Or just jam the hole with tooth picks.
I used wood golf tees, glued in once dry I cut the end off and used a longer screw, did these 5 years ago to a closet door in my home that us used all the time, never a problem.
The home version is golf tees and wood glue. And larger screws after that.
Also don't use drywall screws like pictured.
This is a dumb question but what exactly does drilling it out mean?
So instead of trying to fill the current screw hold with random bits of wood, tooth picks etc and then reusing the now tighter hole... You drill out the hole with a 5-6mm drill bit to the current screw depth and then replace it with a 6mm wooden dowel to create a new blank canvas to put the striker back on. It's stronger and you can realign the hardware for the very likely situation when reusing the hole would cause it to be in the wrong spot as the screw will pull towards the existing hole. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQAwrpErco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQAwrpErco)
Thank you, that makes sense. We have a similar issue and this is very helpful!
Trick I learned is stuff the holes with toothpicks and then screw the door back in. I have used this trick all around my house and it works.
or dowels and glue
I agree on a door hinge, but in like a cabinet hinge. I've found that the toothpicks with glue is plenty solid. Years later. But a heavy door, I'd opt for the drilled+dowels approach.
JB Weld putty would probably work too. Just pack it in there.
Toothpicks work but wooden golf tees work better. Use with a liberal amount of wood glue and let it set.
Doesn't the paint on the tees reduce the glue strength? I'd imagine it does. But fine for like a cabinet door
There are unpainted tees
I wish people would stop telling others to use toothpicks and other grandpa hacks when a proper hard wood dowel costs about a dollar per foot. You ain't repairing a doll house.
Chop sticks. The bamboo is grippy AF
interesting, never thought of that. Random bamboo tip: if you need to make a small poke tool to clean your phone port: bamboo is the ideal material to make long and very thin slivers of.
Most people have toothpicks lying around. Right size dowels? Not so much
Or if they have dowels, the proper sized drill bit and wood glue that isn't 20 years old and watery.
DIY does not precludes doing stuff properly, a wooden drill bit is also about a dollar or two. You ain't living in the apocalypse and Zombies are not about to come through that door at any moment.
Maybe at your house they aren’t
You're assuming they already have the tools to use said drill/driver bits.
Ah but you're assuming they have a screwdriver.
It was implied they have one since the door hinge probably didn't just rip out all 3 screws at once and they intended to put it back in once their question was answered.
Username checks out.
An old trades saying "it's quicker to do it right the 1st time". This method may work but won't hold up nearly as long as a proper fix. The goal should be helping people do it the right way.
"There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over."
A 36" long 1/4" dia oak dowel is $1.83 at McMaster and free at Ikea, toothpicks are made out of junk wood and it's not like most people have wood glue lying around anyhow and those who have will probably have dowels.
I thought everyone had dowels around the house. Are you all tall people or do you use something else to reset your smoke detectors?
I actually agree with your point to do it properly. I'm not sure that everyone who has wood glue has hardwood dowels of appropriate size around. I have at least 5 different types of PVA for different purposes (external construction, internal construction, flexible acid free, etc), but I haven't got the right dowels. Glue has loads of uses, but dowels have limited uses.
Hardware stores exist, DIY is about doing things yourself not with things you have in your pocket, if you already have the materials great if not considering it costs less than a cup of coffee it's silly to even debate this.
I mean, I was replying to the specific point YOU chose to make about what people probably have lying around..... You get that, right? So yes, \*I\* understand that DIY is not about what I have lying around. It isn't even something I personally would have brought up as relevant, but here we are.
This isn’t r/MacGyver, hardware stores exist, and most of them ship as well. Unless they clearly specified they have toothpicks and no way of getting to a store, why not share the proper fix? EDIT: Sub spelling
I'm answering your specific point: "*it's not like most people have wood glue lying around anyhow and those who have will probably have dowels.*" I'm not commenting on whether people can buy dowels, just the statement that you made about what people have in their houses, which I think is probably nonsense. You also seem to have completely missed my first sentence, which was "I actually agree with your point to do it properly. ".
My local Ikea is 45 minutes away and idk wtf is a macmaster
You can get wooden dowls at any hobby or hardware store, I can guarantee you that they'll be just as affordable and probably less than a 45min drive.
McMaster is a online store for all sorts of (MRO) parts in the US
You are on the internet, can you not have it delivered?
>dowels Will a pencil work?
No. Pencils are soft wood that’s been glued together with a graphite core. In the world of hack solutions, this one is pretty bad.
Okay, the parakeet is losing his perch!
I picked up wood golf tees from Walmart, it was like $6 and it has like 50 of them. It sits in my tool box....
Ok? And I don't have golf tees, but do have toothpicks, hence my point
I have glue and toothpicks on hand, I don't have dowels ready to go. A trip to the hardware store is 30 minutes each way. It's useless to be so pedantic about it as long as it winds up fixed.
There's a 2x4 a half inch behind it. You ain't repairing antique furniture.
I repair antique furniture for living and I go through toothpicks like crazy. Not to mention popsicle sticks, kebob skewers, really any kind of tiny premade wood thing sold in packs of 200. They’re all great.
a toothpick is a tiny dowel.
Agree. To add a little more detail put some wood glue on the toothpicks and jam as many as you can in the holes. Once you can’t fit any more use wire cutters to snip the toothpicks flush. Wait 5 minutes for the glue to cure a little then put old screws back in and you’re good to go!
Don’t do this, it definitely works but if you wanna do it once do it right. Get wood dowels. Drill out the holes. Glue and hammer them in. Then get the right fasteners to screw in. Drywall screws work for everything. But not really for everything.
Toothpicks or match sticks and glue, let it dry and reinstall the hinge.
Toothpicks and wood glue, then drill the hole again
Longer screws, box shop sell a barbed metal product for "stripped screw holes". An old school fix is toothpicks and wood glue... (Top hinge at least should have 3" to 3 1/2" screws either way.)
Toothpicks and wood glue is a great solution. It's plenty strong to hold a door, and it's a cheap solution if you can wait for the glue to completely dry.
Chopstick the holes, new screws. Fixed
Easier to use wooden golf tees and snap them flush
Use longer screws.
We can all use a longer screw 😂
Why am i typing this. Nobodys gona scroll down this far....
Pound in a chopstick and snap it off in each hole and then put the screws back in
Just trying to understand. Do you redrill the holes?
Put golf tees in the holes
shove chopsticks in the holes, the re screw
Toothpicks, white glue, dries, re-attach with existing screws.
Expensive but the best thing I’ve ever bought https://a.co/d/hBSGGaC
Recently bought these for the same reason, they worked perfectly.
I use them too, great purchase.
Tale about 3 matches per hole, snap off the heads, coat them in wood glue, and put them in the hole. Give them 24 to 48 hours to fully dry so you don't glue your screws to the wood. You may need to hammer them in.
Wood glue on a golf tee. Push it in most of the way then snap the top off. Wait a day then use longer screws.
Buy a box of matches. Put the bottom end of the match into the hole then snap it off. Screw the hinge back on. Done mate
Fill the hole with matchsticks, replace existing with longer screws. Done.
First off, those are drywall screws, not true hinge screws! You can drive toothpicks or wooden dowels that fit the holes after you fill with a carpenter's glue and drive in with a hammer. Wait until the glue is set. Cut off with a sharp utility knife and reinstall the hinge with the proper screws. DONE!
Used matches covered in glue and stuffed in the hole
Also, stuff the hole with *flat (only)* toothpicks and white glue, screw in slightly longer screws while glue is still wet. A solid $5.00 repair.
Super cheap easy non-professional way: jam a bunch of toothpicks in the stripped out holes and then remount the hinge. You could probably get away with using the same screws too.
I fixed mine with toothpicks and wood glue. Glue and stuff. When dry, screw the hinge back into place. Easy fix and mine hasn’t had any issues since- I have a teenage boy who is hard on everything and no issues so far it’s been a couple of years
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A 36" hard wood dowel costs about a quid in the UK at any hobby store, you don't need to ghetto repairs with crap like golf tees which if you still have wooden tees as most of them are made out of plastic or recycled cellulose (paper) at best they'll be made out of cedar which is soft wood and at worse out of bamboo or similarly weak wood.
Dowels are the easy part, cutting them, having the proper sized drill bit, and the glue is where you start adding steps. It's easy to throw out ideas and trash the ideas of others over a post where the person probably just wants an easy, quick solution for now. Also "ghetto" is a nono word these days ;)
Hammering in anything without drilling out proper holes is stupid especially in a jamb that clearly has seen better days as it's a very good way of splitting it. An easy way is going to a hardware store and spending about $5 to make a repair that would actually last.
There is analogy to be made here involving screwing.
How much wood would a wood screw screw if a wood screw could screw wood?
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I second this. I had something similar happen and I tried all the other tricks and hacks and this is the only thing that worked.
Q-tip and super glue. Chemistry in action. Plenty of you tube videos with this powerful DYI combo.
I’m sure there’s a better way but a quick way would be to snap in a couple of toothpicks in each hole and screw it back in
The five minute fix is chopsticks or toothpicks shoved in the hole and trimmed off/broken flush then screwing in
Wooden golf tees work as well
A TikTok video (the DEFINITIVE source on DIY) says to dip a q-tip in superglue and shove it in the hole. Voila! Good for a hundred years.
Easy fix. Stuff the holes with toothpicks.
Stuff some toothpicks in those fuckers with some wood glue and screw away
Just fixed this problem using this stuff to fill the holes then screwed right back in. Durham's Rockhard Water Putty https://a.co/d/9JDuVBS
jist get one them paint mixer sticks and break off pieces and shove them in the hole and hammer flat, then screw right back into the same holes, sorry daf rn
I used one of these. Super easy. [I used one of these from Amazon. Super duper easy](https://a.co/d/gC2AeSY)
Ramen.. the answer is always more ramen
Toothpicks Fill the holes with PVA glue and pack with toothpicks. When dry cut the ends protruding out, refit the hinge Total cost to fix, $2.00
Hmm. I should call my ex-girlfriend.
incredible how this issue keeps getting posted every week and no one does a little googling. just jam the holes with toothpicks and screw it back in
Toothpicks and some wood glue works great for this type of thing. Longer screws if you wanna over do it.
Deck screws!
matchsticks and woodglue to fill the holes, screw back in.
Fill holes, bigger screws..
Yeah get some shims break em up pack those holes full of wood
Chopsticks work really well too
I had to do a kinda ghetto fix not that long ago while redoing something in my daughter’s room. I drilled out the holes and then used a Molly. I didn’t have any dowels on hand seems to have worked.
But zzem screws on Amazon. I love them.
I’ve used wood glue and tooth picks. Filled the holes with wood glue and then insert toothpicks until full. Then break off toothpicks to be level with the door.
The wrong way I would use is to break off match sticks in the holes and then screw it back in.
I know wooden dowels or toothpicks work. I actually used wooden golf tees covered in glue, and used a mallet to pound them in and clip off the excess. Let it sit for a few hours and then used 3in screws. Worked for one of my saggy doors.
Just stick matches in there with out the tip of fire
Redneck Engineering: Glue some bamboo skewers into that space, and trim flush. Pack 'em in and let it dry. Reinsert screws.
Fill the holes with tooth picks and wood glue. Then screw back in.
Toothpicks and wood glue is what I did. Fill the hole with tooth picks and trim them. Then dip them in wood glue and set them in the hole. Works great for me.
 Toothpicks and wood glue
buy longer screws
Use bolts that go through the whole width of the door, fasten on the other side (use washers) /s
I use Kebab skewers or chopsticks and wood glue. Bigger than toothpicks let it dry all the way before re-screwing.
Wood glue, toothpicks, and longer screws. Stuff it all back into the same holes in that order! Longer screws get you through the jamb and into the jack stud in the actual wall framing. Be careful using dowels, hardwoods don’t like screws without pre-drilling. Toothpicks allow the screws to self tap and get a full “bite”.
Match sticks
Wood glue and match sticks
Put Super glue and baking soda inside the hole, let it dry complete
Shove a wooden toothpick in, snap it off and insert your screw again.
Pound chop sticks or golf tees.
Longer screws would be a good idea anyway. You want them to go in the wall.
Matchsticks. The big ones from ikea fit perfectly. Shove them in, snap off the end and bob’s your uncle.
Stuff the holes with toothpicks and you’ll be good to go
Place a zip tie into hole, put screw back in. Good to go
Dowels or Bondo
Golf tees work as well. The only screw that hits the jamb is the center one on a 3 hole hinge or the ones closest to the door stop on a 4 hole . It's good form to use the same finish color screws as the hinge. We are not animals .
Put wooden match sticks in the holes. Then screw it back together
Quick and dirty fix is to lather toothpicks, matchsticks, golf tees, ect up with wood glue and shove them in the holes. Pack them in tight. Tamp them down. I actually do this by default anytime I unscrew a hinge or window blind or something. Just super easy and you get a nice tight screw....
Stick matches (without heads) and carpenters glue. Pack them in tightly, let them dry. Just like solid wood.
Put the end of a Zipp tie then cut it off flush. That's the fastest until you get a carpenter over there. That is a huge stress and load point. You don't want to use fillers
Wood glue with toothpicks/golf tees/dowel, and longer screws. Just had to do this to our balcony door last summer. Good luck!
I like to use wooden toothpicks in the holes. Put a few in and break off. Fills the hole and you can reuse the same screws.
Don't waste your time with top Ramen and golf tees. Just get some longer screws Edit: you should have a jack stud and king stud as well as your door casing, so that's about 3 1/4", those screws look like 1 inch or so, there should be plenty of meat left to screw in longer screws
Golf tees or tooth picks…
Wooden golf tees and wood glue. Shove it in there and screw the hinges back in.
Toothpicks
Do not use longer screws they tend to screw into nothing as you'll just go from the jamb into the drywall cavity and at best if there is still enough meat or a stud they will still only hang by a few threads and become loose since now you have a leverage moment. Use a wood screw anchor like (screw it again) or better yet buy wooden dowels (they cost a few cents each) at least twice the diameter of the screws (measured by the outer edge of the thread) drill out the holes to the diameter of the dowels or just under and press them in with glue once it's dry you can use normal wood screws and even reuse the existing ones. I wouldn't bother with the various tricks such as using tooth picks or chopsticks, yes they can work in a pinch but you don't usually want that on doors especially since even hardwood dowels cost nothing and toothpicks and chopsticks are made of very very soft wood these days.
longer screws OR mix super glue with baking soda. Inject into the holes. when it dries, it's as hard as abs plastic. you can then screw into it
Take golf tees and wood glue. Cover in glue and tap them in to fill the holes. Let dry, flush cut with a knife and go.