Ha! and you thought...

I would not bring up our kitchen ever again. Had y’all and me fooled didn’t it?


So there I was putting up something under the kitchen sink…I closed the cabinet door and it felt weird, kinda a wobbly waunky kind of thing. I got down on my knees and opened and closed it a couple of times. Then I got a bit pissed off (as is my way-sometimes)

As it turned out 2 of the screws that hold on the hinges were stripped out. Hum what ta heck, ya know. Now I don’t have to tell you that I’m handy with some tools so I grabbed my fancy-smachy cordless screw driver thingy. Once the screw was out of the top hinge little pieces of wood fell on the floor. That chicken sh$$ cabinet maker stripped out the hole and instead of fixing the hole he shoved broken bits of wood into it. Oh not just on the top hinge but the bottom one too.

It’s a good thing I knew how to fix it and I’m gonna share that with y’all my dear internets.

Find some toothpicks (several in my case) goop on some of that neat invention stuff called wood glue…shove them in the hole as far as you can and try to fill up as much of the hole with tooth picks. Let it dry overnight or longer, pending humidity and your need to put the door back on. This will work with most screw holes that have been stripped out and no longer hold the screw.

Once dry…Score the toothpicks with a tool of your choice (razor blade/box cutter/saw) break or cut them so that they are even with the surface.

It’s best to pre-drill the new hole with a bit that is small than the screw, then put the hinge up thar and screw it.

Tada a woman can fix something correctly that a “professional” cabinet maker couldn’t. Humph!

And this is the conclusion of today’s fix it class. I hope you enjoyed and learned something. If you have suggestions on how to make fixing stuff more fun and exciting please leave a comment and explain yourself or your project

How’s that Christmas / Hanukkah shopping going? Me? Oh I’m almost there…okay so the tree is up anyway.

HAPPY HANUKKAH to all my dear Jewish internets as that time has already begun.

Wooden Stake anyone?

You will never believe the following, but trust me it’s true. So there I was sweeping the floor getting ready to mop. No smarty panties that is not the unbelievable part. I scooted out one of the dining chairs so I could sweep and mop around the table and this happened

Incredible! I pulled the chair away from the table and part of the leg just sorta went ~~ plop. What ta heck? We have only had the set since March of this year. No I didn’t bother calling the store we got it from, I already know how that would have been…bring it in, well you must have abused it. Nope only been sit in like 3 times, maybe. Well then that was the problem, dry rot. (no they would never have said such a thing, it just makes me giggle when I say they would have said that) Sorry lady. We can’t replace it, color / style etc. is impossible to match. We can glue it back together. Yeah you know that’s the way it would have been, if I had called.

So being the handy dandy person that I am, I fixed it myself. Now once I started I could see that the leg was cracked when it was stained, due to the knot hole, I’m sure. See, can you see where the stain leached into the crack?

I got some trusty wood glue and some rubber bands. Painted glue on both pieces of the break put them together and wrapped the heck outta the leg with rubber bands. I didn’t have clamps, hence the use of rubber bands.

No, not my trick I saw it on TV this one time and put it in my memory banks for possible use latter. See y’all just thought all those weird pieces of left over memory cells were useless.

Beloved wants to put some screws in the leg to insure it won’t break again and I don’t want screws uglying it up. You can hardly tell it was broke, see

But the screws, surely anyone could and would see them. I know wood glue is pretty strong…but I want to know what you think. Yes you , all of my dear internets…What say you?

Screw OR NOT to screw?