How-to: Fix a Stripped Screw Hole with Toothpicks
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Stripped screws can be one of the most frustrating kinks in a home improvement project, even after you get it out. If you want to use that hole again, you can make sure your screw stays put with a few toothpicks.We've shown you how to remove a stripped screw with a rubber band, but once you get it out, that hole may not be suitable for another screw, since it'll be too loose. A golf tee will help you get a new screw in, but that doesn't give you a lot of versatility when it comes to the size of the hole. A better method, weblog Apartment Therapy notes, is to just use a few toothpicks:
Because toothpicks are fairly small, they can help fix holes of any size—you just need to make sure you have enough toothpicks if it's a bigger hole.Taking my father's advice, I unscrewed the hinge and placed a few pieces of toothpick in the screw hole. As I reinstalled the screw, I could feel that the toothpick pieces were doing their job. Basically the screw is able to grip onto the soft wood of the toothpick pieces, which creates a tight fit that couldn't be achieved in the stretched and stripped hole.
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Toothpicks to have their uses however - if you have had wood worm treated, you will be left with worm holes in the timber - left as they are, they can cause problems on future surveys for selling your house or insurance. Ram a toothpick into each hole, take it down with a chisel and sand it to blend with the original timber - careful on the sanding tho, a lot of structuract timbers are quite rough rather than PAR / PSE.