I have a metal exterior front door.
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Front door (metal) has gaps between the door and frame. How do i fix
Our front door (metal) has a lot of gaps between the door and the frame allowing cold or hot air to come in. How do I fix that?
You can repair the screw holes by removing the screws and then hammering a wooden golf tee into the hole. Redrill the holes and replace the screws.
Get some gorilla glue. Not the yellow but the polly urethane type. remove the screwes tat are loose one at a time. Tape off the area around the screw , wet the area with a damp paper towel , sqiirt some of the glue in the hole and put a ;little on the screw. pUT THE SCREW BACK IN AND REPEATE UNTILL UOU HAVE TREATED ALL OF THE SCREWS. tHE GLUE EXPANDS IN THE PRESENTS OF MOISTURE. nOW SCRAPE OFF ALL OF THE GLUE THAT HAS DRIED WHERE YOU DONT WANT IT. . tHE SCREWS WILL STAY IN PLACE.
I have actually used the expandable Gorilla Glue to fill in the hole, immediately screw in the screw, and not open the door for 24 hours while it cured. If you can, leaning something against the door to act like a vice would probably help - I could not do this as it was an inside door and just leaving the door shut worked great. It has been over a year of 100+ to 10 degree weather with no loosening of the screws.
Fill the holes with glue and let dry, then screw the new screws in.
Remove the screws, pack the holes solid with wood slivers,trim to finish and re-install the hinges and screws.
there is a PS to the golf tee fix. When you drive the tee into the hole, you cut off anything left outside/above the hole. I would not want you to think that you must drive the entire length of the tee into the hole.
IF YOU TAKE WOODEN TOOTHPICKS AND INSERT INTO THE HOLES AND THEN REPLACE THE SCREWS, THIS SHOULD WORK.
Get fatter screws to put into the holes that will hold better a little fatter then what was there
What we finally did was got longer, fatter screws that had the screw part all the way to the screw head
Thanks to everyone that posted an answer!