I have a 42" steel clad door with light for my entrance door off the solarium. It has three hinges. It gets used a lot. The center and top hinge loosened years ago and after tightening them several times, I put in longer 3" screws and now they are slipping and I cannot get much torque on them, assuming they are stripping out the wood core between the clads. I cannot move up to the next larger wood screw (not longer) unless I take off the hinge and bore the hole and countersink larger. I do not know how much depth there is to the wood stile inside the door and I maybe can't get any longer wood screw in the current size. I don't like to put some kind of glue into the threads as I might want/have to take the hinges off some day. The sagging door is wearing the metal seal strip on the threshold.
This is an Anderson model door.
Have you ever successfully effected a repair like this? Leo
This is an Anderson model door.
Have you ever successfully effected a repair like this? Leo