DIY Advice

[Gyakuto]

I need a temporary fix. I have the hole in some verbally, fixed chipboard into which were hinges were screwed to hold a cupboard door.

I thought the baking soda/superglue trick would work a treat as I could screw into the plugs of the set mixture and they’d be strong enough to hold the door (there are six such hole). But of course the holes are in a vertical piece of chipboard. Any suggestions as to how I can pour baking soda and then very fluid cyanoacrylate into the holes without the former just pouring out? It doesn’t have to be neat looking.

 

[Hot Lunch]

There are YouTube videos on this. You will need to use a straight edge to draw a square around all of the damage, and then cut the square out. Then you take that square, and trace it onto a new sheet of drywall, and cut that that out. You put the new square in, following the instructions in the video using the plaster.

 

[Gyakuto]

Not sure i have the skill to do that accurately enough, hence the NaHCO3 and superglue!

 

[Gyakuto]

I’ve made a sling with Scotch tape around the hole and filled it with bicarbonate. Now I just need to dribble some superglue into it.

 

[Steve]

Any reason you’re avoiding using wood filler? Some wood fillers would probably be stronger than the pressboard.

If it’s a bigger hole (hard to tell how big that is), I’d probably use a dowel. Drill it out, tap a dowel in kind of like a cork with some carpenters glue, saw it flush… give it a quick sand.