How Do You Fill A Door Handle Hole

The reason for applying from the back side is to keep this mess to the back.

How do you fill a door handle hole.

Mix the epoxy. This material comes in a large aerosol can with a long plastic applicator tip. Fill the hole with expanding foam insulation. Allow the foam to dry.

You can see that as you press the filler in and spread it around it gets a little messy. Hollow doors are such a swizz. Sand rough or splintered edges in the mortise area. Usually they have a solid bit a lock block where you re supposed to put the latch handle.

How to fill holes left when a door strike was moved. I ve used caps and on a couple just pocket door pulls that fit into the hole. A dowel of the proper diameter works well for the rounded hole in the door edge left by the. Squirt a generous amount into the hole so that the foam expands to fill the hollow space behind the hole.

Remove the plate and all of the old hardware from the strike area. Grab your filler and cabinet door you want to fill turn over the cabinet door and start to apply the filler from the back side of the cabinet. The wood does not need. You ll have to let it dry for a long time i d think or it ll be soft in the middle.

Fill the hole with either epoxy that builder s putty that escapes me right now or something that won t shrink. For durability and structural integrity it s hard to beat real wood when filling a large hole in a door. This will take several hours so it s best to let it dry overnight.