How To Use Expanding Foam To Repair Stripped Screw Holes In Drywall

Topic: how exercise I repair a stripped out screw hole in the wall

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Posted By: harley-dave on 03/24/13 08:12am Well, the subject says it all. My Winnie has those sparse woods walls and some of the screws holding misc. plates and brackets are stripping out. How do I repair the holes so I can tighten the wood screws and continue thing from coming off the wall?

Dave

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Posted By: donn0128 on 03/24/13 08:17am Down and dirty elementary set? Have a molar choice and some Elmer'southward glue. Utilise a small amount of glue to the tooth pick and shove it in the hole. Once the glue is dry out, supervene upon the spiral. Proficient for nearly e'er. BTW this is a keen fix for particle board holes too.

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Posted By: harley-dave on 03/24/xiii 08:23am cheers donn0128, I similar uncomplicated fixes. Simple and durable is even ameliorate. I had thought about glue simply needed an idea on something to put in the hole to go far smaller.

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Posted By: rk911 on 03/24/xiii 08:28am

donn0128 wrote:

Down and dirty uncomplicated fix? Take a tooth pick and some Elmer'south gum. Utilize a minor amount of glue to the tooth pick and shove it in the hole. One time the glue is dry, replace the spiral. Proficient for nearly ever. BTW this is a great fix for particle board holes besides.

been using this trick for a while at present and donn's right...the repaired pigsty will concord for a long, long time. only, depending on the size of the hole, you may need more than than one toothpick.

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Posted Past: marspec on 03/24/thirteen 08:30am

donn0128 wrote:

Down and dirty simple prepare? Take a tooth selection and some Elmer's glue. Apply a small amount of glue to the tooth option and shove information technology in the hole. Once the glue is dry, replace the screw. Proficient for nearly ever. BTW this is a bang-up gear up for particle board holes likewise.

My son says the mechanic's fix is to use wire instead of a toothpick. While that works in metal I'k not and so certain about woods. I'yard going to try it on my yard gates where the latch screws come up loose regularly with the toothpick method.

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Posted By: RVhiker on 03/24/xiii 08:31am Another way is to employ a small plastic sheetrock wall ballast. Information technology tin can just push into the too-large pigsty, and volition stay in the pigsty if yous accept to remove the item that is attached.

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Posted By: tvman44 on 03/24/13 08:32am I never would accept tried that with that thin paneling, I would have replaced the spiral with a molly bolt "information technology would be permanent" that paneling is and so sparse.

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Posted By: The Texan on 03/24/13 08:33am

rk911 wrote:

donn0128 wrote:

Down and muddy simple gear up? Have a tooth pick and some Elmer's glue. Apply a modest amount of mucilage to the tooth pick and shove information technology in the hole. Once the glue is dry, replace the screw. Expert for nearly ever. BTW this is a great set up for particle lath holes too.

been using this trick for a while now and donn'south correct...the repaired pigsty will hold for a long, long time. merely, depending on the size of the hole, you may need more than than 1 toothpick.

We likewise have used this pull a fast one on for years. Our RV has many toothpicks in it. Simple set up and final, most of the fourth dimension, forever.

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Posted By: JJBIRISH on 03/24/13 08:36am I to use the toothpick play tricks, simply that isn't the answer for your promlem…

Screws will never hold well in thin forest paneling… you need to install i of the the types of wall mollies available to hold particularly while billowy downwardly the highways…

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Posted By: harley-dave on 03/24/13 08:37am cheers all. You guy's are making this entirely too piece of cake!! I'm going to have to screw effectually on a few holes just to say I had to work at it!!

Dave

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Posted By: ~DJ~ on 03/24/13 08:37am I guess I tear bigger holes!!! I have ever had to use wooden match siticks!!!

But I agree for something that thin I would utilise a molly.

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Posted Past: Steeljag on 03/24/xiii 08:53am

harley-dave wrote:

thanks all. You guy's are making this entirely besides easy!! I'chiliad going to have to screw effectually on a few holes merely to say I had to piece of work at it!!

Dave

Lol.....

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Posted By: hershey on 03/24/13 09:26am Its a piece of probably ane/8" paneling. The toothpick idea is excellent when filling a hole in a piece of wood a one/two" or more thick but for this repair its going to be about useless. Most pregnant only a very temporary ready.
Just bite the bullet and get the molly.

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Posted By: fatmanobx on 03/24/13 10:07am I've used golf tee'south for larger holes..glue and stick information technology in and cutting off with razor knife..

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Posted By: Dick_B on 03/24/13 10:17am Screw in a self-drilling drywall ballast (East-Z Anchor) with some glue and let information technology dry. Put candle wax on the spiral when inserting the screw. Sometimes a smaller diameter screw than what comes with the anchor is easier to insert without twisting the ballast in a thin wall.

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Posted By: pbitschura on 03/24/xiii 10:27am I'thou surprised no one has suggested simply using a screw ane size larger.Dab with wood glue before installing.

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Posted By: in5r on 03/24/13 x:41am One piece of communication if using the hollow blazon wall anchor "molly commodities" have into consideration the thickness of the luan panel it will be clamping to. It needs to fully clamp downward on both sides of the console.

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Posted By: The Texan on 03/24/13 10:44am

in5r wrote:

One slice of communication if using the hollow type wall anchor "molly bolt" take into consideration the thickness of the luan panel it will exist clamping to. It needs to fully clamp down on both sides of the panel.

And that is the problem in an RV, that is insulated with high density foam. I take all the same to find a molly that is both curt enough and will expand properly, into the high density insulation on our RV.

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Posted By: dave54 on 03/24/xiii 11:22am Depending on the size of the hole -- toothpicks, matchsticks, golf tee. I have had mixed results with mollys or other expanding fasteners. Depends on what is in the wall backside the hole.

And use wood glue, not the white glue.

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Posted By: RoyB on 03/24/xiii 11:28am Dave - the bad side of this is if yous repair the hole and use it once more information technology volition merely strip out on you.

You need to utilize one of those MOLLY BOLTS shown above and that will spread out behind the wall and concur upwards a bunch of weight.

If yous are hanging a Telly Mountain or something that is heavy y'all really need to add a back board get-go similar a 3/4-inch board so yous can spread out the weight. Use molly bolts in the four corners of the dorsum board or screw directly into a thin wall stud. Then you can utilise regular screws into the board instead of the thin wall.

Molly bolts available from LOWES

Roy Ken

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Posted Past: rockhillmanor on 03/24/13 11:40am I always go along a box of fireplace matches on lath. Great for starting campfires and BBQ's...AND nice and thick and break to length needed to repair screw holes in the RV.

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fatmanobx
I've used golf tee's for larger holes..gum and stick information technology in and cutting off with razor knife..

I really similar THIS idea of using a golf tee. Being graduated it would be a fix for all sizes!

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Posted Past: noe-place on 03/25/13 01:32am Been shimming cleaved stuff my whole life. I thought everyone knew these "secrets for survival."

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Posted By: jhatton on 03/25/xiii 07:27am I accept been drilling the hole bigger with a 3/four forstner bit (carefully) to the depth of the back wall merely not into the back wall (slightly longer than the spiral y'all removed usually) so installing a 3/4 dowel into the hole using a polyurethane gum. The polyurethane mucilage volition expand so be sure y'all record the dowel then information technology does not push back out.. then using a affluent cut saw make clean off the bit of dowel sticking out, drill and re screw. haven't had one fail on anything yet.

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Posted Past: dwayneb236 on 03/25/xiii 07:53am I've always used dowels rods and glue. They come in so many sizes and I make and then many mistakes of varying sizes myself.

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Posted Past: wa8yxm on 03/25/13 08:34am I have shimed, I've used hollow wall anchors and popular-rivet basics (These are special nuts that piece of work like popular rivets,, You screw a special commodities into them, insert in hole in wall,, Pop with POP tool, and unscrew the special bolt (Which fits in the pop tool, NOTE you practise not squeeze difficult plenty to break the pin like a regular pop rivet) and so use a bolt instead of every bit screw that hole.

This works all-time in canvass metallic though, non fiberglass or forest.

Different "Strokes" for unlike holes in unlike materials.

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Posted Past: gijoecam on 03/25/13 09:19am On the thin wall of an RV, I'm not a fan of inserts... They never seem to hold well for me. Wing nuts aren't reusable.

Snap toggles, on the other mitt...

They stay in place even if y'all remove the screw, so they're completely reusable as many times as necessary. At work, I accept a 52" Tv set hung from a metallic-stud drywall wall using merely four of those snap-toggles. I've personally hung off the mount myself without an issue. I'd exist more than worried about the whole wall falling over than the Idiot box coming off the wall.

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Posted Past: CampinEarls on 03/25/13 09:35am Lots of drilling and tearing up the walls in this thread.... I utilize those 3M Contact strips for merely about everything, in the TT and at home. I've never had any fail on me and doesn't mess up the walls.
I did try to mountain a paper towel holder in the Outdoor Kitchen of my TT with those and I'thousand guessing the leverage of it sticking out and lookiing back I should have taken the towels off while traveling, but it made the wall paper seperate a lilliputian, I removed the strips and smoothed the paper back down, all is good at present. I remounted it nether the cabinet with the strips and has been there ever since.

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Posted By: dwayneb236 on 03/25/13 09:58am Thats what we are using in our new TT. No holes will be drilled where they will be noticable. I'll have to take it for a while before I drill holes in the walls.

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Posted By: camperpaul on 03/25/13 eleven:05am

JJBIRISH wrote:

I to utilise the toothpick trick, just that isn't the reply for your promlem…

Screws will never agree well in thin wood paneling… you need to install one of the the types of wall mollies available to concur especially while bouncing down the highways…

Information technology this photo at that place are two "Molly anchors" and a "Toggle Bolt".

The toggle bolt is a "one time" device; if you remove the spiral, the toggle falls down inside the wall.

The Mollys are forever.

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Posted By: Sarah-in-Montana on 09/12/xiii 05:48pm Previous owners rotated the chair in the living area without sliding it away from the wall/window outset. They knocked the bottom correct twenty-four hours/night shade subclass out of the wall(best described as a articulate plastic thread spool with pigsty through center for the screw). Information technology splintered the louann wall board and left a 3/4" ragged hole in the wall. Since this must withstand constant tension from the blind cord that's wound around the spool, we need a solution that will hold really well. Thought a Toggler Snap Toggle like pictured in this thread might be the solution, simply the metallic toggle looks like it might be also long to go inside the wall so plough vertically so it can be tightened down. Anyone know the depth of the within wall space? Has this been a problem for anyone else?

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Posted By: LarryJM on 09/13/13 02:31am

The Texan wrote:

in5r wrote:

One piece of advice if using the hollow blazon wall anchor "molly commodities" accept into consideration the thickness of the luan panel it will exist clamping to. It needs to fully clamp down on both sides of the panel.

And that is the problem in an RV, that is insulated with high density foam. I have yet to find a molly that is both curt enough and volition aggrandize properly, into the high density insulation on our RV.

Not if you lot utilize a tool meant to aggrandize and set moly bolts or like me a cutting off bolt the size of the threads in the moly and then 1 end ground downward to fit in a popular rivet tool and just similar setting a popular rivet you do the same to set the moly bolt. This as well prevents the anchors on the moly bolt face from gouging out the wall before the moly bolt anchor is sit.

Larry

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Posted By: relaxin on 09/13/thirteen 04:33am

JJBIRISH wrote:

I to employ the toothpick pull a fast one on, merely that isn't the reply for your promlem…

Screws will never hold well in thin woods paneling… you demand to install i of the the types of wall mollies available to hold especially while bouncing down the highways…

I take used the one in the centre a few times and they work swell, toggles are expert so long as whats being held has a flat expanse the size of the toggle when using on thin paneling, but the hole is far bigger than the screw and if there is a possibility of the item moving it eventually will.

I have a few of these in my toolbox in the trailer just in instance

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Posted By: John&Joey on 09/thirteen/13 05:31am Use pop rivets. It works great for just about anything that was only anchored with screws in 1/iv walls to begin with. Very unproblematic, inexpensive, and better than new.

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Posted By: Turner, P on 09/13/13 07:46am If y'all have stripped holes in thicker material (wood), endeavor golf tees and gum.
Glaze the tee with glue, insert into the hole (use a hammer to get information technology well seated). Let it dry out and cut the excess off and you lot accept a adept surface for a spiral.

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Posted By: Sarah-in-Montana on 09/13/13 08:06am Thanks for all your suggestions. I'll get to the hardware and big box store today and see what I tin bring dwelling house to give it a get. I'll allow yous know how we practise.

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Posted By: Mocoondo on 09/13/thirteen 09:18am Depending on the application, I will utilise toggle bolts or these:

The toggle commodities is great for a permanent item such as a towel bar. The spiral in wall anchors are great if you ever think y'all will take to remove the detail.

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Posted By: Sarah-in-Montana on 09/16/13 12:35pm Update - brought domicile 3 options from the hardware store and none worked. What appears to be foam insulation in the wall is preventing the anchor wings from opening in the wall. And the cocky screwing anchor wouldn't work either because the hole in the wall is larger than the head on the anchor so it comes correct back out of the hole. At this point I'm thinking the just hopeful solution is to gum a slice of 3.iv" diameter woods dowel in the hole, permit information technology dry, then drill a pilot hole and hope information technology will agree the string tensioner spool in place. Good news was I didn't demand to restring the shade; when I removed the bottom rail I was lucky enough to find the missing string end was within the track and non broken!

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Posted By: Sarah-in-Montana on 09/xvi/xiii 12:38pm Don't know why my update shows a three.four" dowel; I thought I typed iii quarter inch which is what I meant. Arghhh

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Posted By: Mocoondo on 09/sixteen/13 12:56pm

Sarah-in-Montana wrote:

And the self screwing anchor wouldn't piece of work either because the pigsty in the wall is larger than the head on the anchor and so information technology comes correct back out of the hole.

What the heck was holding your shade spool downwardly to leave that large a hole in the offset place?

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Posted By: AO_hitech on 09/16/xiii 03:27pm

rk911 wrote:

donn0128 wrote:

Down and muddy unproblematic fix? Take a molar choice and some Elmer'southward glue. Apply a modest amount of mucilage to the tooth pick and shove information technology in the pigsty. In one case the glue is dry out, supervene upon the screw. Good for nearly always. BTW this is a dandy set for particle board holes too.

been using this trick for a while now and donn'south correct...the repaired pigsty volition concord for a long, long time. but, depending on the size of the hole, you may need more ane toothpick.

I can't tell you how many stripped holes I've fixed that way. I don't think I accept e'er had to do the repair twice.

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Posted By: Sarah-in-Montana on 09/16/13 03:54pm To Mocoondo: I suspect the tension spool must have taken several direct sideways hits when people swiveled the chair around. When the chair is in information technology's "locked for travel" position, the dorsum of the chair sits VERY close to the wall/window. The chair is supposed to be slid abroad from the wall BEFORE it gets swiveled! I guess I need to put a warning sign on that chair for future guests??? Before it got knocked out of the wall the tension spool was screwed into a standard plastic anchor. I suppose the multiple hits jarred the anchor/screw back and forth in the pigsty enough times that information technology enlarged the hole in the wall.
TO AO hitech: hole too big for the toothpick trick. I'll mail over again after I can get a piece of dowel glued in. Hopefully that will agree.
In case anyone is wondering, why not simply attach it in a new location, there'south not enough actress cord on either side of the shade to allow for moving the tension spools down. I don't want to have to re-cord the dang shade unless it'south a terminal resort.

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Posted By: AO_hitech on 09/16/13 04:46pm For larger holes I take used several tooth picks, as many every bit six. However, using a dowel is basically the same thing. I would drill a small airplane pilot pigsty in the dowel prior to replacing the screw.

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Posted By: Sarah-in-Montana on 09/sixteen/xiii 05:04pm TO AO hitech: yes, I definitely will drill a pilot. Thanks!!!

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Posted Past: Sarah-in-Montana on 09/26/13 10:21am Took me awhile to detect my mail again because I was searching the wrong rv forum. . .arghhh!
A slice of iii quarter inch diameter dowel rod glued into the hole with gorilla glue did the trick. Drilled a pilot hole and screwed the spool back in - information technology's holding the tension from the shade cord nicely!

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