Kitchen cabinet door hinge problem

Ian & Hilda Dedic · 2011-04-27T07:03:25+00:00

Hi ChapsI have a problem with one of my kitchen cabinet door hinges,due to enormous teenagers yanking upwards on the door handles one of them has ripped the screws out of the cabinet leaving a great big crater in the inner chip board under the melamine coating. These are good quality cabinets with quite heavy doors, and I can't just replace the carcase easily without taking off the very heavy silestone worktop.The kitchen is 3 years old so I don't want to replace the kitchen units, all the other units are ok.So, how can I fix this in a more permanent fashion.I have tried the usual toothpicks in the screw hole trick, and some other polyfilla type efforts to fill the crated, but none have stood the test of time.The problem is that nothing seems to want to stick to the chipboard crater.What other things can I try? Sawdust in pva? car body filler?A T nut fitted into a hole drilled through from the other side? If I can get one small enough, it would probably need to be an M3 to fit through the screw hole in the hinge. Fortunately there is only one cabinet wall thickness as the fridge is in the next space along but the clearance is small so I couldn't just stick a piece of plywood on the outside to screw into.Suggestions please (no not the angle grinder!)Thanksdedics