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securing a carpet door bar (chipboard floorboards)
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Might be overkill for this job but best solution I found for stripped chipboard is insert nuts.
Sorted out the door hinges on some wardrobe that had been dismantled and moved one too often.0 -
The "solution" was posted and Ignored, its a flat plate, take it up and turn it around.I do Contracts, all day every day.0
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Marktheshark wrote: »The "solution" was posted and Ignored, its a flat plate, take it up and turn it around.
Unless it has a cut-out at either end or the holes are symmetrical.
The putting in of a rawl plug (or part of) or a matchstick or other piece of dowel would be the easiest to do and would lessen the chance of hitting any pipes or wiring that could be below the board.0
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