How to fix a door hinge temporarily

If you live in an older home or have particularly cheap hinges and doors installed, you can easily fix them the broken door temporarily with a few tips from this article.

Things You Will Need

Leather belt

Screwdriver

Nail

Cooking oil

If you have lost or broken one of the hinge pins that hold your door to the door frame, substitute it with a long nail or modified and shortened piece of metal coat hanger. If a piece of the hinge pin is stuck in the hinges and preventing you’re from fixing it, use a long screw driver and a hammer to drive the broken piece out of the hole.

If you have a hinge that is totally trashed, remove the broken hinge with a screwdriver from both the door itself and the door frame. Next cut two 3 inch pieces of leather off of an old belt you may have laying around. Then attach both pieces of leather long ways to both the top and bottom mounting holes of both the door and door frame using the old screws from the broken hinge.

If your door is particularly noisy, take the hinge pins out of the door and lightly coat the hinge pins with cooking oil. Cut out a washer made out of felt, soak it in cooking oil as well and install the washer on the pin before reinstalling the pin to the hinges. When you install the oil coated hinge pins, use a pair of pliers to turn the pin a couple times to work in the oil.