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Lowe's Reliabilt replacement door, Help!

20 years ago

We purchased a RELIABILT replacement fully framed door unit with side-lite, full length glass and in-glass mini-blinds from Lowe's. We had it installed by our own contractor.

Shortly after the installation the door would not latch properly and I noticed that it was sagging with the top corner of the door just brushing the top of the inside of the door frame. Upon further investigation, I found that the 3/4" #8 wood screws were being pulled out of the door at the hinges. Seems like the screws are too short and the door wood too soft for the weight of the door.

Lowes and Reliabilt will not do anything to remedy the situation since Lowes did not intstall the door unit. We are left to do the job ourselves, and while we are pretty handy we were wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to go about fixing the door. Should we just get 1 1/2" #8 screws or should we get #10 screws? Don't know if we would have to modify the hinges to accept them. Should we squirt some glue into the holes before we set the screws? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. OH, BY THE WAY, we tried to get our contractor back to fix the door that he put in, but he fell off the face of the earth which is very much the norm in SOUTH FLORIDA! SNAFU!

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