I live in a pretty old house, and it still has a few original internal features left. Unfortunately, since the house probably over 100 years old, not everything is in peak condition. The door between the living room and the dinning room was hanging quite badly, and since tightening the screws in the hinge didn't fix the problem of the door dragging on the carpet, further action needed to be taken.


As you can see, the screw holes are rather large and the wood is split and splintered. Attempts to patch up the holes had already been made, so I had to remove all the old bits of wood and remaining screws.

Next came round one of the wood filler, applied with a small trowel (or whatever, I think you could get away with using a clean table knife if you didn't have a spatula or trowel), which was left to dry for about 12 hours before applying level two

Then came the second layer of wood filler, which was left to dry over night and then sanded down. The big test came when I screwed the hinge back in palce - surprisingly (for me) the door fitted back in the frame and has been sat happily opening and closing for well over 3 weeks now.