Filling then drilling into hole (door keep)

[rossyl]

Hi,

Previous work had a door keep put too high, such that the door latch wouldn't go into the keep properly.

I've now sorted this out by lowering the position of the door keep in the frame.

Obviously this has resulted in an area above the door keep needing to be filled, that's fine and I'd usually use 2K car body filler.

But, where the screw down the top for the door keep latch is meant to go, well that's now just a hole. Yes, I can get a longer screw into the frame, but for the purposes of filling that bit, I don't want it to crack, once I drill through the filler.

Any suggestions? This must be a fair common issue.

Thanks

[Baldchap]

Are we talking an 'extended' screw hole or the old void?

[rossyl]

Old void

[Mercdriver]

Fill it with matchsticks and pva adhesive?

[.:ian:.]

Need to replace the air with wood, either chop a large section out and glue n screw a new piece back in place.

If you just need a bit to get one screw in, then you might get away with just a section of 12mm dowel, or as large as you can get, drill as deep a hole as you can, ideally there would be some wood at the bottom, then glue it in.

Filler is much less flexible than wood and it will split especially in somewhere like that that sees constant movement.

[Lotobear]

I've done this a few times. Square up the existing hole with a wood chisel, make a filler piece from swd, slightly over sized. Wet the hole, smear filler piece with gorilla glue and hammer it in.