Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
Give me your address and I'll swing over, break in, and do it for you.
ETA: Wulf, on a serious note, why only one 3" screw in each hinge? Why not all of them?
Most hinges on exterior doors use a large head screw, put a 3" deck screw up next to them and compare, the large pan heads aren't the same as deck screws. If you replace them all they will push thru the oversized hole and your door will be on the floor.

The correct sized head screws are zinc plated or nickel making them inherently brittle where as a deck screw is malleable. Meaning the correct screw is more likely to shear and the deck screw more likely to bend.

Most people who kick a door kick at the strike side, where you should kick so the need to armor the hinges is small.

Even if you kick at the hinges you will encounter the pin of the deck screw.

Even if you kick at the hinges you will have to kick each hinge open, spreading the kicking force from the top hinge to the bottom spreads the load better than at the strike side where most of the screws are within 8" of each other.

Deck screws are cheaper to buy in bulk and you'll probly need the rest of the box elsewhere, like the strike side or the deck. 1 box could do a house with some left over.

People tend to use whatever bit is in the drill vs the correct bit you should be using with the larger pan head screws and just strip the hell out of the Phillips slots.