Holy Crikey wrote:
I have squeaking front and garage entrance door hinges in my house I
need to spray with lubrication during the winter because it gets so
loud. I used WD-40 a couple of times, but the irritating noise would
come back only after a few days.

Someone told me to give silicone spray a try, so I might do that, but
thought I'd pose a question in here to learn when using one over the
other is better.

Is metal on metal contact for WD-40 and the silicone spray for
everything else? Please clarify. Thanks!

The simplest and maybe the best solution is to
clean the hinge with WD40 and then oil it with any
any 20 or 30 weight oil. The most thorough way is
to pop each pin up until each pin engages only one
loop on the frame half of the hinge and one loop
on the door half of the hinge is engaged by the
pin. Then put oil on a Q-tip and push it up
through the hinge loops and all over the exposed
pin. Then just pound the pin down into place.

If you cannot or are afraid of popping the pins
up, then put oil at each loop, swing the door, add
more oil, wipe most off, and after two days the
oil should have seeped to all hinge surfaces.
Throughly clean (wipe) any oil off the hinges.

Graphite in oil (Lock-ease) also works very well.