Restoration of old wooden doors

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It is much more expedient to restore old wooden doors than to buy new ones. There are several compelling reasons for this. Now, doors made of natural wood are very expensive, and beautiful doors made of MDF or chipboard are short-lived. Your old wooden door has already become fastened and settled in its place, and the decision to restore it will be correct.

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Properly restored wooden door leaf looks like new. It is not very difficult to do this on your own. How to update an old wooden door is described below.

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Tools and materials required for the restoration of doors

A small set of tools available in any home is needed to update old wooden doors. You will need a plane, chisel or chisel, a hammer, a rasp and files of different profiles. It is good to have a sanding machine, a screwdriver and a construction hair dryer. At the final stage, you will need a spatula and a brush.

It should be stocked and consumables:

  1. Sandpaper( skin);
  2. Varnish, stain or paint;
  3. Putty on wood;
  4. PVA glue or joiner;
  5. Liquid for washing old paint or varnish;
  6. Consumable edging bars, preferably of the same kind of wood as doors;Screws for wood and nails.

Materials and tools are selected taking into account the nature of the damage to the wooden canvas of the doors being reconstructed and the estimated amount of work. Sometimes it is enough to remove the old layer of varnish or paint and freshen the old wooden door. In other situations, major repairs are required.

Removing an old layer of paint or paint

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There are two ways to remove old paint. Special solvent for removing old paint and hot method.

  1. The restored door is removed from the hinges and installed in a horizontal plane. Brush evenly applied to paint remover.
  2. Treated canvas, aged, usually within an hour. The paint begins to soften and separate from the wood. With spatulas of different widths, the old layer is removed smoothly by progressive movements.
  3. Sometimes the washing is not enough. The paint is very old or the door is covered with many layers and the remover is not able to soak completely. Then you need a building hair dryer or a more aggressive unit - a blowtorch.
  4. Small sections of the old wooden door leaf are warmed up until the paint layer begins to bubble and fall behind the wood. The heated paint is removed with a spatula.
  5. The door leaf freed from the old paint layer shpaklyuetsya and polished. First, coarse-grained sandpaper, then finely divided. Well if there is a grinder for this. But it is possible and manually, having fixed an emery paper on a grinding grater.
  6. You can apply a new coat of paint to the prepared door or. This is done in the horizontal position of the door.

Restoration of wooden doors for varnish

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It is somewhat more difficult to restore the door under varnish. Transparent or translucent coating - reveals all the defects. In order to hide visual flaws, special correctors, stains and colored varnishes of darker colors are used.

  1. Removal of lacquer layer is done in the manner described above.
  2. Grinding is done along the longitudinal direction of the fibers. The surface of the treated web after sanding is thoroughly cleaned of dust.
  3. Slots and other small damage, shpaklyutsya putty or special putty on wood. After drying, the damaged areas are rubbed and sanded.
  4. Crayons correctors - can help to hide defects and achieve the perfect match of the color of the restored section and the base sheet. Correct position can be stained wood or colored varnish. A darker and more saturated consistency of stain or varnish, disguises the restored places.
  5. The varnish is applied with a roller, a flute brush or a foam rubber swab. Ideal restoration of the old wooden door provides a varnish covering from two to four layers. After the door leaf dries, the coating is additionally polished with a felt or felt sponge.

Wood door veneer

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  1. For the restoration of old wooden doors, veneering is used. In this case, a set of decorative plates and racks is purchased to create the effect of the panel structure of the base array of the door leaf.
  2. There is a large selection of consumables of different colors and configurations, on an adhesive basis, which removes the issue than to cover the door with an old wooden one.
  3. On the prepared surface of the old wooden door, the selected paneled overlays are laid on the glue base. They are welded with a conventional household iron. It is important not to overstay and do not overheat the facial part.
  4. Lining that does not have a self-adhesive coating - sits on PVA glue or joiner glue. On the cleaned back side of the panel, glue is applied evenly. A pause is maintained for 10-15 minutes.and tightly pressed on a pre-marked place.
  5. Cover plates can be fixed with clamps with rubber or wooden gaskets or bags of sand. In this position, the door is until the glue dries completely.
  6. The final stage is the removal of adhesive residues, sanding and coating of repaired old wooden doors with varnish or paint, guided by one of the methods described above.

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