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Old wood door restoration.
How to restore your old wood front door.
Our current inventory of antique interior doors includes entry doors cabinet doors commercial doors closet doors standard doors french doors and pocket doors.
It takes paint well and won t rot.
A wood front door is a great feature when it comes to your home s curb appeal.
On this weekend workbench segment blake sloane of the rebuilding exchange helps ryan restore a sad old door without sanding stripping or any hard chemical.
Wood entry doors everywhere suffer from the same assaults and many end up in the trash replaced by low maintenance mass produced metal and fiberglass surrogates.
Over time we have tried tested and perfected new and innovative methods for wooden door restoration combining modern techniques with good old fashioned knowledge and craftsmanship.
Antique or vintage metal doors are usually found on the exterior of the home.
Cast iron and other metal doors may be used for decoration or as gates.
Our antique doors have been sourced by our reclamation specialists who find artifacts from the turn of the century and the pre war eras.
You can mold and shape it to match the original wood profile.
Depending on the location and extent of wood damage you may or may not have to disassemble the door to carry out a repair i may replace an entire component such as a rail or stile or splice in a new section of a component using a strong splice joint such as a scarf or half lap which also can be doweled if desired.
The glass panels can be used as accents for the door or may make up the majority of the doors design.
Then coat the rotted door frame area with wood hardener.
However years of exposure to sunlight rain snow and frost can significantly damage an exterior wood door and leave it looking worn out.
With regular maintenance your.
While most antique wood doors use regular glass others have stained glass for accents.
Working on wooden door and window restoration for many years we have gained substantial expertise in the field.
But homeowners belinda chase and scott oja were determined to save this door they knew the value of the antique with its oval light of rippled mouth blown glass and its sturdy.