Restoration of old wooden doors

To restore old wooden doors is much more appropriate than buying new ones. There are several convincing reasons for this. Now the doors made of natural wood are very expensive, and the beautiful doors from MDF or chipboard are short -lived. Your old wooden door has already been lost and settled in its place, and the decision to restore it will be correct.

A competently restored wooden door leaf looks like new. It is not very difficult to do it yourself.   About how to update the old wooden door is described below.

Tools and materials necessary for the restoration of doors

A small set of tools available in any house is needed to update old wooden doors. You will need a rubble, chisel or chisel, hammer, rashpil and files of various profiles. It is good to have a grinder, a screwdriver and a construction hair dryer. At the final stage, a spatula and brushes will be needed.

Should be stock up and consumables:

1. Grinding paper (skin);
2. Varnish, stain or paint;
3. Wood putty;
4. PVA glue or carpentry;
5. Fluid for washing the old layer of paint or varnish;
6. Consumable trimmed bars, preferably the same tree breed as the doors;
7. Wood and nail screws.

Materials and tools are selected taking into account the nature of damage to the wooden canvas of restored doors and the estimated volume of work. Sometimes it is enough to remove the old layer of varnish or paint and refresh the old wooden door. In other situations, overhaul is required.

Removing the old layer of varnish or paint

There are two ways to remove the old paint. A special solvent to remove the old paint and the hot method.

1. The restored door is removed from the hinges and installed in a horizontal plane. A means of washing the paint is evenly applied with a brush.
2. The processed canvas is maintained, usually within an hour. The paint begins to soften and separate from wood. Spatulas of different widths, smooth progressive movements are removed by the old layer.
3. Sometimes washing is not enough. The paint is very old or the door is covered with many layers and the washing tool is not able to soak them completely. Then a construction hair dryer or a more aggressive unit - a soldering lamp will come in handy.
4. Small sections of the old wooden door leaf are heated until the layer of paint does not bubulate and lag behind the wood. The heated paint is removed with a spatula.
5. The door leaf freed from the old layer is putty and grinds. First with coarse -grained sandpaper, and then thinly dispersed. It is good if there is a grinding machine for this. But you can manually, fixing the sandpaper on a grinding grater.
6. A new layer of paint or. This is done in the horizontal position of the door.

Restoration of wooden doors for varnish

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

1. Removing the varnish layer is carried out above the described method.
2. Grinding is carried out in the longitudinal direction of the fibers. The surface of the processed canvas after fabling is thoroughly cleaned of dust.
3. The cracks and other minor damage are put up with a putty or a special putty on wood. After drying, the damaged places are grinning and emphasized.
4. Loars of proofreaders - can help hide defects and achieve the perfect coincidence of the color of a restored area and base canvas. You can fix the situation with a stain on wood or colored varnish. The darker and saturated consistency of the stain or varnish, disguises the restored places.
5. The varnish is applied with a roller, a flute brush or a foam tampon. The perfect restoration of the old wooden door provides for a varnish coating from two to four layers. After drying the door leaf, the coating is additionally polished by a felt or felt sponge.

Sponge of wooden doors

1. To restore old wooden doors, veneration is used. In this case, a set of decorative plates and rails is purchased to create the effect of a fileal structure of the basic massif of the door leaf.
2. There is a large selection of consumables of various colors and configurations, on an adhesive basis, which relieves the question of how to sheathe the old wooden door.
3. Selected Philineral overlays on an adhesive base are laid on the prepared surface of the old wooden door. They are welded using a conventional household iron. It is important not to overexpose and not overheat the front part.
4. Layers that do not have a self -adhesive coating are planted on PVA glue or carpentry glue. A glue is applied to the cleaned back of the phicenka, an even layer is applied. A pause is withstanding at 10-15 minutes. And tightly pressed in a pre -marked place.
5. The linings can be fixed with clamps with rubber or wooden gaskets or sandbags. In this position, the door is until the glue dries completely.
6. The final stage is the removal of glue residues, the emphasizing and coating of renovated old wooden doors with varnish or paint guided by one of the above methods.