Restoration of old wooden doors

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

A competently renovated wooden door leaf looks like a new one. It is not very difficult to do it yourself. How to update the old wooden door is described below.

Tools and materials necessary for restoration of doors

A small tool kit available in any house is needed to update old wooden doors. You will need a rupture, chisel or chisel, hammer, rasp and files of a different profile. It is good to have grinding, screwdriver and construction hairdryer. At the final stage, a spatula and brushes will be needed.

It should be stockpons and consumables:

1. Grinding paper (peel);
2. Varnishing or paint;
3. Wood putty;
4. PVA aluminum or joiner;
5. Liquid for washing the old layer of paint or varnish;
6. Expendable edged bars, preferably the same tree species as the doors;
7. Self-tapping screws and nails.

Materials and tools are selected taking into account the nature of the damage to the wooden canvas of the restored doors and the alleged amount of work. Sometimes it is enough to remove the old layer of varnish or paint and refresh the old wooden door. Other situations require major overhaul.

Removing the old layer of varnish or paint

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 loops and is installed in the horizontal plane. The brush is evenly applied to the paint coil.
2. The processed canvas, is maintained, usually within an hour. Paint begins to soften and separate from wood. Spatulas of different widths, smooth progressive movements removed the old layer.
3. Sometimes the washing is not enough. The paint is very old or the door is covered with many layers and the means for washing is not able to impregnate them completely. Then you use a construction hairdryer or a more aggressive unit - a soldering lamp.
4. Small sections of the old wooden door canvase warm up to the moment until the paint layer becomes bubble and fall behind the wood. The dispersion paint is removed by a spatula.
5. The door canvas released from the old layer of paint and grinds. First coarse sandpaper, and then finely dispersed. Well, if there is a grinding machine for this. But manually can also fasten the sandpaper on the grinding grater.
6. On the prepared door you can apply a new layer of paint or. This is done in the horizontal position of the door.

Restoration of wooden doors under varnish

Several more difficult to restore the door under the coating of varnish. Transparent or translucent coating - reveals all defects. In order to hide visual flaws, special proofreaders, simulators and colored varnishes of darker tones are applied.

1. The removal of the lacquer layer is produced above in the method described.
2. Grinding is made along the longitudinal direction of the fibers. The surface of the processed canvas after the Okurization is thoroughly cleaned from dust.
3. Sluts and other small damage, put on with a mask or a special putty on the tree. After drying, damaged places are maintained and squeaked.
4. Small proofreaders - can help hide defects and achieve the perfect collar of the color of the renovated area and the base web. Correct the position can be a vessel with a wood or colored varnish. Dark and saturated consistency of the simulator or varnish, disassembled renovated places.
5. Varnish is applied with roller, flint brush or foam tampon. The ideal restoration of the old wooden door provides a varnish coating from two to four layers. After drying the door leaf, the coating is additionally polished with a felt or felt sponge.

Veneers of wooden doors

1. To restore old wooden doors, veneer applies. In this case, a set of decorative plates and plates is acquired to create the effect of the panel structure of the basic array of the door leaf.
2. There is a large selection of consumables for various colors and configurations, on an adhesive basis, which removes the question than to sheathe the old wooden door.
3. On the prepared surface of the old wooden door, selected pulley-based fillets are stacked. They are welded with the help of an ordinary household iron. It is important not to reap and not overlay the facial part.
4. Pads that do not have self-adhesive coverage are sled to PVA or joinery glue. On the cleaned back side of the panel, the glue is applied to a smooth layer. It is withstanding a pause of 10-15 minutes. And tightly pressed at a pre-placed place.
5. The linings can be fixed with clamps with rubber or wooden strips or sandbags. In this position, the door is up to the complete drying of the glue.
6. The final stage is the removal of glue residues, squeaking and coating of repaired old wooden doors lacquer or paint guided by one of the above methods.