Restoration of old wooden doors

renovated old wooden doors is much more appropriate than to buy new ones.There are a few good reasons.Now the doors of natural wood are very expensive and beautiful doors from MDF or particle board - short-lived.Your old wooden door already got used and established in its place, and the decision to restore it would be.

Smartly renovated wooden door leafIt looks like new.Independently make it not so difficult.For information on how to update the old wooden door - described below.

Tools and materials required for the restoration of doors

small set of tools available in any home need to update the old wooden doors.You will need a planer, chisel or a chisel, hammer, rasp and Files in different fields.Good to have a sander, screwdriver and building a hairdryer.At the final stage will need a spatula and brush.

should be reserved and consumables:

1. Abrasive paper (paper);
2. Varnish, stain or paint;
3. putty for wood;
4. PVA glue or carpenter;
5. fluid layer of old paint or varnish removers;
6. Consumables Eaves bars, preferably of the same type of wood as the door;
7. Screws for wood and nails.

Materials and tools selected according to the nature of damages recoverable wooden canvas doors and anticipated workload.Sometimes it is enough to remove the old layer of varnish or paint and brush up on an old wooden door.In other situations, it requires major repairs.

Removal of old coats of varnish or paint

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

1. restorative door removed from its hinges and set in a horizontal plane.Brush evenly applied agent for paint removers.
2. The treated fabric, aged, usually within an hour.Painting begins to soften and separate from the timber.Spatulas of different width, flowing forth motions removes the old layer.
3. Sometimes washing is not enough.The paint is very old, or the door is covered with multiple layers and means for washing is unable to impregnate them completely.Then you will come in handy hair dryer building or a more aggressive unit - a blowtorch.
4. small areas of old wooden door leaf is warmed up to the moment when the layer of paint will not blister and keep up with wood.Preheat the paint is removed with a spatula.
5. Freed from the old layer of paint door leaf puttied and polished.First, coarse sandpaper, then fine.Well if you have this grinder.But you can manually securing the sandpaper on a sanding grater.
6. can be applied to a new layer of paint on the door or prepared.This is done in the horizontal position of the door.

Restoration wooden door under a varnish

somewhat more difficult to restore the door under the varnish.A transparent or translucent coating - reveals all the defects.In order to hide the visual flaws, use special correctors, stain and varnish colored darker tones.

1. Removing lacquer layer is produced above described method.
2. Grinding is done in the longitudinal direction of the fibers.The surface of the treated fabric after sanding thoroughly cleaned of dust.
3. Slots and other minor injuries, shpaklyuyut special putty or wood putty.Once dry, damaged areas and oshkurivayutsya overwritten.
4. Crayons proofreaders - can help to hide defects and achieve the perfect color match and a restored section of the base fabric.Correct position can stain wood or colored lacquer.More dark and rich texture stain or varnish, mask the renovated space.
5. varnish applied with a roller, brush or hammers finishing foam pad.Perfect restoration of old wooden door provides varnish from two to four layers.After drying, the leaf, the coating further polished with felt or felt-sponzhikom.

Veneering wooden doors

1. to restore old wooden doors used veneering.In such a case, it sold set of decorative plates and rods to create the effect paneled structure of the underlying array of the door leaf.
2. There is a large selection of consumables of different colors and configurations, based on the adhesive that removes the question than to sheathe the wooden door of the old.
3. on the prepared surface of an old wooden door, stacked selected paneled lining the adhesive base.They are welded by a conventional household iron.It is important not to overdo and do not overheat the front part.
4. pads that do not have a self-adhesive coating - are thrown on the PVA glue or carpenter's glue.On the stripped back side panels, an even layer of glue is applied.Pauses at 10 15 min.and tightly pressed to the pre-marked area.
5. pads can be fixed clamps with rubber or wooden spacers or bags with sand.In this position the door is until the adhesive dries.
6. final stage - removal of residual adhesive, coating and sanding renovated old wooden doors with varnish or paint guided by one of the methods described above.