Thread: Need some advice on repairing damaged door

Broadly speaking that would be the best approach. Don't cut it down exactly 19mm, leave a bit more meat on it. You can always remove a bit of excess material, but it can't be added on very easily. That door looks like Oregon (Douglas Fir).

Aldav is spot on , do as he says

Hi Catherine, I've had to fix similar problems over the years.
Generally you want to keep as much of the original door as possible.
If the deepest cut is say 12mm too deep, set up a straight edge and a circular saw to take off 11mm.
Then plane the last bit to leave a clean edge.
Select the timber you are going to do the repair with, plane a face smooth.
At the saw bench, rip it 13mm thick by 35mm - leave the saw marks. Cut it to length.
Find/or cut some pieces of 3-6mm ply or timber about 50mm square. You will need about 15 of them and some 25-30mm nails - 2 per square.

Now the fun part.
Glue the strip of timber to the door, Planed faces together, flush at the top.
Temporarily hold them in place by tacking with a nail every 600mm or so.
Make sure that the new piece of timber overhangs the sides by an equal amount by feel.

Your 50mm squares are your clamps.
Nail one near the top using 2 nails.
Hammer the nails home, this provides the clamping action.
Repeat every 150mm and one near the bottom.
If there is one of the tack nails in the way, pull it out.

Once the glue has dried, use the hammer to ease the squares off.
If any nails pull through, you will have enough head showing to pull them out with the hammer claw.

If any trimming to length is required do that next (saw and/or Plane).
Plane flush to sides of door, then to finial door width.

Mark the centre line of the latch mechanism and re-drill the hole and mortise for the latch.

Cheers
David

Originally Posted by aldav

That door looks like Oregon (Douglas Fir).

My husband reckons it's king billy or baltic pine but I'm not good at identifying wood types myself. We were going to strip all the paint off to show off the wood but unfortunately it will now have to be painted again to cover the repairs.
Catherine

Originally Posted by DTH1

Hi Catherine, I've had to fix similar problems over the years.

Thank you for your detailed reply David. Much appreciated.
Catherine

I do think if you trimmed it off neatly then glued a piece of Oregon on there and flushed it off, you could still varnish it snd it would take an educated eye to see the repair