"Colbyt" wrote in
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"aemeijers" wrote in message
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Apologies in advance for putting a home repair question in this
political round table. :^/

Now that I am driving to and from work in daylight again, I noticed a
problem on the bottom panel of my hardboard-skinned (with fake
woodgrain) Dalton garage door. On one end, where it meets the stop
strip, water or bugs or animals have been chewing away at the stop
strip and door surface, like giant rats were trying to get into my
garage. The stop strip, I can replace pretty easily. But there is a
triangle-shaped section of the door panel surface layer where the top
layer with the fake woodgrain is actually gone- it isn't through to
the insulation layer, but the surface that is now exposed is beyond
merely touching up with paint.

Any ideas on a cheap painless fix? Aside from this one chewed-on
spot, the door is in pretty decent condition, and works well. Epoxy
wood fill slathered on? Bondo? A big piece of aluminum tape? I need
to do something before it gets much worse, since a new door would not
pay for itself at resale. I presume I need to wait for several dry
sunny days in a row, so it is all dried out, before I attempt any
repair?

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aem sends

The policitcal hacks will have to bear with you on this one.

What is the door made from?

I have done some amazing to me repairs using bondo. If one takes the
time to carve and shape it after curing you can do about anything. I
have done this on both Aluminum siding and several different forms of
wood. Doors, windows, window sills and shashes, baseboard and aluminim
siding they all seem to turn out well if you spend a little time with
the prep.

If the edge is gone use a paint stick or other control to get the
straight edge, you can round it off later with a palm sander.

I have never used epoxy wood fill. I suspect the wood grain would be
hard to carve in after the repair.



the woodworking stores used to have a rubber stamp for putting "wood grain"
into finishes.they might stil carry it.
It probably won't match what he already has on the garage door.

If using Bondo,I'd form some window screening mesh to fit the large missing
areas to provide reinforcement(or add chopped glass fiber),since Bondo is
only supposed to be used in THIN layers.



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Jim Yanik
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