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Exterior metal door with wood core - needs repair @ bottom
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I have an exterior metal entry door and noticed that the doorsweep fell off the bottom. When I looked closer, I realized that the interior of the door is made of wood and the bottom INTERIOR frame of the door had rotted out completely and fallen away. Photo he https://i899.photobucket.com/albums/...psqhwr5yd2.jpg Rest of the door works fine and is solid so, ideally, I would like to just chisel out a little more of the rotten wood from the bottom, and replace with a new piece of wood in order to make it solid again. Has anyone had similar experience with such a door? Any pros/cons to repair? Maybe use treated wood with stainless screws? Thanks Theodore |
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Exterior metal door with wood core - needs repair @ bottom
On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 1:59:41 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Hi, I have an exterior metal entry door and noticed that the doorsweep fell off the bottom. When I looked closer, I realized that the interior of the door is made of wood and the bottom INTERIOR frame of the door had rotted out completely and fallen away. Photo he https://i899.photobucket.com/albums/...psqhwr5yd2.jpg Rest of the door works fine and is solid so, ideally, I would like to just chisel out a little more of the rotten wood from the bottom, and replace with a new piece of wood in order to make it solid again. Has anyone had similar experience with such a door? Any pros/cons to repair? Maybe use treated wood with stainless screws? Thanks Theodore To chisel it out to fit a new piece will be very difficult. I would remove the rot, scrape it out, then fill it with epoxy body filler. Sand it after a few minutes when it's hard, but still not super hard. You can get a quart of filler at Walmart for $8 or so. If the void is so large that you can fit in a new piece of pressure treated wood, you could do the filler first, then the new piece of wood. |
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