Repairing an MDF door is a very interesting activity. Structurally, it consists of a frame on which MDF sheets are glued. The frame is usually made from wooden beam. The door is hollow from the inside, so it is light and not very strong.
Repairing an MDF door is no more difficult than fixing a "beetle" on the back of your favorite car. Although the easiest way, of course, is to buy a new one. But when finances sing romances and there is simply not enough money for a new one, folk ingenuity comes to the rescue.
The described repair methods will undoubtedly help you save a significant amount of money that you would have to pay for a new one.
When choosing the materials that you will use, you need to consider that you need to use those that are designed to work with wood, and not metal products.
Repairing an MDF door is not difficult at all. Before you start, you need to decide how much damage has been done to it. Depending on it, two types of repair can be distinguished:
- Scratch repair.
- Hole repair.
How to remove scratches
When repairing scratches on a door, you may need the following tools and materials:
- Sandpaper (marked from 150-200).
- Wood putty.
- Spatula for putty.
- Ground for wood.
- Enamel on wood (special two-component paint is used for MDF).
- Paint brush.
You can remove scratches from the surface of an MDF door with a non-oily colored wax retouching chalk. small scratches, cracks and small holes.
First you need to sand the scratch and the area around it about one centimeter with sandpaper. Then you need to clean the cleaned area of \u200b\u200bthe door from dust and small wooden particles.
The next step is to apply wood putty to the cleaned area, and then use a spatula to remove its remnants and at the same time try to make the surface perfectly even. After the putty dries, it must be re-cleaned in order to even out the remaining irregularities. Clean up with fine sandpaper.
It should be noted that putty should be applied to the MDF surface very carefully, trying not to make new scratches. To avoid this, you need to use rubber spatulas.
Then, on the treated area, apply an even layer of primer on the tree and wait for it to dry. After the primer has dried, we cover the entire door with an even layer of enamel (paint) on wood.
How to remove a hole
When repairing a hole, you must have the following materials and tools:
To repair the door, you will need the following tools: hammer, saw, planer, chisel, screwdrivers, pliers.
- Construction knife.
- Newspapers or something similar.
- Mounting foam.
- Polyester or epoxy resin (both can be purchased at any car market).
- Sandpaper (marked from 150-200).
- Wood putty.
- Putty knife.
- Ground for wood.
- The paint that was indicated for the first case.
- Paint brush.
When repairing a hole, you first need to cut a hole that will be slightly larger than itself. The easiest way to do this is with a utility knife. In this case, if possible, it is necessary to try to make a chamfer to a depth of about 0.5 cm.
Then from the inside, along the edges of the hole, you need to fill it with newspapers or just paper. If this is not done, then when filling the door, a very large amount of polyurethane foam. After that, the hole must be filled with mounting foam. As soon as the mounting foam dries, the protruding part of it must be cut off to get a flat surface.
A polyester or epoxy resin must be applied to the resulting surface to form a solid surface. This operation is best done with rubber gloves on, since the resin sticks easily when it comes into contact with the skin, and it can only be removed with a solvent. And the solvent, in turn, like the resin on the skin of the hands, can cause irritation.
As soon as the resin hardens, it is necessary to apply wood putty on it. The dried putty must be cleaned with sandpaper to get a smooth and even surface. Paper with the markings slightly above should be used.
After stripping the putty, it is required to apply primer on wood. It is best to do this several times with a time interval of at least 20 minutes. After the primer has dried, the selected paint must be applied to the surface of the entire MDF door.
It should be noted that the primer is best applied small paint brush A: This will help avoid divorce.
As can be seen from the foregoing, repairing an MDF door is not so difficult. And the time spent on do-it-yourself repairs compensates for a significant amount of money.
Often, hollow sashes are subject to impacts and other mechanical damage. This leads to the formation of scuffs, chips, and sometimes holes. Most of the damage can be repaired on your own and restore the original beauty of the structure. To close a hole in a fiberboard door, you need a minimum of material and a few tools.
Defect on wooden door you can fix it by hand. To do this, it is necessary to take into account the design of the door leaf, the presence of a pattern, and the features of damage.
materials
To fix the door, you will need the following materials:
- putty;
- sandpaper;
- special paint and varnish composition;
- epoxy or polyester resin;
- mounting foam;
- wood primer.
You should also prepare the following tools:
- spatula of the required width;
- brush for applying varnish;
- construction knife.
Step-by-step instruction
To close the hole, you must follow these instructions:
- The door is removed from its hinges and placed on a table, chairs or other flat surface.
- Using a construction knife, you need to make a hole. Recede from the edges a long distance and make an even cut.
- Then newspapers, paper or other materials are placed inside the canvas to give strength to the structure and reduce the consumption of mounting foam.
- After that, foam is poured inside the sash. After complete drying, all excess is removed with a knife. The coating can be poorly cleaned of foam residues, so a solvent must be used.
- To give the desired structural strength, the hole is coated with epoxy. It is necessary to work with it in rubber gloves.
- When the resin hardens, putty is applied. After drying, the surface is polished with fine-grained sandpaper.
- At the final stage, paintwork materials are applied. This process is preceded by covering the restored area with several layers of primer.
Repair of holes that do not have open slots is performed as follows:
- Using a drill and a drill, you need to make holes around the damaged area. This is necessary for uniform filling. inner space and prevent bending of the structure. The diameter of the drill should be slightly larger than the diameter of the foam bottle tube.
- The space under the crack is blown out with mounting foam. Excess should not come out of the holes, so as not to deform the doors. Possible problems at this stage are that with a large amount of foam, the surface may swell. If this happens, you will have to remove the door covering along with the foam to make a single plane.
- If the crack goes over the entire size of the canvas, the foam should be blown out carefully. It should fill not only the space under the crack, but also at least 8-10 cm on each side.
- After solidification, the residues are removed with a construction knife and polished.
- Then putty, primer and paint coatings are applied. Each subsequent layer is applied only after the previous one has completely dried.
For those who do not have woodworking skills, professionals advise masking a hole in the door leaf. The methods are as follows:
- The easiest option involves gluing the film. The choice of self-adhesive film is large enough to satisfy any customer.
- It will be very interesting to look at the mirror at the site of the hole. You can purchase both a small product and the entire door leaf. In doing so, it must be taken into account that big size mirrors will make the structure heavier. This can put pressure on the hinges.
- You can also place a poster or collage with your photos on the door.
Do-it-yourself things look best, because in addition to the decorating effect, they additionally create coziness and comfort in the room.
Hollow interior doors require more careful handling, due to their lightweight design, compared to solid ones. Well, if you didn’t protect such a door from impact, say, when you transferred it, then a good dent or even a hole will certainly appear in it. Of course, you can buy a new one, they are not so expensive, but in any case it is much cheaper to fix it yourself.
Hollow door repair with pattern restoration
So, the entire repair and restoration of a hollow door can be divided into five main stages:- Filling with mounting foam voids under the dent to give strength to the place for further processing.
- Surface putty.
- Making a stencil with the original wood pattern.
- Restoration of the pattern on the surface of the door.
- Painting.
We fill the voids with mounting foam
To fix the dent and fill the holes, we will use a universal mounting foam, which is used in construction and repair.
If the hole does not have open slots or holes, then they must be made by yourself, using a drill and a screwdriver.
The diameter of the drill, take a little more than the tube of the foam bottle.
We fill the space under the crack.
Let the foam harden. Usually this takes a day.
After hardening, we cut off the foam protruding from the holes and cracks flush.
We grind, removing paint from the restored area, making it smooth and even.
We putty the surface
When the surface is prepared, we proceed to putty, having previously primed the place of application.There are special requirements for putty, it must be on epoxy based so that the restored surface is durable. It is not difficult to buy or cook it yourself.
We use a rubber spatula.
We putty, filling in all the bumps and potholes.
It may be necessary to apply several layers to obtain the desired result.
Let it dry and then move on to the next step.
We make a form with a pattern
We find on the same door a plot of a similar size with a good texture of the pattern.
We gnaw it with rails.
And in order to fix everything and seal a kind of bath, we coat it with plasticine, clay or other plastic material.
Pour liquid rubber (or silicone rubber) into the resulting bath. Please note that the door should lie very evenly.
Distribute evenly over all surfaces. It is not necessary to make a very thick layer, somewhere around 5-7 mm.
We leave and wait for hardening. The time can be found in the instructions for use.
When the time has come, remove the sides, peel off the layer from the door.
The result should be a clear shape on a piece with rubber.
Restoring the wood pattern on the door
We make a side, about a millimeter thick, around the damaged area.
We take epoxy-based glue, mix the components. Apply the required amount to the area inside the frame.
The interior door is not the last element of the interior. Not only color, design, door material are important, but also the quality of installation. Competent installation and installation is half the success.
When installing a door, various situations arise: incorrect calculation of parameters, difficulties with installation, force majeure situations. As a result, the outcome may not be as rosy as it seemed at first. The resulting gaps spoil the view of the room, and not everyone knows what to do with them. The article discusses the most common causes cracks and how to eliminate them.
It is important to consider the material from which the door and frame are made. If they are made from natural wood, then this material can shrink or swell under certain conditions.
No matter how carefully you install the interior door in the opening, you could punch a hole or there were gaps between the box and the wall in some places. They spoil the appearance, but it is not difficult to repair them. Slots and holes can be small or large, around the perimeter or in some places. All these parameters will determine how to solve the problem.
The smoother the walls are, the better the door will look after installation.
Slits spoil not only the view of the room, they cease to close tightly, increase the transmission of extraneous sounds, and can play and clap in drafts. Special thermal insulation for interior doors is not required so this issue is not considered.
Sometimes gaps appear during operation: the previous plaster falls off, which hid flaws in the installation.
How to close the cracks and holes after installing the structure?
To fix defects after installation interior door apply different ways, among them you can even meet such rare ones as finishing decorative stone or tiles. Here, owners are more often guided general characteristics design, interior features.
If several methods are applicable for design, then the choice is made based on financial capabilities or relying on the taste of the owner. The choice depends entirely on preferences, and the result depends on the quality of the sealing of the cracks.
Mounting foam
Between the wall and the box, it is necessary to foam the space. You can not install an interior door close to the wall, this will reduce the reliability of the structure. This gap should not exceed 2 cm.
When working with foam, it is necessary to protect the coating of the door and frame from its ingress., then it will be difficult to clean this material.
If the installation of the door is performed by specialists, then they themselves will fill the space with foam.
If the installation is done by yourself:
- the temperature in the room should be +5 - +30 degrees;
- moisten the opening to be filled with water;
- the balloon is kept upside down;
- fill no more than 1/3 of the total space;
- you have to start from the bottom.
For use in the installation of interior doors, one-component semi-professional foam is sufficient. It will dry in a day, then the excess must be cut off with a knife, sealed with putty.
putty
After filling the gap appearance doors don't always get better. If the gaps were very small, then nothing else would have to be done, and if a little more, then the foam would spoil the whole aesthetics. You can then choose another option depending on the interior.
Despite the ease of use, putty can aggressively affect the material of the door, and therefore you need to be more careful in choosing the material, take care of protecting the door leaf and platbands. In more simple version after drying, the putty can be covered with wallpaper or painted.
Fabric or curtains
One of the ideas that are gaining popularity is fabric trim. If the gaps are small enough, you can not use putty or mounting foam: curtains or decoration with material will come to the rescue.
The original look of the door leaf is guaranteed, the main thing is that there are no traces of glue left on the fabric, otherwise the whole look will deteriorate. It is better to overcast the edges, remove all threads that can hang out. This decoration is especially easy for patchwork lovers. The fabric looks beautiful in the interior instead of a glass door insert or as a curtain, fixed with beautiful carnations or an unusual pendant.
Plastic
Plastic self-adhesive tapes will look beautiful. You can also use simple plastic to close the zone, but you need to attach it with something else, and the tapes make it easier to lay the material.
Attention! Plastic self-adhesive tapes wear out quickly require periodic replacement.
Before gluing the tape, you need to clean the place of dust and litter, degrease it, and it is better to stick it from top to bottom - it's more convenient. The protective paper is removed as the tape is applied. It is necessary to gently press the material to the surface for good adhesion.
You can take cheaper tapes: they do not have an adhesive base, then you will have to apply glue yourself or fix it with nails.
Cracked plastic strips hide flaws well, but they also require additional fastening, which will be provided by nails or screws.
How to do the job yourself: termination instructions
In addition to these methods, you can use silicone paste to seal gaps in interior doors. It is sold in tubes, and for work you will need a special gun.
- In order not to stain the canvas and platbands, it is necessary to treat them with petroleum jelly or stick masking tape.
- Load the gun, adjust the amount of incoming material.
- Apply the paste at an angle of 45 0, moving slowly over the surface, without undue haste.
- The door is kept closed until the material dries, the period is indicated on the packaging or in the instructions.
- After this time, you can open it, then remove the excess paste.
This method is simple, but gives high-quality sealing. Good for rooms with high humidity, for example, for the bathroom or kitchen.
After all, plastic is a cheap and simple material that will suit most modern interiors. To close the cracks, a molding is applied. You need to determine its size, shape and color. You can fix it with nails or glue. You don't have to take any special steps. Sometimes you can make plastic slopes:
- install guide profiles on the prepared surface;
- cut parts from purchased plastic with a jigsaw;
- work starts from the side walls from the entrance side and ends with the ceiling;
- close the edges with special plugs in the form of corners;
- sealant to go through all the seams and joints.
The wider the slope, the better the ribbed plastic looks. Laying it should be done horizontally.
Dobors have also become popular. You can attach them either to the box, or to the doorway itself. Mounting glue or self-tapping screws (at the discretion of the owner) can hold them, close the hats with plugs or putty.
The allowances are divided:
- on ordinary ones - they resemble slats with veneer;
- telescopic or type-setting - expand the opening, look like a lining;
- combined - rather, they look like a decorative corner.
When attaching extensions, the vertical of the wall cannot have a deviation of more than 4 mm so accurate measurements are required.
After all the calculations of the work, it is necessary to carefully and consistently adhere to this algorithm of actions:
- Cut the board into pieces right size.
- The box is mounted, extensions are attached to it.
- The resulting structure is installed in the opening.
- Wedges are placed in the interstitial space, which regulate the structure until the desired position is reached.
- The entire space between the wall and the box is foamed in three stages. Each subsequent one is applied strictly on the completely dried previous one.
- The surface is plastered.
- Closed with platbands.
This method allows you to make all the doors in the same style. It is important to correctly measure and install. Plus - the color of the material and texture can be taken similar.
If you plan to use an add-on, then it is better door frame buy with a groove, which will facilitate the installation of additional parts.
Attention
For the installation of extensions in the interior space, it is good to use liquid nails as fasteners.
To beautifully and neatly close the gaps in the interior door, there are many ways. Of these, you can choose one that will be closer to the interior design, will be affordable, decorate the room. Any of the described options is widely used in the repair and installation of doors.
This problem can happen in every home. But do not rush to run to the store for a new door! I propose to read, consider the causes and ways to solve this situation.
Possible reasons
Damage may occur due to impact, scratches, chemicals, UV radiation. Exit - repair or replacement. But buying a new door is not for everyone. Before proceeding with the repair, we will establish the exact cause. They are different: cracks, gaps, rubbing, peeling of the coating, loosening of fasteners, decay (typical for basements, cellars).
Troubleshooting
If there are a lot of scratches and cracks on the door, they can be removed with the help of an improvised tool - wood putty. It is advisable to pick it up to match the door, apply it to the damaged surface and rub it with sandpaper.
Holes are closed in the same way. But if the recess is large, use mounting foam: first, the area is foamed, a layer of putty is applied on top and rubbed.
If a narrow hole is drilled to the desired size, a dowel can be used. Such a wooden product is driven into a recess and the surface is ground.
To avoid gaps, a bar is selected that repeats the size of the canvas and is stuffed into the problem area.
Corners are often damaged. In this case, they are removed, and plywood blanks are put in their place. If the section is broken, you can make a hook out of wire, use it to connect the edges of the hole, process them with wood glue and press them together. You should wait for drying, clean the joint and cover with a fixative on top. You can cut a patch from fiberboard and attach it to the hole. If the scale of the site is too large, the option for an ordinary wooden door is suitable.
Most often, chipboard owners are faced with their soaking and delamination. This is how holes appear. Glue and a syringe will come in handy in the repair. We set the door in a horizontal position, pour glue into the recess, connect the edges and cover with a press from above. After drying, it is required to process the edge with a protective tape to avoid recurrence.
To repair this type of door, a hole is cut around the hole. Usually, a little more than herself. It is recommended to chamfer to a depth of about 0.5 cm. In order to save mounting foam, the recess is stuffed with paper. After it dries, the excess protruding sections are cut off. Epoxy resin is applied to a flat surface. After hardening, the surface is covered with wood putty, which, subsequently, is rubbed with sandpaper. Then the primer is applied to the wood. Coloring at will.
Decor restoration
The final chord is the restoration of the coating with varnish, paint, stain. Tinted putty - great choice for a wooden door. It needs to be varnished. Stain is popular: it deeply impregnates and stains wood for a long time. Chipboard doors are lined with laminate. Don't forget to cover first. door leaf water repellent. Facing with veneer or film will get rid of minor defects.
Instructions on how to repair the doors in which a hole has formed and get rid of other defects will help you to spend your leisure time usefully and save a significant amount of money.
