Restoring Old Interior Doors

Scraping sanding and restaining will only take about one hour.
Restoring old interior doors. You don t want to sand through to bare. Take off all the door hardware including the knob hinges and latch with a screwdriver. How to restore old doors 1. Apply final coat and reattach hardware after the finish has dried overnight gently hand sand it with 220 grit paper.
On this weekend workbench segment blake sloane of the rebuilding exchange helps ryan restore a sad old door without sanding stripping or any hard chemical. Remove as much of the old. It s easy to fix the finish on windows when it begins to flake and fade. How to restore wood doors 1.
Deep clean wood doors. Take a pad of fine steel wool to. Pull the hinge pins and take the door down. I glued and nailed each length of trim on the door to create a raised panel appearanc.
Carefully remove the wood cover of the casement operator or other piece of trim and use it to match the stain. In this video i use inexpensive trim to update an old door in my house. If the door has a window. Wearing gloves pour some wax and polish remover into a bowl.
The screws used in the construction of this timber door were counter bored and the heads should have. When that s dry. Lat it flat on a pair of sawhorses and cover the ground with a drop cloth.