Old Door Restoration
Not bad for a 100 year old door frame.
Old door restoration. Re purposed antique or vintage barn doors are popular for adding sliding doors. A full door restoration will ensure your doors are protected from their surroundings be it humidity or the effects of weather. Repairing an antique door an antique door is a unique problem because it s a small enough job that it seems fairly easy but important enough that you don t want to mess up since doors are so highly visible. The cost is fairly low.
Antique or vintage front doors can be panel doors which can be simple yet stately or they can be innately carved. Some offer reasonably priced waxing varnishing or painting services as well. If you are thinking it doesn t look too bad you would be right. Olde good things is proud to offer a wide range of exterior and interior antique and vintage doors.
There s no sense in going any finer dee says. This way you can separate interior spaces without taking up space when you want the antique door to be open. Restoration resources carries hundreds of old period doors circa 1850 1940 including interior pocket and entrance doors in many traditional styles wood types and sizes generally ranging in price from 50 to 500. The most common repair that needs to be done on antique doors is usually patching old hinge gains and latch holes with a wood dutchman.
With the door resting on padded sawhorses use a random orbit sander with 80 grit paper to quickly remove what remains of the old varnish and sun baked flakes of wood. 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. When restoring an old door getting your doors dipped is the cheapest option. Sand the wood again with 100 grit paper then 120 grit.
The original edwardian internal doors throughout the house were boarded up when we moved in. Decay might make your door look unsalvageable but this is simply not the case.