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  • Is Repair Care Fix and Flex the goto option to repair a wood door threshold that's a bit rotten on one side? It's below a PVC door.

    I'll also be removing the cabinet and splicing on a replacement end to the window sill in this post fairy soon.

  • Yes, there's only one competitor in the market and it's a little cheaper and a little bit less good. Timbabuild is the alt.

    You should watch as much tuition about it as possible. The extra tools like a die grinder, ir stripper and flappy wheel sander are helpful tools to have but not essential.

    Sometimes with a threshold it's easier to cut the old one out and use repair care to splice a new one in. Its not always necessary but you should decide how much rot you are dealing with early on and cut it right out by the quickest method. Allow about 3mm around the joints and you can add big chunks of wood leaving them to be planed off when it's dry.

    Its helpful to use perspex as a mould in some cases. It just peels off the repair care once it's dry. If you use the perspex, plan the sizes before you get mixing the repair care.

    Plan to use a lot of everbuild wipes. The repair care sticks to everything and you need a lot of wipes to stop sticky finger spreading everywhere around the house.

  • Excellent, thanks for the tips.
    I haven't seen the door yet, so the customers idea of a bit rotten and what prodding with a screwdriver finds may be wildly different!

    Have multi tool, palm sander, chisels and plane among other tools

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