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If the wood is a bit shit - i.e. full of knots - then (to repeat Airhead's advice) you gotta hit the knots with heat from a gun to push the sap out, then sand, then treat the knotty shitty bits with knotting fluid (liberon do some that worked in my experience), fill any cracks with filler, then prime the fuck out of it before hitting with some good quality exterior paint. It's a lot of work.
Looking at those doors, I wonder if you could make some out of hardwood deck boards.
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I don't think DIY door chat is allowed in this thread?
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Looking at those doors, I wonder if you could make some out of hardwood deck boards.
I can't imagine it's any harder than making some garage doors (which I easily have the ability to do BTW) - it's more the time cost.
I'd still have to paint and fit anything I make. My dad suggested I check with a carpenter for how much it would cost to get some made, but I assume they'd want a couple of k, assuming anyone would quote in the first place.
On the heat gunning the knotts - why can't I just use something like colron knotting solution on its own? Why do they need blasting first?
kkg337
hugo7
I was planning on doing that, but honestly a good ⅓ of the bottom of the door is fucked.
It was just painted before we bought. Then our tentants smashed in the bottom and blamed it on the oddest break in ever (I assume in reality their son did it playing football or something).
The doors I'm looking at are made from 15mm "good quality European 5th Redwood". Although you've made me a bit nervous about what gets delivered. There's a bit of flex in the price, but as someone else is buying them for us as a gift I don't want to take the piss.