Door
Restoration

Lymm, Cheshire · Residential

Timber French doors and a UPVC door, both chewed and scratched by the dog. A threshold rotted through and hanging off, edges torn away, and a chip with a section missing. All of it rebuilt in resin and refinished over two working days.

Before

After

The French doors

Before

Initial
condition.

Both doors were photographed before any work began. The repairs are measured against these.

The timber French doors before work began

The French door damage up close, torn and scratched

The French doors with the broken threshold below

The UPVC door with a chip and a missing section

The rebuild

Some of the work,
start to finish.

A sample of the repairs, photographed from the damage as we found it through to the finish it was left with. There were others across both doors.

The broken threshold, rotten wood breaking away in the hand

The threshold treated with stabilising solution

The threshold

Hanging off, with rotten wood breaking up in the corners. The rot was cut out, the threshold pinned back and the corners rebuilt in resin, then sanded and painted with the doors.

The door treated with stabilising solution

The French doors

Faces and edges broken down, with claw marks around the rubber trim. Dug out, cleaned and rebuilt in resin, then sharpened back to a line between coats.

The UPVC door

A chip with a section missing and scratches across the face. Rebuilt in resin and sanded level, the scratches filled, the face keyed by hand, then three coats of a finish that bonds to UPVC.

Finished