How to make a new one from an old door: we choose an option

How to update the doors of the old many know, but can not do it right. There are a lot of options. In this article we will consider options for how to update the old doors in the apartment.

For this there are many materials in retail. After all, it is not always affordable to buy a new one; the price of high-quality products is quite high. Let's take a look at the steps how to make a new one out of the old door.

Surface preparation

Updating the old door with your own hands begins with this work. After all, not properly prepared plane will bring a lot of trouble later.

And now directly, the old door how to upgrade. Most importantly, to prepare you do not need to pay anything, with your own hands you can do everything qualitatively.

So:

• First you need to remove and put in a convenient place. Nothing should interfere. Immediately remove and all accessories. Do the same with beadings;
• To restore the old doors, we now need to remove the old cover. To do this, take a simple hair dryer and start to warm the surface. The paint then begins to swell and bubbles (see How to remove the old paint from the door and cover with new material)
• Now the restoration of old doors continue to do a spatula. We take and just remove the paint;

Attention: At one time remove all the paint will not work. After the first time, we warm up the places where the detachment did not occur and work with a spatula on a new one. On the plane there are notches. They remove the paint with an angle spatula.

• Now we take the sandpaper and start grinding the plane. Only it must first be put on a flat bar. Then our plane will be flat;
• After the average, we make sandpaper processing more fine and at the end of the smallest. It will already be polished;

New design of old doors can not be applied immediately. After all, there are also recesses and possibly cracks in the plane.

Therefore, we proceed as follows:

• In retail, you need to buy putty wood. Or you can do it yourself. To do this, small sawdust just need to be mixed with white glue;
• We take a spatula and putty all irregularities;
• We give the surface to dry completely and after that we clean it with emery paper as described above. We achieve a perfectly perfectly flat surface.

Now we have to make the coating of linseed oil. Some can make the color darker and then you can apply the stain. This will be a reliable basis for subsequent finishing. Let the surface dry completely.

Restoration options

Now let's look at the question of how to make new doors from old ones. This seemingly simple question has several answers.

Since there are several materials with which you can make the restoration. So let's consider how to upgrade old doors and what materials can be used.

Ordinary painting

This finishing option is used quite often. Here, paint is simply applied to the surface (see Painting an old door: how it is done).

Just do not use for this brush, it is used only in hard to reach places. To finish the plane used roller or spray. Just do not use a roller of foam, the best fit with a nap.

The use of vinyl and wallpaper

This design is also used infrequently.

It is performed as follows:

• Surface preparation is done as spelled above;

Attention: if your door was made with parts of glass, now you can make it not transparent. To do this, instead of fixing glazing put plywood.

• PVA glue is used to attach the trim elements. It should be prepared in advance. If the decoration will be used wallpaper, then you should apply washable. They will not be so quickly polluted and more simply to be cleaned. This will extend the life of the entire plane;
• Apply glue to the surface and press the element. Only for the beginning it is necessary to try it on a dry one and only after that do the fastening;
• When attaching the wallpaper, it is necessary to press them tightly over the entire surface; completely remove the air. Otherwise they will be bubbling.

Veneer finish

Such door trim is more laborious and time consuming.

It is executed in the following order:

• Prepare the surface, you already know how to do it;
• Now we need to send parts from veneer. To do this, first we make them from tracing paper or from old newspapers;

• Try on. This must be done necessarily;
• We transfer the size to the veneer and cut it now from the veneer;
• Try on. Apply a layer of glue on the plane and veneer;
• We attach and press. Smooth the plane from the middle of the part and to the edges. For this it is best to use an iron, just before it is heated;
• Wax coatinge. It extend the life of the surface.

Now you know how to make new doors from old ones. Video and photo will help to make everything right. The instruction is more detailed for finishing with almost all materials on the pages of our site. The most important thing in this matter is not to hurry.