Repairing them without compromising their integrity required patience and an understanding of their mortise and tenon joinery.
Repairing a split door panel.
Once the broken panels slide use a hot glue gun to attach wooden blocks to both side edges of each of the panels.
After some 200 years of hard knocks and spotty maintenance in the harsh climate of coastal maine our federal period home s frame and panel doors exhibited a range of problems from gaps and loose joints to outright rot.
To do this you need to glue wooden blocks on both sides of the panel along the split.
Be sure to place the block on areas that will be covered by the pieces of moulding once they are replaced.
How to fix cracks in door panels without taking the door apart wooden doors will develop cracks over time especially if the panels aren t free to expand and contract.
One difficulty in gluing up a door panel is clamping it.
In this video i will show you how to prevent and diy fix a buckling garage door panel.
Natural or varnished doors.
Most of the time years of paint or caulking the seams around the panels will cause the wood to stick and not allow the panel to expand and contract with the weather.