How to patch a hole in a door handle. How to repair interior doors yourself

A hole in the door can be formed as a result of many reasons: accidental impacts, mechanical impact, or just time. However, this slight misunderstanding does not mean that it will be urgent. The hole can be masked or repaired.

Disguise methods

Masking the hole is an easier and cheaper way to deal with this nuisance. Depending on the style of the interior of your home, your personal preferences and imagination. Possible options:

Hang a poster/placard. This option is suitable for a nursery or a room designed in a non-strict style. Today you can find many funny posters and signs that will mask the hole and at the same time will cheer you up every day.
Stick on a mirror. Self-adhesive mirrors are a great and practical option to get rid of the hole. They have a small weight that will withstand the door of any type, various sizes and shapes.
Seal with self-adhesive film. In special stores you can find a huge variety of colors and textures of such a film. You can stick it only on one or both sides of the door.
Hang the door leaf. To do this, you can use various drawings, photographs, pieces of fabric, etc. You can use any option that your imagination will give out and allow the interior.

If the design of the door and your budget allow this option, you can order a stained glass window for the part of the door with a hole. Such glass can be made to order and contact the master for high-quality installation.

door repair

If you do not want to change the original appearance of the door, then you can repair it. Moreover, you can close the hole yourself with the help of small expansion foam.

Trim the uneven edges of the hole.
Lay the interior space with any material at hand (for example, wrapping paper).
Fill with mounting foam. After it hardens, cut off the pieces protruding outward.
Cover the surface with mastic.
Putty (you can use ordinary putty / wood putty).
After the putty has dried (at least 12 hours), go over the surface with a zero sandpaper.
Paint the area with suitable paint. You can also create a unique pattern at this place.

If there is a hole in the door, do not worry. You can deal with it with the help of conventional tools and / or imagination.

Repair of interior doors can be done by everyone. To do this, you just need to arm yourself with the tool and knowledge. You can repair any doors made of MDF, fiberboard and chipboard (veneered and laminated), natural wood. You can carry out a lot of manipulations with them: seal with putty, put a patch, cut, regrind and tint.

Causes of problems

Mechanical damage occurs due to careless operation or installation:

scratches and dents are a common occurrence in families with small children;
moving or falling objects sometimes results in holes in fiberboard doors.

Due to improper installation, they face such difficulties:

skew;
bad connection;
friction.

The tree is hygroscopic - it easily absorbs moisture and releases it. In this regard, the violation of production technology and operating conditions leads to the following unpleasant consequences:

Correction of mechanical damage

To repair minor damage to an interior door with our own hands, we need:

putty or wax pencil;
a piece of felt

Minor scratches and dents almost always occur after a short period of use. They are covered with a special wax pencil, which can be easily purchased on the building materials market. The color of the pencil should match the shade of the doors. The place of termination is rubbed with a piece of felt.

How to repair dents and chips on wooden interior doors

To seal dents on wooden products, we suggest the following: with a chisel, a piece of wood is hollowed out exactly corresponding to the size of the dent and, smeared with glue, applied to the recess. The junction is pressed with a clamp if the damage is on the edge. If the patch is in the middle of the door leaf, it must be placed on a flat surface, covered with a board of a suitable size and pressed with a heavy object. The protruding sections of the patch are cleaned with a chisel and polished with coarse and then fine sandpaper. Paint over with suitable paint, open with varnish.

Do-it-yourself interior chipboard door repair

To repair damage to the surface of veneered chipboard, use veneer, matched by color and texture. It is necessary to remove the damaged piece with a chisel and glue a new one. It is easier to fix the defect if the veneer is tangentially cut (wavy, twisted structure), then the repair is not very noticeable. With a radial cut (straight, parallel lines), it is more difficult to correct, as it is difficult to match the pattern. Clamp the place of gluing in the same way as in the example above.

Restoration of holes in fiberboard doors

Broken fiberboard doors can be repaired with your own hands by inserting a ventilation grill from the bottom of the product. If a hole has formed from above, then an inlay is made of a similar material, glass, etc. A symmetrical hole is cut out, the ends of which are upholstered with wooden bars to close the void. They insert a pre-prepared wooden or MDF panel (available on sale), lay the insert and fix it with another panel on the reverse side, hammering it with pins.

We fix the shortcomings made during improper installation

If the door does not open well or friction occurs, the excess is removed from the edge with a planer, sanded, painted and varnished. The gap between the frame and the doors should be no more than 1.5 - 2 mm.
If the door bounces when closed, the cause may be that it rests against a quarter of the frame. In this case, the door leaf or frame is cut. Also, the problem may lie in the installation of hinges on the door.
Door settling can be repaired by placing washers on the top and bottom door hinge pins.

We eliminate manufacturing defects with our own hands

A sticky door is mainly the result of unfair manufacturing and to resolve the situation, contact the manufacturer. But, if he turned out to be not decent, he will have to repair it himself. In this case, it is necessary to disassemble the product into parts, sand the entire coating to bare wood, and clean off the remaining glue at the joints. Having smeared the joints with glue, alternately connect the parts, clamping them with clamps. The doors are then repainted and varnished.
If the doors are made of damp material, they subsequently dry out in a dry room and gaps form, the door does not fit snugly against the frame or does not close at all. In this case, a bar of the required size is glued to the edge, then aligned to the size of the door leaf, sanded and coated with the necessary paint and varnish products.

Hollow interior doors require more careful handling, due to their lightweight design, compared to solid ones. Well, if you didn’t protect such a door from impact, say, when you transferred it, then a good dent or even a hole will certainly appear in it. Of course, you can buy a new one, they are not so expensive, but in any case it is much cheaper to fix it yourself.

Hollow door repair with pattern restoration

So, the entire repair and restoration of a hollow door can be divided into five main stages:

Filling with mounting foam voids under the dent to give strength to the place for further processing.
Surface putty.
Making a stencil with the original wood pattern.
Restoration of the pattern on the surface of the door.
Painting.

So, we remove the door from the hinges. We put it on stools or other even elevation, with the damaged place up.

We fill the voids with mounting foam

To fix the dent and fill the holes, we will use a universal mounting foam, which is used in construction and repair.

If the hole does not have open slots or holes, then they must be made by yourself, using a drill and a screwdriver.

The diameter of the drill, take a little more than the tube of the foam bottle.

We fill the space under the crack.

Let the foam harden. Usually this takes a day.

After hardening, we cut off the foam protruding from the holes and cracks flush.

We grind, removing paint from the restored area, making it smooth and even.

We putty the surface

When the surface is prepared, we proceed to putty, having previously primed the place of application.
There are special requirements for putty, it must be epoxy-based in order for the surface to be restored to be durable. It is not difficult to buy or cook it yourself.
We use a rubber spatula.

We putty, filling in all the bumps and potholes.

It may be necessary to apply several layers to obtain the desired result.

Let it dry and then move on to the next step.

We make a form with a pattern

We find on the same door a plot of a similar size with a good texture of the pattern.

We gnaw it with rails.

And in order to fix everything and seal a kind of bath, we coat it with plasticine, clay or other plastic material.

Pour liquid rubber (or silicone rubber) into the resulting bath. Please note that the door should lie very evenly.

Distribute evenly over all surfaces. It is not necessary to make a very thick layer, somewhere around 5-7 mm.

We leave and wait for hardening. The time can be found in the instructions for use.

When the time has come, remove the sides, peel off the layer from the door.

The result should be a clear shape on a piece with rubber.

Restoring the wood pattern on the door

We make a side, about a millimeter thick, around the damaged area.

We take epoxy-based glue, mix the components. Apply the required amount to the area inside the frame.

The interior door is not the last element of the interior. Not only color, design, door material are important, but also the quality of installation. Competent installation and installation is half the success.

When installing a door, various situations arise: incorrect calculation of parameters, difficulties with installation, force majeure situations. As a result, the outcome may not be as rosy as it seemed at first. The resulting gaps spoil the view of the room, and not everyone knows what to do with them. The article discusses the most common causes of cracks and ways to eliminate them.

It is important to consider the material from which the door and frame are made. If they are made of natural wood, then this material can shrink or swell under certain conditions.

No matter how carefully you install the interior door in the opening, you could punch a hole or there were gaps between the box and the wall in some places. They spoil the appearance, but it is not difficult to repair them. Slots and holes can be small or large, around the perimeter or in some places. All these parameters will determine how to solve the problem.

The smoother the walls are, the better the door will look after installation.

Slits spoil not only the view of the room, they cease to close tightly, increase the transmission of extraneous sounds, and can play and clap in drafts. Special thermal insulation for interior doors is not required so this issue is not considered.

Sometimes gaps appear during operation: the previous plaster falls off, which hid flaws in the installation.

How to close the cracks and holes after installing the structure?

To eliminate defects after installing an interior door, various methods are used, among them you can even find such rare ones as finishing with decorative stone or tile. Here, more often, the owners are guided by the general characteristics of the design, interior features.

If several methods are applicable for design, then the choice is made based on financial capabilities or relying on the taste of the owner. The choice depends entirely on preferences, and the result depends on the quality of the sealing of the cracks.

Mounting foam

Between the wall and the box, it is necessary to foam the space. You can not install an interior door close to the wall, this will reduce the reliability of the structure. This gap should not exceed 2 cm.
When working with foam, it is necessary to protect the coating of the door and frame from its ingress., then it will be difficult to clean this material.

If the installation of the door is performed by specialists, then they themselves will fill the space with foam.

If the installation is done by yourself:

the temperature in the room should be +5 - +30 degrees;
moisten the opening to be filled with water;
the balloon is kept upside down;
fill no more than 1/3 of the total space;
you have to start from the bottom.

For use in the installation of interior doors, one-component semi-professional foam is sufficient. It will dry in a day, then the excess must be cut off with a knife, sealed with putty.

putty

After foaming the gap, the appearance of the door does not always get better. If the gaps were very small, then nothing else would have to be done, and if a little more, then the foam would spoil the whole aesthetics. You can then choose another option depending on the interior.

Despite the ease of use, putty can aggressively affect the material of the door, and therefore you need to be more careful in choosing the material, take care of protecting the door leaf and platbands. In a simpler version, after drying, the putty can be covered with wallpaper or painted.

Fabric or curtains

One of the ideas that are gaining popularity is fabric trim. If the gaps are small enough, you can not use putty or mounting foam: curtains or decoration with material will come to the rescue.

The original look of the door leaf is guaranteed, the main thing is that there are no traces of glue left on the fabric, otherwise the whole look will deteriorate. It is better to overcast the edges, remove all threads that can hang out. This decoration is especially easy for patchwork lovers. The fabric looks beautiful in the interior instead of a glass door insert or as a curtain, fixed with beautiful carnations or an unusual pendant.

Plastic

Plastic self-adhesive tapes will look beautiful. You can also use simple plastic to close the zone, but you need to attach it with something else, and the tapes make it easier to lay the material.

Attention! Plastic self-adhesive tapes wear out quickly require periodic replacement.

Before gluing the tape, you need to clean the place of dust and litter, degrease it, and it is better to stick it from top to bottom - it's more convenient. The protective paper is removed as the tape is applied. It is necessary to gently press the material to the surface for good adhesion.

You can take cheaper tapes: they do not have an adhesive base, then you will have to apply glue yourself or fix it with nails.

Cracked plastic strips hide flaws well, but they also require additional fastening, which will be provided by nails or screws.

How to do the job yourself: termination instructions

In addition to these methods, you can use silicone paste to seal gaps in interior doors. It is sold in tubes, and for work you will need a special gun.

In order not to stain the canvas and platbands, it is necessary to treat them with petroleum jelly or stick masking tape.
Load the gun, adjust the amount of incoming material.
Apply the paste at an angle of 45 0, moving slowly over the surface, without undue haste.
The door is kept closed until the material dries, the period is indicated on the packaging or in the instructions.
After this time, you can open it, then remove the excess paste.

This method is simple, but gives high-quality sealing. Good for rooms with high humidity, such as bathrooms or kitchens.

Still, plastic is a cheap and simple material that will suit most modern interiors. To close the cracks, a molding is applied. You need to determine its size, shape and color. You can fix it with nails or glue. You don't have to take any special steps. Sometimes you can make plastic slopes:

install guide profiles on the prepared surface;
cut parts from purchased plastic with a jigsaw;
work starts from the side walls from the entrance side and ends with the ceiling;
close the edges with special plugs in the form of corners;
sealant to go through all the seams and joints.

The wider the slope, the better the ribbed plastic looks. Laying it should be done horizontally.

Dobors have also become popular. You can attach them either to the box, or to the doorway itself. Mounting glue or self-tapping screws (at the discretion of the owner) can hold them, close the hats with plugs or putty.

The allowances are divided:

on ordinary ones - they resemble slats with veneer;
telescopic or type-setting - expand the opening, look like a lining;
combined - rather, they look like a decorative corner.

When attaching extensions, the vertical of the wall cannot have a deviation of more than 4 mm so accurate measurements are required.
After all the calculations of the work, it is necessary to carefully and consistently adhere to this algorithm of actions:

Cut the board into pieces of the desired size.
The box is mounted, extensions are attached to it.
The resulting structure is installed in the opening.
Wedges are placed in the interstitial space, which regulate the structure until the desired position is reached.
The entire space between the wall and the box is foamed in three stages. Each subsequent one is applied strictly on the completely dried previous one.
The surface is plastered.
Closed with platbands.

This method allows you to make all the doors in the same style. It is important to correctly measure and install. Plus - the color of the material and texture can be taken similar.

If you plan to use an extension, then it is better to buy a door frame with a groove, which will facilitate the installation of additional parts.

Attention

For the installation of extensions in the interior space, it is good to use liquid nails as fasteners.

To beautifully and neatly close the gaps in the interior door, there are many ways. Of these, you can choose one that will be closer to the interior design, will be affordable, decorate the room. Any of the described options is widely used in the repair and installation of doors.