The Joinery Shop repairs French Door in Marlow where others have failed. This fixed end panel on a set of French doors had been suffering for a little while. The rotten wood had been filled very neatly and repainted by a decorator, but that hadn’t solved the problem as rain water was still making its way behind the bottom bead, through the paint and into the hardwood bottom rail of the panel. As the panel was fixed to the brickwork, we had to perform an in situ A, B, C repair on the bottom rail employing ply guides to ensure perfect margins as we machined the rotten timber away. In the second photo you can see an enormous amount of white filler with damp black timber around it and the white powdery mould that was thriving inside the wet frame. We’re just over 1” deep into the bottom rail at this stage so the rot had well and truly set in! These doors were seriously big and chunky, so we needed to make up planks in Accoya of the correct size before meticulously scribing them to fit. Judicious application of tea ensures the joiner is capable of the greatest accuracy. We made up an exact replacement of the existing beading using the remaining Accoya (we never waste any of this amazing material) and finished with 2 coats of micro porous long life primer before deploying our secret weapon in the fight against water ingress on timber window frames…no really, it’s a SECRET.
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