Miscellaneous Repairs & Modifications

One of the numerous stately homes in West Linn.

A stately home, with stately Oak Doors, the lower panels of which have cracked, which you might be able to see better if you enlarge the photo.

This is not unusual for door panels made of solid-wood, which is why most wood door panels are made with a type of plywood with layers of alternate wood-grains running horizontally & vertically. Note the door with the panel already removed.

Our technician Brandon Todd goes about carefully cutting the overlapping stop-material with a Fein-Tool.

Three splits, four pieces X 2-panels.

So back at our shop, Jared & Brandon go about the task employing a Biscuit Joiner to achieve a realignment of the panel pieces.

This will help hold the pieces in place relative to each other while the glue dries, but the “Biscuits” will also add to the strength of the panels overall.

To learn more about what a Biscuit joiner is, go to; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit joiner.

After the last piece is “joined” to the whole…the clamps are applied.

Shortly after this photo was taken, the excess glue is carefully wiped off, and the panels are now stronger than they would be if they had never cracked.