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I’m a retired guy, just doing odd jobs to help family and friends. Twice in recent weeks I’ve been asked to repair broken door frames, where the force of a storm door caught in a wind has pulled the door closer out of the frame and badly cracked it.
My question is this: can you purchase a section of door frame, i.e., one with the proper sections cut out for both the interior door and storm door, and then insert it by removing the broken section with a Sawzall and replacing it with new, or, do you have to remove the old section and build up a new one with different thicknesses of wood? Any tips from the pro’s would be appreciated.
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Joe we see a lot of that with doing work for the realty firms here. You have two ways of doing this mostly they depend on the amount of damage done.
1. If short screws were used and the damage is small use one of the two part fillers that are out and replace short screws with ones that will reach the framing
2. If major damage is done then you have cut out and replace the damaged jam piece. Along with this a lot of times you have to replace the weather strip on the jam. We use 5/4" with dowels and springs to replace the damaged jam. To speed things up add epoxy instead of glue and you can do this in about a hour.
Good luck
*Bill, mind elucidating the dowel and spring thing?
*Ok Buck here it goes: 1. Drill hole in patch plug 2 1/2 times the lenght of dowel 2. Drill hole in jam half the depth as dowel is long 3. Insert spring into patch plug 4. Coat dowel with glue 5. Insert dowel into patch plug depressing spring 6. Insert patch plug into jam with repair dowel fully depressed 7. As patch enters jam, spring will push dowell into hole b If all else fails take slot A and bend into slot B
*Ok Buck quit shaking your head It's not as bad as it sounds. We use the above because it the best way we have follow to fix jambs. Some other tricks are to make the patch a little proud(higher) then the jam. This allows you to belt sand down. Also we coat the edges of the patch with glue. The only other way is to install patch and try to drill for a dowel at a angle to hold the patch. Kind of like edge glueing with a dowel only the boards have already been jointed. This would be easier if I could show you some pictures. Well.......slowly I'm getting there.b Someday hoping to be as good at Joe at posting
*OK, I am assuming the storm door closer has split the formed stop of the jamb. I've had to fix these in apartments that idiot boyfriends (not my boyfriends, I just fix doors) couldn't get out of fast enough. Usually I can cut the offended piece out with a Japanese saw and some chisles. Put some shims and construction adhesive on the rough frame, and put in a jamb patch with marine epoxy and counter sunk screws into the edge of the jamb. Big screws, like the ones trimmers throw away with the deadbolt security understrikes. Sand the jamb, and add a piece for the stop with epoxy and countersink screws through the jamb and into the framing. Glue a dowel into the jamb countersink and bondo the screw holes in the stop, and sand everything smooth. Then, take a dovetail saw and cut a slot for the weather stripping. Replace the brick mould and paint it up. This probably sounds like a big pain in the butt. It is, but it's a solid fix.Bill, these dowels go into the edge of jamb, si?I'm not getting the reason for the springs. Wouldn't they make a weak void? Just wondering. BBGood thing there's an edit button, I just got it!!!!!!! I am pretty slow. You cut out a whole section, all the way across the jamb!!!!!. I had almost broken my neck from shaking my head. Who needs Joe's pictures, I can't see his details anyhow.Vely crever, Billy.
*b Send all royalities to Curry Construction's off shore Account.................. LOL
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Many thanks to you guys who took the time to reply and offer suggestions. Repair sounds do-able, and that's what I needed to know.
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I'm a retired guy, just doing odd jobs to help family and friends. Twice in recent weeks I've been asked to repair broken door frames, where the force of a storm door caught in a wind has pulled the door closer out of the frame and badly cracked it.
My question is this: can you purchase a section of door frame, i.e., one with the proper sections cut out for both the interior door and storm door, and then insert it by removing the broken section with a Sawzall and replacing it with new, or, do you have to remove the old section and build up a new one with different thicknesses of wood? Any tips from the pro's would be appreciated.