Repairing A Broken Door Panel

Even if your door has been binding for years we ll show you how to identify the problem and repair it quickly and inexpensively.
Repairing a broken 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. If a crack has gunk in it clean out the space with a strip of sandpaper. 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. 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.
No car is more fraught with busted plastic than the 4 th generation gm f body which is the 1993 to 2002 chevrolet camaro and pontiac firebird. Doors that won t shut or latch properly are annoying but once you diagnose the problem the fix is usually easy. 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.