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The most popular type of internal door in modern homes today is the hollow core door. Slightly confusingly, these doors are not hollow!
Your internal doors are used on regularly on day-to-day basis in the main thoroughfares of your home and suffer the inevitable daily effects of wear and tear, especially if you have children and pets.
First off though, just in case you are uncertain about what a hollow door is, we’ll explain.
A hollow core door is a timber framed door filled with a cardboard honeycomb and finished with a layer of hardboard or plywood and a veneer on top. Door accessories such as handles need to be attached to the food frame. Hollow doors are inexpensive and a popular choice as an internal door. Hollow doors don’t offer the soundproofing, security or thermal insulation of solid doors as their construction is comparatively weak.
As much as we love hollow interior doors for the variety of styles they are available in and their value for money, these doors are not known for their strength and durability.
Something as unthreatening as a doorstop can punch a hole in a hollow core door, or if you are moving furniture, an internal door will probably come off second best if there is an accident. Anxious pets may scratch at closed doors, leaving you with a headache in how to get your door looking back to its best.
So what should you do if you do get damage to your door? One option would be to replace the door as hollow doors are relatively inexpensive. The good news is that with a bit of imagination and some cheap materials, you can repair a hollow core door.
We’re going to show you how to repair the most common forms of damage to an internal door.
Repair the hole in your door with these six easy steps:
That will fill the hole in the internal door but you may want to apply a finish that matches the colour of original.
If your dog or cat has been clawing at the surface of your door and left their mark you’ll want to get it back to looking back to its best.
A scratched internal fixed door can be repaired with sandpaper and wood filler. Here’s how!
You will need:
Four steps to repair a scratched door:
Once again, you may want to paint or stain the affected area following the repair.
If your internal doors are looking tired, or you are thinking of replacing them to fit in with a new design scheme or simply some home improvement, there is another option.
Hollow doors can be painted if carefully sanded down. As the doors have a thin top layer, this isn’t a process you can do more than once, unless you paint on top of paint.
Things You’ll Need: