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My cousin asked If I could fix one of his out doors. He explained that a friend of his who is not a carpenter made him a traditional-looking door of a simple Wood door by making it thicker and he made it to look like an old door.
My cousin doesnt use it in the winter time so the snow rises 1/3 of the hight of the door an rests there until it melts and it might be +- 6months. The reasons to the rot is alkyd paint and the snow/wather.
Here some pics of the job. First day about 6h I removed the rotten wood and glued slovely grown Finnish pine instead with the heart outwards with PVAc D3. The first paint layer is Zink+linseedoil and the red is alkydoil paint
 

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Yep.
 
#11 ·
now add a storm door to protect all of that fine work...
 
#10 ·
Nice fix...well thought out, nice cuts... (oscillating tool..?)
 
#12 · (Edited)
Nice job. Those considering building their doors should be aware that when the door frame gets oversized the price of the lockset does the same. I have 2 "built" doors keyed alike and the locks failed due to having a "normal" width lockset that someone put in a double thickness frame. Rather than paying $200 + (each) I recessed the new locksets and put push plates over them. Just saying...............
 
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