Door Skins
I hate skinning doors. Mine were rotten, so I had little choice.
One door, completely stripped.
Find a Labradore, or even a grinder, and cut around the skin, then pull it off.
You can see the bottom lip has rotted away. I used to use mini step sills to repair these, but it's sunday, so I'm just going to make some repair plates out of some flat steel.
Cut out the rot, and weld in the repair.
make sure its nice and flat on the skin side or it will dint it.
Then I clamp the skin to the to either side of the window frame, then work my way around SLOWLY with a panel beating hammer on top of an old carpet. Once it's folded over I finish off with a dolly & hammer. If your going to get a blip or a dent, it's usually were the skin crurves around. This one needs a bit of filling, not much, but I can see it. Not bad for the first skin I've done in 15 years eh?
Put some sound deadening in the inside of the skin, it'll take the "tin" noise out of the door when you shut it.
Check here also, the hinge point often gets a stress crack so weld that up while your on.
I fitted new hinges, after I primed it.
Then hung it. It only needed one shim at the top and it looked pretty much spot on.
Done, just need to do the other side now. It took me about 3 hours with a few cups of tea. I used to do four in a morning!
Right, done the otherside now, only took an hour this time. The door wasn't as bad on the bottom edge, but the stress cracks in the hinge side of the frame were really bad.
