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Live in your home long enough and one of your interior doors is bound to get damaged. This usually happens when you are moving large furniture or when something falls on it but the end result is a hole that needs to be repaired.

Interior doors are relatively cheap and to keep the cost down manufacturers use a variety of different products. The edges of the door will be a pine or spruce frame to allow mounting of hardware like your door lock and hinges.

The main area of your door may be a luan plywood material which is often found in flat doors. This material is often stained to look like mahogany or cherry wood.  Unfortunately repairing a hollow veneer stained door is rather difficult. It can be done but it will most likely take you longer then it is worth and you should probably just replace the door.

If the door is an older solid wood door and it has a scar or dent in it you can use a variety of fillers to repair it if you plan to paint it. Again stained doors can be repaired but you will need to match the wood and possibly use a router to install a large slug that can be glued and stained. Don’t expect perfection.

Finally you have a hollow core door that is made out of a pressed wood / heavy cardboard type material. This is very common in todays homes and this type of door is always painted. This is the easiest type of door to repair if you take your time. Most of your work can be hidden by the final coat of paint.

Hollow core painted doors can be flat or they can be raised panel like the one we will be repairing.

The material is a wood product so you will need to use brown carpenters glue for the best results. Don’t try to make the repair with superglue or epoxy the glue will not hold over time and it will be a mess dealing with epoxy as it takes an extended period of time to cure.

The important thing about fixing a hollow core pressed wood door is to make the door structurally sound so that continued use of the door over the next few years wont result in cracking where the repair was made.

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First you will need to inspect the damage and decide if the door is repairable. If the damage is limited to the center of a single panel and you are able to push the cracks back into place then you will probably be in luck.

If the damage to the door extends to the frame of the door or if the door is not operating correctly you should purchase a new door. Don’t waste your time on a door that costs $60 to replace especially when you may be able to pick one up second hand for $10 at a local used building materials store.

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