How to Restore an Antique Door | This Old House
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- The Arlington homeowners decided to save the original front door but wanted a specialty shop to correct the mistakes it sustained over the years. Kevin O’Connor visits a restoration shop in Needham, MA where they will make this original Arts and Crafts door whole again. Refinished and rehung, Tom Silva shows a special machine iused to route a slot for the new lock mechanism.
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The front door to the Arlington house looked substantial from the outside but suffered a funky repair job in its past. Kevin O’Connor visits Wayne Towle’s restoration shop in Needham, MA where he’s in the middle of the process. Wayne notes that the type of door, with the old glass windows, is prevalent in historic neighborhoods and worth saving. An odd plywood panel was covering the original door on the inside, and when it’s removed the original quartered oak floating panel is revealed. New moldings will be applied where they’re missing. All the old lockset holes get patched. Kevin watches the final piece of damaged veneer being routed off. A new piece of white oak veneer will be glued and applied. A few steps more in the shop to finish it and then it will be sent to the house. The original front door is back in place after getting patched and refinished. Now it’s time to install the lock mortising hardware which connects to both the knob and the lock. Tom Silva shows the piece of hardware and explains that in order for the box to fit, a hole needs to be made inside the door. Finish carpenter Mattie Forde uses a lock mortising machine to cut the exact height, depth, and thickness all at once. The router gradually works its way into the door and stops at the right place. It’s a perfect fit.
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How to Restore an Antique Door | This Old House
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THANK YOU for showing the final product!!
It s always nice to have the right tools for the job.
Scott only speaks with his hands.
Much thanks to Wayne Towle for letting you film in his shop.
"This Old House" written on the plug before it's sawn flush :)
Wow that was awesome being able to see the finished product "Bravo" this old house you guys are awesome
Wow, this was awesome!
Beautiful Door👍
This is awesome! I love u guys!
This video showed nothing more but a nice antique door, this definitely did not hit the “How To” portion but 👍🏼
That tool to cut that hole for the mortise lock was cool as heck. Humans can/will make a tool to do anything!
I thought the same thing! It is truly amazing the tools we invent to replace work that used to be done by hand.
Craftsmanship of the highest grade. Beautiful restoration of a "period" door.
I would suggest that you add a little tint to the varnish. It would look much more rich. It’s just too raw looking without a little color added. I am a This Old House contributor from the 1980’s.
Just an FYI. There is a new door hardware I invented, ReSecure Latch. It is the perfect answer for Antique Door repair. This solves the problem of loose door latches or deadbolts. No more glue, sticks, putty, or ugly metal sleeves that ruin the doors beauty. I hope many who watch your channel will know that this hardware is out there in the world. Maybe one day available at Home Depot.
When plugging the lock body, why orient the plug grain across the lock stile grain?
Doesn't really matter that much when you're glueing a veneer over the top. The piece isn't structural and is unlikely to fail with movement. In my opinion at least.
Show us more steps in the fix
So about how much does it cost to have an old door restored like this? I've got 3 exterior doors and at least 8 interior doors that could use this kind of treatment.
Poor Kevin
Yes, terrible what happened
Oh thanks God! 3rd one for me.
My greeting from iraq
Anyone besides me that would like to see a boopers video?
Nope. The bloopers reel IS my life (joking!).
@@kenc2257 foul language and all? Lol
What color stain would that had been?
LOL
I have a door in my basement just like yours. I live in MI. How would I go about finding someone that can do this for my door?
😂 they did say they were at a finishing restoration shop, I would google one in your area, hope that helps!
I live in Detroit. I'm a door and window contractor that covers Michigan Ohio Indiana and parts of Canada. This is a highly specialized repair that even I don't do. If you can find somebody to do this for your door, be prepared to pay a lot of money. Solid wood doors can cost thousands and thousands of dollars, but I imagine it could also cost a couple thousand to restore your old wood veneer door so make sure it is a door worth restoring.
Kyle Richard I live in Detroit as well. I got the door from a 100+ year old house that was about to be torn down. I found a place in Farmington that does refinishing of furniture. But could your company do the outer part ? Like the lock mortising hardware?
Correct outer=other @ Kyle Richard
@@traceysewell7336 possibly, yes. I would have to look at the door slab as well as the door jamb that it's going into, and take a few measurements to see what we are looking at. If you are interested, I would be willing to do that part of it for free and give you my best advice on the project at no charge. After I look at the project, if there's anything I can do with it I could write you up an estimate or a quote and then leave and if you decide to call me back for the work then great and if not then I'm happy just to give you my advice on a cool project. My schedule is fully loaded, I have more work than I can handle, so you wouldn't have to feel bad at all if I don't actually do any work for you, I do really well for myself lol
Didn't show the before well enough.
How do I fix big poopie balls clogged in the bowl dude?????
good fix, but grain directon of the plug is wrong...
Last one here!
This time I will use woodglut plans for this.
That guy is going to cut his finger doing it like that
Showed us her front door
What about her back door lol
$1200+ jig for mortising out that hole on the edge of the door.
@@Kevin-mp5of I guess Crazy Glue is worthless on that.
I am restoring 4 old wooden doors and this video did not help me at all. These videos are not DIY at all. Really a "Lock Mortiser". jeeze thats like 2k, only way you would own that is if you do this for a living. plus in a door restore the hole is already cut.
I am in a similar position. This video doesn't really help the average home owner. I am trying to remodel the interior doors in my home. I don't access to the tools or fancy hardware they have. All I learned is that i am going to hire a professional carpenter someday to make my doors look decent.
@@marti6641 Yea man, I am still working on mine. I mostly have them done. The actual door locks/ knobs didn’t even turn in mine. I ended up getting the mortise locks out of all of my doors putting them in labeled zip locked bags with bubble wrap and sending them to a place in Road Island called “Paul’s Lock & Safe”. They got them working with new springs with skeleton keys they got from overseas (only $132.70) So, I don’t have to widen the cut for the new mortise locks they make now. I can now just put the original locks back in the doors and they will work as they were intended! The hardest part was getting all the paint off the doors. I am now just polyurethaneing/sanding them. I have tips if you want to message me. It’s a lot of work, but worth it! Good luck!!
First one here.
Who Cares
@@snowman8235 You're the one who replied. 😋😋