Solid Wood Door Repair
"Is there even a way to fix it short of replacing the rail?" My answer, based on experience with this, (depending on your skills and tools) is YES. The first thing I note is that the door is painted. If you're wish is to continue to have the door be painted, then repairs are certainly easier, as the repair evidence can be painted over. IMO: The wall anchors certainly have to come out. I would remove as much paint as possible short of using a chemical stripper, which could be done later to restore the entire door. The holes for the wall anchors may have to be re-drilled for dowels, which should be glued in. I open the cracks as much as possible with wooden door shims, clean them out using compressed air to prepare for gluing. I cross-drill the door at the cracked areas for dowels also, but- I prepare my dowels by slitting them with a thin band-saw blade, a coping saw blade will work. This allows me to install home-made wedges into the dowels to spread them after installing. When everything, and double-check everything, is ready-add a good wood glue (Woodbond II ?) into the cracks, pull the cracks together with clamps (use weight if you don't have clamps), add the dowels (with glue), then tamp the home-made wedges (made from paint stir sticks) into the dowels to keep them in. After all is done and the glue has dried, hand sanding is my preference to prepare for painting. It is a little more complicated than as I write, but is a do-able project. I, personally, like older wooden doors and get calls in my area to repair such as pictured here, rather than replace the door with something with "no character or appeal". As we've all heard before: "They just don't make them like they used to" Good Luck, David
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