Making good after new door

Hey

Had a new front door fitted recently and finally getting round to making good around it - they did offer to fit plastic trim but I wanted to avoid this as it was replacing a old night latch door the width of the trim was pretty large.

The door fitting wasn’t fully square so some wood was used to fill the gap.

I guess I have 2 questions

1. ⁠What’s the best way to make this look like “one” bit of wood and all part of the frame? Some filler in the gap / sanding down and painting it all as one or is there a better way to do this?

2. ⁠The gap which is mostly at the top - it was filled with silicone but this stated to come away when I was trying to sand down the wall and removing the lose parts of paint on the edge - what’s the best way to fill this and make it look proper?

Thank you!

You need something to cover the entire top of that dark wood top to bottom cut tight to wall.

Filling will just crack

As a decorator, I get frustrated when presented with a door which has been siliconed in. The fitters are either unaware that silicone repels paint... or they don't care. I end up having to remove the silicone (a very, very slow process) and then apply appropriate fillers and, after initial painting, I apply a modified silicone such as CT1. They accept waterbased paints.

Personally, I would use a expanding foam gun to fill the bulk of the gap in your image. Then scrape the foam back and apply filler, then, as I said, paint and CT1

opps said:

As a decorator, I get frustrated when presented with a door which has been siliconed in. The fitters are either unaware that silicone repels paint... or they don't care. I end up having to remove the silicone (a very, very slow process) and then apply appropriate fillers and, after initial painting, I apply a modified silicone such as CT1. They accept waterbased paints.

Personally, I would use an expanding foam gun to fill the bulk of the gap in your image. Then scrape the foam back and apply filler, then, as I said, paint and CT1

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Thank you! Yeah as you say it was siliconed in with a horrible thick bead… looked ok from a distance but would never have looked perfect, it’s the council replacing all our doors for fire reasons so whilst as a leaseholder had some say - ultimately wasn’t much, they did plan to whack a massive plastic trim over it so avoided that!

As you say spent some time getting the silicone off foam filled it and onto the filling now and then will give a go at doing a neat bead of CT1 around it.

Thank you!