Hi all
Posted here a little while back about refurbing my gate. Finally found time to do it!
Had a panel of plywood cut to size at the local builders merchants, then cut out the hole for the handle. However - and I'm embarassed as hell about this - I messed up the measuring somehow. By a lot. See the top of the attached pic. I still have no idea what I was thinking that day...!
Anyway, rather than scrap the whole panel and start again, I fitted it just to see how bad it looks. I'm now torn between ripping it down and doing it properly, or making a fix, if there's anything passable.
I thought about some sort of beading/edging to go around the inside of the handle to cover the gap, but this would probably be fiddly and perhaps look odd (suggestions welcomed). My other thought is to cut another small strip of ply to fill that gap, and glue it on as neatly as possible, then paint over it with the wood treatment stuff and hopefully hide the join.
Is this idea cowboy-worthy or just sensible? I'm not a bodge-merchant but would rather avoid redoing the whole thing if possible - never any free time. But if I need to then I need to. Next time I'll measure 3 times...!
cheers
Matt
Posted here a little while back about refurbing my gate. Finally found time to do it!
Had a panel of plywood cut to size at the local builders merchants, then cut out the hole for the handle. However - and I'm embarassed as hell about this - I messed up the measuring somehow. By a lot. See the top of the attached pic. I still have no idea what I was thinking that day...!
Anyway, rather than scrap the whole panel and start again, I fitted it just to see how bad it looks. I'm now torn between ripping it down and doing it properly, or making a fix, if there's anything passable.
I thought about some sort of beading/edging to go around the inside of the handle to cover the gap, but this would probably be fiddly and perhaps look odd (suggestions welcomed). My other thought is to cut another small strip of ply to fill that gap, and glue it on as neatly as possible, then paint over it with the wood treatment stuff and hopefully hide the join.
Is this idea cowboy-worthy or just sensible? I'm not a bodge-merchant but would rather avoid redoing the whole thing if possible - never any free time. But if I need to then I need to. Next time I'll measure 3 times...!
cheers
Matt
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