Wooden Front Door - Best filler, three areas

[ChilliBob]

Hey everyone,

A job I have been putting off for some time is painting our wooden front door. Before painting it there are three areas I need to address:

1. Slightly worn down threshold (it's gone back to bare wood, but only just.
Idea: Toupret wood filler
Concern: is it hard enough to cope with foot traffic?

2. Joins between door panels and door frame, these open more in heat and shrink back in winter. Inside I used Ct1, that seemed to work.
Idea: Ct1 or Toupret Fibacryl (never used the latter.
Concern: tooling into fine gaps is tricky!

3. Horizontal small cracks in the bottom. These done seem movement based.
Idea: Toupret wood filler
Concern: least, I reckon this would work fine

To be clear, none of the door is rotten or broken wood. This makes me think the likes of Oxera or similar (two part like repair care but cheaper) are probably overkill. (Which is good as I've not used it before.

I'm usually happy to crack on and see how it goes, but being the front door and all, I don't want to mess it up!

Pictures attached. It's the panel movement area that concerns me most. It feels unorthodox to use Ct1 to repair a wooden door, but it looks to have done the job inside!

I'm all set on paint choices, colour, the system recommended by the manufacturer etc.

Cheers!

 

[Wayners]

Repair care dry flex 4 is good but maybe your plan with toupret and CT1 will be good enough.
Depends how good you want to make it

 

[ChilliBob]

Cheers Wayners. I'm not sure how is get that into the panel areas, feels like I'd need something I can gun in out of a tube then tool.

You reckon Toupret is strong enough to walk on? As you can see, it's a thin layer id need. Seems these two part things are for more chunky repairs normally no?

 

[Wayners]

Cut out joints. Fill with dryfex resin.
It all becomes one and won't crack.
It's a bit more than most want to do.
Other just use 2 pack wood filler. Toupret powder wood filler and CT1.

 

[ChilliBob]

Cheers, seems my initial ideas weren't a million miles off the right solution, which is good.

Any experience with the Oxera 4 hour sfuff in tubs? - looks good, 25 Quid delivered and in tubs rather than tubes will last longer.

 

[Wayners]

Oxera have a good technical helpline.
I've used some of their products and chatted to reps at painting decorating show.
Id recommend chatting to them

 

[ChilliBob]

Nice. I did pop them an email earlier but not heard back yet, so might give them a call on a few days if not. Cheers