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I dropped a cabinet door on a concrete floor and learned a trick with wax paper
I was installing a set of maple upper cabinets in a customer's kitchen over in Rochester last Thursday when I fumbled a door while dry fitting it. It landed face down on the concrete and the corner chipped out about the size of a dime. I was ready to reorder the door at $85 plus a two week wait, but my lead guy said to try mixing fine sawdust from the same board with wood glue, pressing it in, then laying wax paper over it and clamping a flat block down for 24 hours. The wax paper kept the block from sticking and the patch is almost invisible unless you get right up on it. Has anyone else used sawdust and glue for corner chips like this, or do you just eat the cost and reorder?
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riverb5213d ago
Wait, you fumbled a maple door and your lead guy just happened to have fine sawdust from the SAME board sitting around? That seems way too lucky for a random Thursday install. I get that color matching matters on stained maple, but keeping dust from every board you cut sounds like a whole system, not a quick tip.
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