How To Disassemble A Panel Door

This comes from wood central.

How to disassemble a panel door.

Place the door on a flat surface to begin working on the panel. Dip the cotton swab into the adhesive and slide it into the seam. Use a scrap 2 by 4. Unscrew the top hinge first and remove the lower hinge with an assistant holding the door in place.

Take one end of the cotton swab and dip it under the surface of the adhesive in your cup. Step 2 remove any fasteners in the corner of the panel with a small pry par. For doors that are still reasonably tight or just beginning to loosen try the following. How to dissassemble a frame and panel cabinet door.

Hide glue can be de activated on joints that are still stuck by saturating the joint with alcohol. After several minutes the joint will be loose enough to pull apart. Raise the garage door and disconnect the power to the automatic garage door opener if applicable. Square up the door if necessary and clamp the stiles against the rails with bar clamps under light pressure then gently tap in the tenon wedges to tighten the tenons in their mortises being careful not to crush the fibers in the tenons.

Use a rubber mallet to carefully bang out the corner. Undo the tension springs from the turnbuckles holding them in place. Pull the swab out and slide the swab in between the masking tape and the exposed door panel. I have two kitchen cabinet doors that need to be cut shorter by several inches to accommodate the new microwave.

The doors appear to be typical mass production with a router frame joint i don t know what this kind of joint is called see attached pictures. Carefully lower the door.