Wood renovation

Renovating and repairing wood requires specific skills and knowledge. If you need help with your wood project, the advice articles below on how to treatment and fill carpentry surfaces will help…

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Renovating building woodwork

Reinforcing, joining, reconstructing and repairing missing parts or masking small defects on building joinery requires careful attention and the ri...

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How to Repair Large Holes in Woodwork

Large holes in exterior woodwork are common on older features - rotted sections of window sills, decayed areas around door frames, holes left by re...

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Identify and Treat Rot in Interior Woodwork

How to Repair Rotten Wood

Rot in interior woodwork is easy to miss until it has already done serious damage. It often starts behind paint, under sills, or in areas where moi...

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How to Fill Shallow Damage in Wood

Shallow surface damage on interior woodwork is one of the most common making-good jobs before decoration.

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How to Smooth Over Wood Grain Before Painting

Most of the wood around your home, doors, skirting boards, staircases, furniture, has a visible grain running through it.

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How to Fill Movement Cracks in Wood

Timber expands and contracts with changes in temperature and humidity, and where two pieces of wood meet, or where wood meets a wall, that movement...

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How to Glaze Wooden Windows with Putty

Glazing putty is what keeps glass in place and water out of a timber window frame. It does a lot of work for something most people never think abou...

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How to Prep Woodwork for High Gloss Paint

If the woodwork is not perfectly smooth before the first coat of paint goes on, the end result will show it. Here's how to prepare woodwork to a fl...

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How to Restore Damaged Woodwork

Chipped skirting boards, dented architraves, broken moulding profiles, worn door frame edges, and damaged banister rails can all be rebuilt in plac...

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Toupret has developed a specific range of fillers and solutions for renovating wooden surfaces. As experts in filler products for woodwork, we support professionals and help them improve their knowledge with several articles devoted to renovating wood. These advice sheets will help you to choose the most suitable filler for your job, to succeed in renovating damaged wood, to fill all types of wood easily or even to repair and renovate the joinery of a building. Discover all our expert articles by clicking on the topic of your choice. Toupret teams are also on hand to advise and help you choose your fillers.