Joinery

Over the years we have striven to get the woodwork in the house – skirting boards, door frames and window sills - back to the natural wood, spending hours with sandpaper, scrapers, power sanders, Nitromors and even a blow torch to get the desired effect, but one door frame proved resistant to them all, retaining flecks of white and green in crevices impervious to all efforts and resulting in today’s final solution – to rip it out and replace with new wood; clearly a job for a professional and the lad who came made a decent fist of it despite the difficulties posed by the wonky old walls, but he did fill in even the smallest gaps, and the sunken nail heads, with white filler, fine if the frame is to be painted but unhelpful when aiming for a  natural wood effect and it meant I had to spend a couple of hours picking it all out so it can be replaced by a more sympathetic compound.