Garage Door - Replace Cladwood Panel?

Heineken77

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if anyone had any tips.

I quoted a job for a townhouse complex as requested by the property manager. She wants me to replace a slew of their garage door panels.

Now usually if there is a panel damaged in a cladwood section, I recommend replacing the entire section rather than just the square clad panel, as the labour involved is a lot less than having to do the tedious work of trying to replace 1 panel.

Here's my situation. I've never replaced a square clad panel up until a couple of months ago. Now for those of you not familiar with these particular doors, the clad panels are surrounded by the door section's wood frame, and on the inside of the door there are 4 pieces of quarter round that is stapled and glued to the frame of the section around the perimeter of the clad panels in order to hold them in place. Called up my supplier and asked if there was an easy way to get the quarter round off....and he said hammer and chisel was about my only option.

Went in and started chiseling the quarter round out to the best of my ability, but it seems as the quarter round has fused together with the wood frame of the door, and being that it's not fresh wood or glue, the actual wooden frame started to crack a bit as I chiseled and peeled the quarter round out. It was a nightmare. Thank god the guy had a table saw in his garage, or it would have been ridiculous to get the new panels to fit into the old slots.

Is there any special hand held electric saw of some sort that can make thin precision cuts in order to avoid having to chisel the out of these sections and potentially damaging these sections? Any types of solvent or tricks that you can offer that may help getting this quarter round off as clean and easy as possible?

Thanks!

JonM

Why not a router with a templet......then install new 1/4 round

Heineken77

to be completely honest, not sure what a templet is as I haven't used a router before What exactly is a templet and how would it work?

I just went to home depot and noticed a rotozip which came with a right angle attachment and a wood cut off blade. Variable speed, so it would do a better job than the full speed of my angle grinder...however if that would work too I could just give that a shot if there's a wood blade available for it.

If you think there is a better way, or that my angle grinder would do the trick would love to hear some opinions. Not sure how long those wood blades last for the rotozip would last, and don't want to waste money doing it one way when you guys may have a better way to do it

Thanks again

JonM

This is an aluminum template, but you can cut one out of plywood.

billy d

Try a fein multimaster

72chevy4x4

how about using 2 garage doors to make one w/o defects (or 4 damaged doors to make 3) and install one new when you're out of old panels. Seriously, getting glued quarterround out would be a bear. A quick and professional way would be to make a template and use the router and clean out the edges. This wouuld be much easier with the panel flat on the ground-you're inexperienced in th is arena and doing the job horizontally takes practice (a router is dangerous!)

BACKWOODS

Quarter round look could be part of a rail or stile done on a shaper like cabinet doors are made. If so they are not made to come apart. Router bit may be best option if this is the case.

LI Tom

Recessed wood panel garage doors may have the 1/4 round as part of the style on the outside but most have a pinned 1/4 round on the inside. They pinn it on the inside for installation of glass on site or panel replacement. In my experience a good chisel, mini pry bar and hammer will remove the 1/4 round on the inside of the door, (unless the door was installed upside down).

PA woodbutcher

Why are we explaining this to an Overhead Door business owner? Last year I rebuilt my garage door after the wife ever so gently drove through it. That was my first garage door. Keep at it you'll figure it out

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