Is this beyond repair? Advise please

nekr0mantik

diystarter7 said:

on closer look -  it looks lick plastic so Grip Fill won't do the business.

If it's plaster then I would need to re do the whole door frame area?

enewall1944

As you are not competent to repair this yourself, and it does need to be repaired properly, my suggestion is, if you are a member of your local Facebook page, to ask for recommendations for a reliable, competent and honest handyman in your area. You should be able to get at least 3 quotes. If you get them to explain how they would carry out the repair, you have plenty of information on this forum to enable you to make a judgement whether they know what they are doing and whether they intend to carry out the repair to a high standard. Building companies are generally not interesting in doing minor repairs, which is what this is. Regarding painting, it depends what type of paint was used 5 years ago. If it was gloss paint, painting the repaired area with a different paint such as acrylic is a different texture which might not match the old gloss. Gloss paint tends to undergo slight colour change with age - white gloss tends to yellow with age.

nekr0mantik

I been looking at check a trade.
One company told me 280 for painter to repair but didn't say how they would do it. Will ask but 280 seems steep

chris_n

Surely that is just a wood architrave that has come away from the door lining. No glue actually required (though it might help stopping it from showing) just some judicious taps with a hammer and a block of wood.

Bendy_House

Ene's suggestion of Facebook is good. Are you a member of any local group? If you ask on there, you will almost certainly get a number of recommendations, often repeated - you then just need to sift through!

Yes, £280 seems a bit high, but then again it is a multi-faceted job, requiring a few skills. It's the kind of job that'll require more than one visit - fixing the frame, filling the remaining crack/screw heads, painting. A 'good' handy person will do this easily, tho'.

nekr0mantik

Bendy_House said:

Ene's suggestion of Facebook is good. Are you a member of any local group? If you ask on there, you will almost certainly get a number of recommendations, often repeated - you then just need to sift through!

Yes, £280 seems a bit high, but then again it is a multi-faceted job, requiring a few skills. It's the kind of job that'll require more than one visit - fixing the frame, filling the remaining crack/screw heads, painting. A 'good' handy person will do this easily, tho'.

Don't use Facebook much. Haha
Frame is fine. It's just the architrave that's got crack. 
Any easy way of identifying if it's wood or plaster?

markin

Tap it back down with a block and hammer, And add more nails.

Bendy_House

nekr0mantik said:

Don't use Facebook much. Haha
Frame is fine. It's just the architrave that's got crack. 
Any easy way of identifying if it's wood or plaster?

By looking closely in to the crack. Can you take a close-up photo right up to the split, showing the surface of the material inside?

Bendy_House

Looking at your first photo again, the neatness of the split suggests to me it's MDF that has 'delaminated' - it's a material made up up glued and compressed wood fibre, softer in the middle, and it quite prone to this.

If it's MDF, then the inside of the split will usually be an even brownie-fawn colour - is it?

Repair will be the same as for wood - PVA and screws.

Norman_Castle

Architrave, either wood or plastic just hides the gap between the frame and wall. Highly unlikely wood would split in a staight line. The architrave has just been pulled away from the frame.