Is this beyond repair? Advise please

nekr0mantik

Bendy_House said:

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?

It's difficult to see inside but here is close up.

Bendy_House

Thanks, but as you say it's hard to tell.

Do you have a craft knife? Could you carefully gouge a sliver off one of these edges to expose the material underneath the paint? (It'll all need filling and painting anyway...)

A then a close up photo, please.

Mistral001

If it is wood then it is a straight forward job for a joiner and then repainting.  If it is plastic whatever repair that is done, it will probably not be invisible and you will have to put up with a thin full length plastic strip over the repair.  Extra frame fixing screws will probably be required screwed into the wall.  If these are not covered by the plastic strip, then plastic caps over countersunk heads of the screws might be considered.  Not invisible but but at least it will not look like a repair to most people.

nekr0mantik

Bendy_House said:

Thanks, but as you say it's hard to tell.

Do you have a craft knife? Could you carefully gouge a sliver off one of these edges to expose the material underneath the paint? (It'll all need filling and painting anyway...)

A then a close up photo, please.

Need to find something thin enough to scrape that. Will see if I can find anything.

I'm kinda cautious about adding a job to place like Facebook or airtasker which shows my door chain not secure and then having my approx location on there haha 

Eldi_Dos

If it is plastic some suitable length interscrews should pull split back together, glue split as you tighten up screws.
May need wood batten or suitable nylon washers to spread load.

Norman_Castle

Try tapping it, if it sounds hollow its probably plastic or remove the screws holding the chain to the architrave. You should then be able to tell if its plastic. Replacing the chain mounting screws with screws long enough to go into the frame would hopefully close the gap and be a stronger fixing.

It looks like its previously been filled so its probably always been weak.