Remove the door stop and molding.
Repair wooden garage door frame.
Measure across the top of trim on the outside of the door from the outside corners of both pieces of vertical trim that you just nailed on.
Take care not to damage the stop as you remove it from the frame.
Cut a piece of trim to that measurement.
Inspect the garage door for wood rot.
Press the form against the filler and attach it with screws.
Quickly learn how to repair a rotten door frame with miracle bond repair epoxy.
Dig out any rotten wood.
Inspecting the garage door for rot signs is very important.
How to repair a rotten wood door frame using miracle bond epoxy.
Even without damage dampness is enough to cause wood rot.
When a garage door frame suffers severe damage there s a big possibility that the door needs to be fixed or replaced as well.
Mix up two part automotive filler.
Fill the void with the filler.
The most susceptible areas to wood rot are the frames and bottom parts of the garage door.
Start at the bottom of the frame and work your way up.
Most medium to large repairs will require at least two layers of filler.
How to repair damaged wood.
The more expensive the material the more expensive it will be to repair.
Obviously the materials used in building the garage door frame and the garage door itself have a large bearing on the repair costs involved.
Or you can wait until the sagging filler reaches the hardness of soap and carve it off with a putty knife or chisel or shape it with a surform plane or rasp photo 2.