Is there any way of fixing a punch mark in a door?

In a drunken moment of madness I thought it would be funny to punch my bedroom door. It now has a punch mark in it where the wood is all cracked. Is there anyway of fixing it without actually replacing the door?|||haha, i just had to do this but with a shoe sized whole in the wall. there are kits at walmart! over by the pant and stuff where they have sandpaper and spackle (sp?) They work very well!|||Doors are generally constructed in a wafer - a very thin external veneer sandwiches a hollow core made up of a frame and usually some honeycomb material like cardboard for sound absorption.





The wood making up the external veneer is a composite - much like plywood, only a _lot_ thinner.





Having smacked it to where it's splintered, the only reliable fix is to replace the door - you won't succeed trying to replace the veneer.





Optionally, if it's an inside portion of an inside door - cover it with a poster or calendar. Doors aren't cheap.|||Several options spring to mind:-





1) Wood filler (as a few others have suggested). You'd need to sand the door back quite a bit for the filler to adhere though, then sand smooth before re-painting.





2) A quicker option would be to measure the door and then buy thin plywood to the exact size, roughly sand the door, apply glue and stick - you may need to use clamps to hold the plywood in place until the glue dries.





3) You could tile the door - cork tiles (can be good but your room will stink of a smokey bacon type smell for ages!!), mirror, thin slate, mosaic, etc etc.|||Was it funny? Lucky for you it is your door. Same was done in my motel. I fixed the holes with checkerplate steel in the door and in the walls, and then fixed them up so pretty like nothing ever happened. Anybody tries that number again will see how HARD the wall and door can actually be. It will be funny indeed to watch them go to hospital with broken hand.|||Take the door's exact measurements. Do go home depot and see what the price of new door would be. You can just buy the slab, not the frame. If the door you hit is cheap it may be hard to fix, and buy the time you buy supplies a new one may be the better option. You can use the existing hinges and door knob and put on the new door.


Do the doors at HD match your door. Are you renting or own? If renting then you may have to match the door style with the other doors.


a%26gt;|||A cheap way to fix it would be to buy some Minwax wood putty, fill the hole with the aid of a putty knife, let it dry, sand it smooth, and try to stain/paint the door to match.





.....or you could spend about 70-80$ and buy a new door. It sounds like you have the basic hollow door made from particle wood.





...and even cheaper fix would be to stop drinking so much.|||Oooooooops!!! Best use your pillow next time! Hope your hand is ok.





You'll find it quite difficult to fix the punch mark - but posters make great 'punch mark plasters'!!!





I rented a real ****hole of a house when I first moved out of home (it was necessary at the time!) It had punch marks all over the place.


I put a pin / notice board over the one in the kitchen door, and posters over the others.





Good luck with it.|||yes go to your local home repair store...you can get this stuff that is a mess and cut it out and put over the whole then cover that with some door repair stuff kinds like paste..put enough on it and let it dry...once it is dry then sand it to a smooth finish. youmigh have to paint that area too|||hey my rother punched one in his door a while ago and fixed it the other day you need to get some filler you can get that from any DIY shop like homebase and filll it in leave it to dry and then when its dry you can re paint over it good as new! :)|||I did the same thing once and I had to replace the door.





If the door is painted and not stained wood, you have a better chance of fixing it with a wall patch product (at any hardware store)......then you have to sand it smooth and pain it. It should be fine.|||punch the back lol





hmmm try turning it round so the punch mark is on the insside of the room, then put a hook on it and hang coats there to cover it up





yeah, just buy a new door|||Obvious answer i would recommend getting a new door, but i get the same way sometimes the best solution is get a punch bag and i dont mean a women haha|||some carpenters can patch it and color it. But sometimes it is not worth the labor charge and you have to replace it.|||Fill it and paint it, to match the door. Or take a hammer and hit it on the other side.|||buy a new doorrr... =D





why is there a punch mark in a door anyway? o.O








oh. haha. i forgot to read the question description x]|||Yeah they sell patches at Home Depot or Lowes, and you can also build up the whole with putty, also Lowes or HD sand it down and repaint it|||This should help you.


http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/rm_door_window_鈥?/a>





I'm glad you punched a door and not another person.|||A filler (like Polyfilla) then sand it until it is flat. Finally you paint it.|||Get a new door. Or my old favourite, put a poster over the hole.|||You might be able to do it using filler and paint. Explain the situation at the diy store and see which they suggest.|||replace the door or youll feel guilty every time you look at it!





Try a wet plunger|||most likely not dude,sorry... haha|||just go over it with a small bit of cement :) and repaint the door :)|||punch it from the other side|||Spackle|||cover it with a poster. LOL