so let me show you an easy way to make filling this a heck of a lot easier
what's up guys i want to show you a cool trick we are in a doorway here we're actually going to
be deleting the door that goes here so i've already removed the door stops but because
we're keeping the jam the frame is staying we're left with these notches from the hinges
so in order to get rid of those you could fill them simply by putting some wood filler in there
but because it's a fairly deep cut out it would take a lot of filler it would take a long time for
that filler to dry and generally using that much filler tends to crack and it's not the best way to
do things so let me show you an easy way to make filling this a heck of a lot easier all you need
is a shim a knife some wood glue and some tape let's begin first thing you're going to do is
you're going to take the thin end of the shim and make sure that it's a reasonably good fit
into your cutout right where i want it i'm going to make a mark
just simply going to make a as you can see i made my one slash with a knife and then it should
break right on that spot so now i've got my piece i'm gonna apply a liberal amount of wood glue the
reason i like to put more than less is because a lot of the times you'll find that the notching
for these hinges isn't always smooth so to uh to make up for any lumps or bumps back there i put on
a little bit more glue than i normally would so i probably normally stop there but i'm going to put
on a little bit more it's gonna help it spread out and sit flat so the next tip comes the placement
now when i put this in what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna slide it all the way to the outside edge
and the reason for that is it's going to be a lot easier for me to fill
this gap than it is for me to create this edge again so if i pull that shim all the way to line
up with the edge of this jam then i don't have to recreate that with filler and that's going to
make life a lot easier so once you've got the shim sitting where you want it to just take this tape
and lock that into place
so when that sets up you might find that this gym is a little proud of the jam
that's actually not a bad thing so what you're gonna do in that case is put your filler in
preferably some wood filler load the crack and then take a sander sand it down so it's
flush with the jam and then you're gonna wanna go over it with a couple coats of a finer aggregate
skimming product like a glazing putty some primer sand the primer down and then when you paint it
you won't even notice that that's there it's a simple trick but this will save you
a lot of time and it'll get you better results and you can thank us now for getting out of the jam
you