I Thought This Metal Door Was Ruined… Until This Fix

Not sure how a door gets this dinged up. Maybe kids Somebody hitting golf balls at it. I don't know. This is like crazy. Going to begin Bondo glazing putty on here. I'm going to be doing a lot more nicks and dings. So, I'm going to put quite a bit more on. Ding right there. This ding right there. Here's multiple dings there. So, I'm going to open the door. So, now I can get a cross lighting right here [clears throat] where I can see a lot better. There's a lot of dings right here. And this heat Bondo's going to dry really fast. In this light, I can see it really good. When I got the door closed like that, I can't see it very good at all. But, you can start to see there's quite a few dings on this door. And I can make this door look way better with just a little bit of effort. A long ding right here. Watch this one. Right there. Skim that pretty heavy. Ding there. Ding there. There. It dries really fast. I'll get myself some more. I don't like to wear sunglasses when I video just so you can see my eyes when I'm talking to you. But, I got to wear sunglasses cuz it's so bright over here. I can't even see without them. Not sure how a door gets this dinged up. Maybe kids in the backyard throwing balls at it. Somebody hitting golf balls at it. I don't know. This is like crazy. So, that's what it looks like. There's Yeah, there's some spits on here. Whoever sprayed didn't practice good technique starting and stopping off the door. Those will probably sand out. So, we'll let that dry. The Bondo glazing putty dries really, really fast. It starts to get this kind of light red pinkish color when it's dry. What you don't want to do is sand it too soon cuz if you sand it too soon on like heavy dings, it'll load up your abrasive and ruin your abrasive. So, I'm going to let that set. We're going to go off and then we'll come back and sand it. You'll be able to tell if you need to do a second coat of Bondo. Wherever there's dark spots, you can see where it sands it. You can see where it's it's lightened it up and there's spots that just shrank a little bit too much cuz the divots were pretty big. So, we're going to have to just skim one more coat of Bondo over here. We'll sand it one more time. When you got big divots, Bondo does shrink, you know, quite a bit. That's one of the drawbacks to it, but it's the only way to completely eliminate a divot. Make sure it's all masked off, got the sides masked off, got the hole masked off on the other side so I don't get overspray inside. We're good to go. It looks better than I thought it was going to look. So, that looks pretty impressive. So, I ended up picking up new hinges for it. So, the hinges will look nice. Weather strips were black weather strips. It's white trim, white door. We'll install white weather strips and it's going to look fresh, clean, and new. It would probably cost about $1,200 to get a new door door jamb. So, this is a a good fix to make this thing, you know, look really good and it's not going to be cost nearly 1,200 bucks. I always like using a flexible knife. So, this is a two-edge 2-in flex knife right here. I don't like stiff knives. I like flexible knives. The sanders right here, I talked about it. So, my Equa sand 3 by 4 sander with film tech. This will sand all your nicks and dings flat. I sanded with film tech 320 on the flats then I use my Equa silk fine sponge on the contoured edges. You can't use spackle. Spackle's too soft. A little ding like that, it'll just sand the spackle right out. It'll still be there. Spackle's too brittle on a door like this, too. I typically just have a plastic putty knife right here. The Bondo doesn't stick to it. It'll actually just break off.