Base Board Repair

[mailforhoneyonly]

Hi,
Can Some tell me how to repair the cracks on the wood which is located on top of my garage door.
See the pictures for more details.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mailforhoneyonly/album?.dir=/e286re2&.src=ph&.tok=phjeseFBHfn1MGXP

 

[oilman]

Difficult to be sure from the pictures. Can you easily penetrate the area surrounding the cracks? It looks like the wood may have rotted because of water getting in at the side of the "keystone".

If that's the case, cut out the rotted area, find where the water is getting in and seal it, splice in a replacement piece of wood and re-finish. I like linseed oil paints. They are expensive over here, but the long term maintenance is less than with modern paints, and it doesn't crack. We have window frames that are 130 years old, they would have been treated with linseed oil and then covered with linseed oil paint.

It looks like the main horizontal piece above the opening has the same problem.

 

[masona]

Looks like plywood to me, maybe cut out all the rotted wood, treat it, then use a cut out section exterior thin plywood over it?

 

[big-all]

to me it looks like planks laminated together
with a molding laminated together on top!!!!

see if you can remove the moulded arc from the rotton part
replace with new treated wood replace moulding
if moulding is rotton you should at a cost be able to get a replacment length made at a cost but youll need to take several inches of good molding on to get the radius right

you can off course get bits cast in other outdoor materials [fibreglass plastic resins ect]

and iff your realy lucky they may still make or sell component parts

 

[masona]

to me it looks like planks laminated together
with a molding laminated together on top!!!!

You got me thinking, it could be blockboard.