Hi, the doors on the cabinets above the hob have blown with the heat. My plan is to drill some holes from the rear and feed in some adhesive to fix the plastic cover to the mdf again. My question is which adhesive would be best? Or is there a better way?
thanks
Replacement doors
You need a fairly fluid glue that you can drop into the holes, with the doors bulge side down, and then swill around. That implies a lot of solvent, but I don't see how that will evaporate?
Are there any very liquid two part glues?
Maybe remove the whole of the laminate and glue it back with ordinary contact adhesive?
Polyester resin as used in fibreglass manufacture. Holts is your friend Its one part plus a catalyst. Very liquid sets rock hard
'blown' is too vague to know what would work. In any case I'd not use water based glue, mdf, chip etc typically respond to water by expanding.
I think I have some polyester resin. I used it for a surfboard repair, and yes it is runny. Another bonus it isn't smelly. I used a syringe to inject it into the repair last time too. Thanks.
I had a door with the plastic imitation wood patter skin detached from the mdf. I removed it and carefully separated it, sprayed t both sides with carpet adhesive, reassembled and laid it horizontal with a sheet of chipboard on top añd a couple weights. 24 hours later I reassembled the hinges and refitted the door.
Fascinating. I have exactly the same problem with my kitchen cupboard doors. Is carpet adhesive (say Copydex) better than Evo Stick do you think?
I used the spray carpet adhesive. It smelt like an evostik type product.
OK,thanks :-)
They are basically the same, just different viscosity of the glue
I thought carpet glue was latex based?
Isn't evostik?
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