My front door is the traditional wooden type. Looking at it from outside there is then a wooden door frame. In between the wooden frame and the yorkshire stone pillars around the doorway is some brick red spongy substance which has cracked and lifted. The previous owner has put some masking tape over the spongy stuff and painted it. That too is now lifting and thats when I noticed what the previous owner had done.
Is this stuff mastick? If so is there a special type of mastick needed to go around a door?
I am not a diy expert. Can I gouge the old stuff out with a hammer and chisel and push some new mastick into the hole or will my door fall out/not close any more if I attempt this myself. 8)