Bottom lip

Before I started the painting, I asked Brian if he could look at the bottom lip of the door. Although, we’d cleaned off the rust, it was still looking like it may not last another winter, so he asked me to hold off on the painting until he’d taken time to think about it.

I couldn’t resist putting a first coat on, just to see what it was going to look like, but I avoided the area in which he was going to work. He had made a plan that included adding something on, and was soon shaping a piece of metal to fix to the bottom of the door.

He glued it in place with a lot of metal epoxy glue, and clamped it into place whilst it dried. It wasn’t looking great yet, but I knew he still had quite a bit of work to do on it.

He then had the tricky task of smoothing the joins with a metal bodywork filler, and rubbing it down to form the new lip.

It took a while, and I wasn’t sure what it would look like, but what a transformation.