Seperating glued wood

[dirtychinchilla]

Morning all,

Had an unfortunate incident where some kitchen trim has got wet and expanded. I've got the replacement trim - just gone to remove it and cut the new bits and found that the mitred edges are stuck together. Makes sense! But now I'm puzzled by how I remove it nicely.

For this section, I need to remove both pieces:

But for this bit I only need to remove the long section on the right (the other side of the above). I don't want to remove the bit on the left (short bit) because then I need to mastic it back up nicely, and I can't do that.

How do I break the glue joints between these pieces?? I've just tried parting them with a knife with no luck.

Thanks!

dirtychinchilla

 

[aVdub]

Heat.

Try a damp tea towel, an iron and apply gentle heat, which should break the bond.


Be careful to not overdo it though.

Double check for pin nails as well.

 

[200sols]

Probably mitre bonded or similar. Hard to get apart.

 

[hornetstinger]

Could there also be a dowel or two holding them together?

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Thanks everyone. I’ll try steaming it.

I don’t think there’s a dowel…it’s a new build kitchen

 

[Werewolf]

It looks like the gap might be big enough to get a stanley blade into it, or if you can get all the say to the back you might be able to get a bit of fishing line or something in and work it to break the glue, but it's going to depend a lot on the type of glue used as some are much better than others, and given you say it's a new build almost anything could have been used (hopefully not something like CT1).

 

[Brun]

What about cutting the trim to the right of the join and then filing/sanding it back to the mitre?

 

[sigma]

Maybe an easier first attempt to fix it would be to fill the gaps with the same colour product and see how it looks.