hi there, i'm jason guy with www.trimlinepaintinginc.com and today i'm going to show you how to paint a door. this particular one right here is an exterior door obviously and it's got a factory coat of primer on it, it's a metal door by the way these kinds of projects are very, very easy to do and yet, it's still a project that i see people screw up all the time.
paint colors for garage doors, and the way that it's screwed up is that people just simply don't prep it right and prep is very, very important on one of these things it's really important on every job, but even more so on a job like this believe it or not and the reason being is because a door is something that is handled on its surface
all the time by a lot of different people and if you don't prep it right, you will be able to go though after this is all done with your brand new paint on here, and you will be able to take your finger nail and go like this and it will come off that easy so prep is extremely important on one of these guys and i'm going to show you how to do that and then how to finish it to make it look like everything else that's already here, so let's go ahead and get started. alright, first thing i did is i went ahead and just took off all the hardware you'll actually see a lot of painters, more probably than not
that will just leave the hardware on there and they will actually just tape around this and paint the door as it is. i don't like to do that. this takes about, you know it took me, a minute to take it off, literally it's very, very ease to take off. it's very very easy to put on. why not take it off, that way i get paint behind here and should this thing shift, or something like that, and there's like a white edge here. this door is actually going to be dark blue so if i saw a white edge around here because i didn't take this thing off and something happened. it just doesn't look as good, so why not just take this off
and then you have no chance of getting paint on this or anything like that so i think it's a really good idea. and then just put the hardware back together on here that's a really good trick, so that way you're not loosing screws or anything like that then we are going to need to sand the door this right here is 220 grit sandpaper. i picked a nice fine grade sandpaper because this is a metal door and this is kind of a fine surface. the heavier grit you go, say you go down to 150 grit or something like that that's going to be a courser grade sandpaper you are going to see more scratch marks in this, and i just didn't want to see that
so i got a fairly fine grade sandpaper here the way this sandpaper comes is it comes in a sheet like this you know it's one sheet, and then i just rip it in half like that put it together and tri fold it and you got your piece of sand paper in a nice tight package like that and you are going to want to go though and sand the door down now you are going to want to go though and you want to sand it and that's good enough for that section right there alright i went though and i sanded this whole door down now the next thing that we need to do is actually more important than the sanding is we need to go though and we need to wash the door
we are going to do that and we are going to wash it down with trisodium phosphate trisodium is one of those things that there is no brand that is probably any better than any other just pick up whatever is the cheapest down at the hardware store and always, always, always, wear gloves when you're working with this stuff some people don't wear gloves. i have to. this stuff irritates the living hell out of my skin so it's really important that you cover up with this stuff so that you don't get any kind of itchy skin or anything like that and we are going to go though and wash this thing all down
i've got a bucket here with a little bit of trisodium in it and some water, and use hot water, hot water is better than cold water believe it or not it will go though and clean this thing a little bit better and why we us trisodium is because even though we sanded the door there might be grease that was left on here from just handling it or whatever, and we need to make sure that we start with a nice clean surface so that our paint adheres just like we want it to. so let me go though and wash this all down and then we are going to rinse it off with just clean water and then after that you are going to want to let it dry so let go and do that.
so now its time to go ahead and start painting this thing and you are going to need a two inch brush, a two inch angle xl-dale a bucket, a strainer bag, and your paint right here. whenever you doing this kind of stuff you are going to want to strain it. if this paint is dirty at all, you can really make your door look really bad if you don't strain it and make sure it's clean first that's always the first thing that we want to do so grab your strainer bag, put it in the bucket like this get a five in one, to open your can here.
and you just open it like so, now this one right here has been sitting for quite a while you can see that there is all kinds of colorant float in there and the oils will float to the top so you are going to want to make sure that you stir everything you use if it's been sitting really good before you start. so i'm going to go ahead and do that. now i'm just going to show you how to strain this stuff i've shown how to strain this stuff you've got a roller cover right in there but i'm going to show you how get all of the paint out of your strainer bag if you don't have a roller and a grid screen to kind of clean it off so you just pour your paint in here, and you can see that there is a lot of
chunk and crap there in the paint, so it's good that we are straining this out you always want to keep your paint can right here clean so that when we go and put everything back, it's not all caked in there and glued shut for the next time you need it so go ahead and take your strainer bag out like this and kind of lift it out, and get the majority of your paint out, like so. and then with the strainer bag still in the paint you want to kind of put some slack in the strainer bag and then you want to kind of spin it just like this. and what it will do, is you will actually be able to spin and get most of the paint out of the strainer bag
without having to even grip it. see how it's kind of twisted up like that. now the majority of the paint that was in there, is now in my bucket and i didn't get my hands all dirty so that's a cool trick to know. now i got my brush and i got a hook here on my brush, so i don't submerge my brush. and that's my setup. before we paint this door, we need to look at how it opens so that we can paint the correct edge when we're looking at this door like this, and then you want to open the door, and whatever edge opens to the side that you're painting is the edge that you need to paint
so it would be incorrect to paint this blue door and then paint this edge right here that would be incorrect because when we look at it this way when it opens, we are going to see this edge now if we were doing the other side of the door and we are on the other side and we open it and it opens this way then we would do the other edge and it would be incorrect to do this edge so whatever edge opens to you on the side that you are doing is the edge that you need to paint alright first things first we are going to paint that edge just like you see in the picture in picture there you're going to want to paint the edge of the door first and then we can move onto the face of the door and start doing the panels and inset. since this is a metal door you are going to want to make sure that you give this door the illusion that it's a wooden door or something like that
and how we do that is on the insets you'll notice that i have horizontal brush strokes on the horizontal inset parts and then i have vertical brush strokes for all the vertical looking stuff you don't want to make all your brush strokes go horizontal and you don't want all your brush strokes to go vertical. you want them to have that opposing look right there and it will look a lot better than if you try and paint it all with the brush strokes going one way you'll also want to break it into sections like this and paint the panels out and then come back and do all the face pieces of the door afterwords because if you try to do this door all at once top to bottom you won't be able to do it before the material sets up on you, so we do it in sections like this so we can keep a wet edge all the way through the door, and you'll notice here i'm doing all the vertical faces first
and then i'm going to come back though and i'm going to do all the horizontal faces, and i'm going to kind of cut a line where they meet, and that's going to give the door the appearance that it's also made out of wood and has got opposing grains so you're going to see the brush strokes going all these different ways, and that's the way its supposed to be, that's the most correct way to do it. you do not ever want to roll one of these things. i've seen guys roll these doors out with little weenie rollers and it really looks terrible don't ever roll one of these, if you're going to do it you need to brush it, or if you have a lot of time to kill you can spray them or if you have a lot of doors you can spray them and it would be time efficient but that's basically the way you want to do it, this way you'll be able to keep a wet edge all the way though like you see and the door will turn out really, really nice. so as you can see we have a first coat on this door, and i thought this would be a good time to talk about materials.
i did this in a low sheen latex. typically when i do these things i like to do them in semi-gloss but since i had to match all the old weathered stuff that was done around here, i went ahead and did it in a low sheen and that's okay but i i like semi-gloss better or gloss better. for trim and doors and that kind of thing. never ever use flat latex on your doors, please. it's terrible it attracts the grease on your hands and all that kind of stuff, it doesn't hold up quite as well as this, so don't ever use flat latex but if you need to use low sheen to match a kind of weathered look or semi-gloss if you are doing all brand new stuff is my preference this has only got one coat on it and you can see that it's scratchy, you can still see some of the white through and the holidays and that kind of thing, that's fine we need to go over it again this is a dark color, i totally anticipated this, so now we are going to go through and put our second coat on.
okay this thing is all finished, we've got two coats on it. you are going to want to make sure that you don't close it right on the weather stripping here, right while its fresh like this. it's not a bad idea if it's taking a long time for your door to dry, to take this out for maybe a couple of days so that the door is not resting on anything when it closes
also wait until the door is nice and dry before you put your hardware back on. give it a couple of hours if you can and you will be really happy. i hope this video was helpful, and i hope all my videos are helpful. please check out www.trimlinepaintinginc.com for more painting videos and painting articles. [music] evanescence - my last breath
