Spray Painting Six Panel Doors

Choose whether you need to prime the door before painting.

Spray painting six panel doors.

Start by painting the edges of the door with either the brush or roller. Be on the lookout for drips or puddles of paint. If the door was originally painted with latex paint priming should be unnecessary. Door painting labor basic basic labor to paint door with favorable site conditions.

Includes planning equipment and material acquisition area preparation and protection setup and cleanup. If that s the case brush them you can make those door look beautiful painting them with a broom im kidding but you get my point their are some good videos on you tube of painters brushing out 6 panel doors if they are real wood 6 panel doors it does take a skill to make them look beautiful. Next paint the door panels. If it was painted with oil based paint prime before using a latex based paint.

It would have taken me probably 5 6 straight work hours to paint all 7 doors by hand. Prep up to 1 hr per door remove mask hardware scrape and sand spot prime. Go back and check the face of your door for drips now before the paint cures. For a standard 6 panel door this is the order to go in.

So if you re painting a door you can t live without like a bathroom or exterior door start first thing in the morning so it can be back in service by day s end. When you are done let the doors dry for 2 hours before flipping to paint the other side. Painting a door typically takes three to five hours depending on the condition of the door and how fussy you are. Highly recommend going this route if you have a bunch of doors to paint.

Let your door dry 30 minutes 1 hour then follow up with a second coat of paint. In the process of painting all those doors i ve developed this easy method for how to paint a door without brush marks or streaks. I like to use a 1 1 2 brush to paint the recessed molding areas followed by a 4 roller for the flat surfaces in the middle. Chris and i have painted a lot of six panel doors in our time we installed and painted 8 new doors at our first house and every door in our current house is a primed and unpainted six panel door in need of paint.

When painting wood doors make sure all six sides of your door are covered to protect it from rotting cracking and expansion. Hi i am painting my bathroom trim and 6 panel. Painting tips and techniques spraying doors are shown and expl. Are they the composite 6 panel doors that have an embossed wood grain on them.

How to spray doors. Spraying the doors only required pockets of 10 15 minutes at a time and freed up a lot of time to do other things.