Tool Painting French Door

Begin by prepping the door for painting.

Tool painting french door.

You re repainting a previously painted door in the same paint color. A primer and paint is sufficient if any of the following scenarios apply. Speed s painting tools offers paint tools designed and manufactured by painters and our team is here to help. You can add a fresh dose of color to your home with just a few hours of work.

Rollers lay on paint much faster than a brush giving you a few more precious minutes to work the paint before it begins to stiffen. Speed s painting tools is proud to sell door painting systems worldwide with some help from our friends over at the paint shack. It sticks to pretty much everything and any paint will stick to it. You re painting a bare front door for the first time.

Speed painting tools 1 pair door decker. Hole in the bottom of the door and two at the top then turn 4 in. The best way to paint french doors especially if they have old glossy paint on them is to start with a coat of zinsser bin shellac based primer. Painting the french door.

Brush on a light coat. The door decker finishing system is comprised of two steel plates with handles on each attached with brass eyelets. Lag screws 1 1 2 in. Painting a glass paned door isn t as difficult as you might think.

Spread the sawhorses apart just enough so that the door doesn t touch either side but rests entirely on the bolts. Place the door flat on the sawhorses. Take off any removable weatherstripping and apply. Once you ve taken the door off its hinges lay it across two sawhorses or on a large flat surface.

You apply two coats and the liquid mask dries into a clear stretchy plastic. You then paint your door just like i did and remove the liquid mask by tracing around your panes of glass with a utility knife. I committed to adding more color to my life in 2013 and i started by painting the french doors that lead to our living room space. You ll never go wrong starting with a primer.

There s actually a product you can buy called liquid mask that you paint on over the glass on your french door or on windows if you have windows to paint. And you can still paint both sides in a day if you rest the door on lag screws. A heavy coat of paint covers better and sometimes levels out better but runs are more likely and brush marks are deeper. That said i didn t use primer on this particular door.

Roll on the paint where you can. Original creaters of the door decker finishing system mr. To remove the door wedge a flathead screwdriver or chisel in the joint between the hinge and the top of the hinge pins. Each plate is securely screwed into the center of either end of a door with a 8 x 1 1 4 inch phillips wafer head screw included with purchase prior to paint or stain application.