Applying Primer Coat with Roller

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What happens here

After all imperfections are addressed and the door is thoroughly sanded, a primer coat is applied using a 4-inch roller. The presenter initially uses a lint-shedding roller by mistake, which leaves lint particles on the wet primer surface. He advises always using a lint-free roller, such as the Woven-Pro 4" roller (3/8" nap), to avoid this issue. The primer used is a fast-drying oil-based stain-blocking primer, which is crucial for preventing tannins from bleeding through the paint and for ensuring adhesion to the previous stained or painted surface. This primer also helps fill in any remaining checking (splitting in the grain) for a smoother finish.

Goal: Apply a uniform primer coat to seal the wood, block stains, and fill minor imperfections.

Tools and materials

4-inch Roller — Applying the primer coat
Fast-drying Oil Primer — Sealing wood, blocking stains, and filling grain/checking
Paint Bucket with Grid — Holding primer and wringing out the roller

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we're getting close to painting our door [Music] so i'm pre-priming my door so i'm using a fast dry oil primer that's a stain blocking primer also it'll keep any tannins from bleeding through get any dye migration either stain from bleeding through you definitely want to use a stain blocking primer and something that's fast dry so you can start painting it right away but you got to be really careful not to roll over it or you'll stipple it really bad a little tip is unfortunately this roller right here is not a lint free roller big mistake and it left lints all over the the door itself typically i use a woven pro roller uh 3 8 inch woven pro and woven pros from premiere paintbrush and roller they are lit free rollers and they'll never leave these lengths behind now all those are going to have to be they're going to have to be sanded out so it's just going to cause a lot of undue sanding so make sure you get yourself a lint free roller we had a lot of um things we filled in up here there was a lot of um security locks and stuff like that we filled with bondo and we're getting rid of all those or just unsightly on the door bondo'd them now we're priming over them and there the main purpose of this primer is to fill in all the checking that's on this door and the checking is like the splitting in the grain so we're filling in that checking and then it's also a door like this where we've sanded past the lacquer finish or if the lacquer finish is worn out on a white door you would get tannin bleed or dye migration on a door like this and it bleed right into your white paint we don't want that to happen so we're priming it there we go we got just a good coat of oil primer on here we're going to lightly sand that the opposite side can be primed too it's already been painted so it doesn't have to be primed if you need to do any priming on it you can flip it now since you have a primer out one of the questions is always you know what side of the door do you do with the interior color what side of the door do you do the exterior color when you open up a door the edge that you see on the inside should be the interior color when you open up the door the edge you see on the outside should be the exterior color just make sure you're not getting any runs stuff dries extremely fast once again it's a fast dry oil doesn't hang very well but dries fast and it's really nasty and stinky a little hard to flip the door because there's no hinge holes on the side that are mounted…

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