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Prime the Door to Fill Grain

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$25 Door Restoration. From Junk to Useable in 3 hours.

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Tools and materials

  • 2-gallon Bucket with 1-gallon Grid
  • 4-inch Paint Roller (Lint-Free)
  • Paint Brush
  • Woven-Pro 4" Rollers (Lint-Free)

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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

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