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Remove Door Hardware and Clean Surfaces

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BEST Way To Paint Doors. AIRLESS SPRAYING.

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What happens here

After masking, the door hardware is removed. The presenter advises paying attention to the different screw lengths (e.g., long screw at the top, short at the bottom) and using painter's tape to label them or keep them organized with their respective parts. This ensures correct reassembly later. Once the hardware is removed, the doors are cleaned using a microfiber towel and Dawn dish soap. This cleaning step is crucial to remove any contaminants that could lead to 'fish-eye' defects in the paint finish, where the paint pulls away from contaminated spots due to surface tension differences. The presenter stresses using a clean, non-contaminated towel for this process.

Goal: The hardware (handles, latches) is carefully removed from the doors, and all surfaces are thoroughly cleaned to ensure optimal paint adhesion.

Tools and materials

  • Microfiber Towel
  • Screwdriver (various sizes)
  • Dawn Dish Soap Dawn
  • Painter's Tape (blue)

What they say

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there where I can find them now I'm to the point where I could almost take this door off I'm gonna take and start cleaning it with my Dawn dish soap right here in my microfiber towel make sure you use a towel that has no contaminant it's on it that's you know clean if you don't get any of these and all the contaminants off once again I say you could run into a problem you know what we call fisheye and that's were the surface tension of the surface or contaminant is different than the surface tension of the paint and what you end up seeing is these little round circles where the paint is moving away from the contaminant and they look like these little circles and we call them fish eyes this common term I'm not going to paint this metal strip at all I'm leaving that metal that's kind of like a powder coated metal the powder coating is always the best finish yeah also since this doors white we'll just leave it but I'm gonna do you want to pick these doors off and then I don't want all the air conditioning to leave this house and cause a customer you know a bunch of flies coming in and a bunch of money and I'm lost you know cool air so I'll take the doors off and then I'll put plastic up to cover that so now I'm getting ready to spray I've got my sprayer here one of the things I'm gonna do I don't want anything to go wrong with these doors they're smooth doors I don't want any contamination I'm just gonna run some soapy water I got some Dawn dish soap in here I'm gonna run that through my sprayer you know first and then just to get that sprayer all cleaned out make sure there's no

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