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Fill Nail Holes, Sand, and Clean

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What happens here

All visible nail holes from the brad nailer are filled with Minwax wood filler. A technique of applying a small amount and scraping off the excess is demonstrated to minimize sanding later. Once the filler is dry, the entire shiplap and trim structure is sanded smooth. The builder shares a tip about adjusting the oscillation speed of the sander to avoid sanding through the primer on MDF surfaces, especially when using a finer grit. After sanding, a damp rag is used to meticulously wipe down all surfaces, removing any fine dust to ensure a clean finish for painting.

Goal: Fill all nail holes and imperfections with wood filler, sand the entire structure smooth, and clean off all dust to prepare for painting.

Tools and materials

  • Damp Rag
  • Ear Protection
  • Orbital Sander Festool
  • Putty Knife / Spreader
  • Safety Glasses
  • Sanding Discs (120-220 grit)
  • Wood Filler Minwax

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that's perfect easy peasy for wood filler i'm using this minwax stuff it's nice and durable it's not as flaky as some of the other stuff a little trick do not put too much scrape most of it off that way uh when it comes to sanding you're not sanding off all this primer that's already been placed on it give it a quick light one let it dry and then sand it to either light 120 or heavy on 220 it's up to you i go light so i'm going to share a trick with you guys that i uh well i didn't realize till recently and uh it's a silly thing but i hope i'm not the only one so every time you have a sander and you're saying something we all hate it right and uh you always want the most grip the fastest and the most powerful standard you can get so you can get to the job faster and over with well then when you're sanding like mdf like this and you're sanding a lot of this wood filler if you have too low of a grit of sandpaper then it takes forever to stand it off if you have it too high like 120. it's very quickly you can take off a lot of the primers already there on the mdf so then i go wait why would a sander have speed controls you wanted the fastest but then i realized if you lower the speed lower the oscillations you don't have to be very quick about your sanding to not take off the primer you can just pace it with that oscillation speed it's the silliest thing in the world but i just recently learned it so enjoy it because we sanded it the dust fell you can't talk right now because it doesn't get trapped i always take a damp rag and go along every edge and surface collecting any of that fine dust that'll keep us from having a nice clean finished surface and then we're gonna

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