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DIY Wood Stains. Staining & Clear Coating Interior Wood Trim. How to stain wood windows.

What happens here

Don protective latex gloves. Select a lint-free cloth and dip it into the Sherwin-Williams SHER-WOOD BAC Wiping Stain. Apply the stain to the window casing, wiping it into the wood to ensure it soaks in thoroughly and reaches all nooks and crannies. This type of fast-drying stain is effective at hiding nicks, scratches, and areas where the previous finish was sanded off. Once the entire window casing is stained, use a clean part of the cloth to wipe off any excess stain. Repeat this process until all areas are evenly stained and excess is removed. Allow the stain to dry for one hour before proceeding to the next step.

Goal: Stain the window casing to a uniform color and hide imperfections.

Tools and materials

  • Latex GlovesProtecting hands from stain
  • Lint-Free ClothApplying and wiping off stain

What they say

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made sure it's dustfree now. Now we're getting to the process where we're using Sher William Sherwood BAC wiping stain to actually begin staining it. And that that stain will help hide any nicks, scratches, and any of the the sanding where we've broken down to the the actual stain coat. And this we had to do a lot of sanding. So I took off the stain. I just took Sure Whims. You can just match these stains. You can take a piece of wood down and match it. I have about 20 of them in our shop. And I just brought them down, started sampling them on the wood. I found one that actually matched and and we're going to be staining it. I actually like using the Sherwin Williams BAC wiping stains cuz they dry in 1 hour. So, you can clear coat them in an hour. Most Minwax stains and other stains you'll buy at do-it-yourself places like Home Depot and Lowe's. They take four to six hours to dry and sometimes longer. And then you can't top coat them. And we're trying to get this window done in one day while we're actually painting the kitchen, too. So, I'm going to be staining it. I actually just use a rag. I like putting a pair of latex gloves on because I don't want any of the stain on my hands and um that way I can just pull the gloves off and my hands are clean at the end of the day. So, I just take a little uh lintfree some type of good cloth that's not going to make a mess and just going to dip a little bit of the stain in. And we're going to begin wiping it on the window. And just going to wipe it in. Let it let it soak in really good. And this is this stain matches really good and it begins hiding all the nicks and cracks. And you can see the green tape I put around there. That's frog tape. And that's to protect any tile or grout from getting any of the stain on it bleeding through. We don't want it to bleed through onto their white tile and discolor their tile. So that frog tape works really well with keeping your stain from bleeding through. And just you want to work it down into all these cracks. I'm going to wipe this whole window down with stain. And then I'm going to take a clean part of my cloth and then wipe off the excess. And I'll go through a couple of these little cloths. And you don't want this cloth to get soaking wet with stain where you can't wipe off the excess. And you can see how it hides um all the sanding and scratches and nicks pretty well. And then once you clear coat it, it'll actually even hide it even better. And so we're going to…

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