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Prepare the Window Trim

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

What happens here

The video begins by highlighting a window trim with significant water damage, including a worn clear coat, nicks, and scratches, emphasizing the need for repair. The initial preparation involves thoroughly sanding the affected wood surface using a medium-grit 3M sanding sponge. This process removes the old clear coat and stain, and smooths out any imperfections on the trim. After sanding, the area is meticulously cleaned with a duster brush or an old paintbrush, followed by vacuuming, to ensure all dust and debris are completely removed, creating a pristine, dust-free surface ready for staining.

Tools and materials

  • 3M Sanding Sponge (Medium Grit)
  • Duster Brush or Old Paintbrush
  • Vacuum

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here that's right behind a sink and it's getting a lot of water and moisture on uh stained and lacquered window and it's caused a lot of damage, water damage and it's worn out the clear coat on the window. And we're actually sanding this window. We're just using 3M sanding sponges and then we're going to stain it with a BAC stain and let that dry for about 2 hours. And then we're going to clear coat it with a Minwax water-based oil modified clear coat. And as you can see a close-up view of this. You can see we've actually sanded it and trying to get down and sand as much of the stain off and clear coat off as we can and smooth out the edges. Again, there's a lot of nicks and scratches on this window and those will all be covered up when we actually wipe our BAC stain on it. We're actually using a Sherwin Williams BAC stain we got right here. And these are fast drying commercial and industrial stains. And we're just going to be wiping it on with a rag prior to staining and clear coating this window. We're going to be masking the tile and grout off down here so we don't have any bleed or a stain onto the grout. We're going to be using Sure Tape, Frog Tape. It's a green tape that swells and doesn't allow any bleeding through. Actually tooken this window. I've just used a 3M sanding sponge, a medium sanding sponge, just went around sanded this window by hand. And then I just took a a duster brush. I had an old paint brush that I went around dusted it off and I vacuumed up all the dust and made sure it's dustfree now. Now we're

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