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Avoiding Warping with Vertical Stacking

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Door Deckers | Painting Doors Laying Flat

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It's crucial to understand that hollow-core doors can warp if stacked horizontally for any significant period, especially when wet with heavy coats of paint. The moisture from the paint can cause the door material to sag and warp over time. To prevent this, after the paint has dried to the touch, or ideally the same day, transition the doors from horizontal stacking to vertical stacking. Mr. Speed's Door Deckers facilitate this by utilizing the existing hinge holes for their bumpers, allowing doors to be stacked vertically without creating new holes. This ensures the doors maintain their shape and integrity during the drying process.

Goal: This critical tip warns against stacking hollow-core doors horizontally for extended periods due to warping risks, especially when wet with paint. It recommends vertical stacking using Door Deckers for proper drying and structural integrity.

Tools and materials

  • Mr. Speed's Door Deckers
  • Hollow-core Doors N/A

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tight enough there are a lot of people that aren't comfortable spraying doors up youo CU you can get runs and sags really easily and spraying them down um some people have more confidence spraying them down now um whether you know you're good enough or not good enough to spray them you know up versus down um is kind of you know irrelevant spraying them down you can actually get more Mill thickness and if you're going from white to black you don't have to Fog Coat the door multiple times to get it to cover you can actually spray it one coat and be done as you'll see in the video of me spraying a white door to a black color now I couldn't have got away with doing that without getting runs drips or sags you know in one coat I would have had a Fog Coat them once and then I would have had to um coat them one more time you know standing up and that's from One Professional painter to another so there is a time and a place you know for spraying up versus spraying down and I think this is was um a simple and easy to use tool for spraying Doors Down When it comes to spraying holoc cor doors this is a tip you want to know and understand before you run into a disaster spraying Doors Down with any type of system and that is holoc cor doors will warp if you stack them horizontally for any period of time especially when you're spraying heavy coats of paint on both sides the moisture in the paint will actually cause the door to Sag and warp over time if you let it set horizontally so you definitely want to flip them rotate them but misser speeds as these bumpers that are applied where the hinge will go so you're not putting any new holes in the door right where the hinge you're going to put you know um two of these on one side so your doors can go from stacked horizontally to Stacked vert vertically if they're going be stacked for any long period of time so they won't warp so that is a pro tip definitely use the bumpers you know and I would recommend spraying your doors down letting them dry and then down stacking them vertically so they won't War you know after probably at least a day or I'd even recommend probably same day once they're dry down stack and vertically and the door Deckers you'll actually work um with them stacked vertically also like they will um work horizontally

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