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Apply First Coat of Primer

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Exterior Painting Tips | Restoring a door jamb

What happens here

With the door frame sanded, the presenter applies the first coat of primer. He uses Peel Stop Triple Thick primer, applying it with a brush to ensure it's pushed deeply into any 'checking' (small cracks) and splintering in the wood. He explains that applying primer this way, especially to bare wood, significantly improves the adhesion of subsequent caulk and paint layers, providing a more durable and uniform finish. He covers all exposed wood and areas where peeling paint was removed.

Goal: Seal bare wood and peeling paint with a primer coat

Tools and materials

  • 5-Gallon BucketHolding the primer for easy access
  • Paint BrushApplying primer to the door frame, ensuring deep penetration
  • Peel Stop Triple Thick Primer ZinsserSealing and filling imperfections on the door frame

What they say

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this door jam brick mold does get weathered um it wears out pretty fast starts peeling you can replace it brick mold is common at every do-it-yourself hardware store to buy this piece you can cut it off but you can if you sand it and prime it it'll actually look pretty decent and if it's not in the C customers budget to do a full replace then you can sand Prime uh it sand it again and it'll actually look pretty amazing we'll show you what the in results going to look like it does need to be cauled also but I'm going to Prime first we got some bare wood a lot of bare wood the caulking is going to stick better to primed wood versus bare wood so I'm going to put a coat of of triple thck on here I'll sand it after it's dry put a second coat of triple thick it's going to fill in all this checking on here and then eventually when we hand brush it we'll put two coats hand brushed on and we'll see how it's going to look it'll actually I know it's going to look amazing so but we'll show you on camera what it's going to look like so I'm just going to brush on a coat it's better to brush it on cuz you're going to be pushing it down into all the checking and splintering and you want to lay it out nicely cuz you do want this door jam to look nice when it's done you don't want to have it all stippled with paint so so um Mr fly wants to bother me still all this will be cocked on the side here we'll all that after we prime it the primer is going to dry pretty fast hand brush you can see it's filling it in just with one coat the triple thick is white so it's going to dry white so you'll see exactly where I [Music] went [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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