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How to paint a door while not taking it down. Painting A Door.

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This project provides a step-by-step guide on how to prepare and spray paint an exterior door and its frame while it remains installed on the house. Key steps include masking off surrounding areas, the doorknobs, and the interior door frame to prevent overspray. The door jamb is also prepared with sanding, Peel Bond, and caulk. Finally, an airless sprayer is used to apply paint, ensuring complete coverage by aiming from various angles and utilizing proper spraying techniques.

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This is Chris from BNK Painting. In this video, we're going to show you how to spray an exterior door that's um already on the side on the house. And we're not going to take the door down. Um the house we're actually painting today is it's going to be sprayed the same color. And the side man doors to the garage are typically the same color as the base. And it's pretty simple masking process. We use a 3M hand masker. We're going to mask the footings off. We're going to mask the two door knobs off. And we're going to mask the inside of the door. Here we've actually masked the inside to make sure no overspray goes through. We just use inch and a half tape all around the inside of the door so overspray won't go on the inside of the trim. We put it all the way around the door. We actually put it on the back side. This side of the door too. And then we put it on this side also. And then the handles. We just leave the handles on. So, we're just going to take some masking, short strip of masking, uh, 1 in tape with 9 in paper, and I'll wrap it around this handle. And I want to keep it about a 16th of an inch away from the door. So, when we go to pull the masking off, it won't actually pull the paint off if cuz we're going to pull the masking off while the door is still wet. So, we're going to wrap this masking around. And this has to be perfect. You don't want the masking actually touching the painted part of the door cuz then that part of the door won't get painted. You only want it on the doororknob itself. Wrap it around. And then we'll just twist it up here. The bottom uh weather strips. We usually pull the weather strips out. They'll usually just pop out and come down. on this house. The previous painters painted the weather strip and it doesn't look very good because it's half painted and I'm half not painted. So, we're actually just going to paint the weather strip to make it look better. We're going to close this door. We're going to leave it cracked just slightly so the paint will get around all the edges. The door jamb's actually been sanded and then it's been uh got two coats of peel bond on it cuz the door jam was in really bad shape with peeling paint. So, we put Peel Bond on it and cocked it. And then that will eventually be trimmed out with the white color. Um, I got the sprayer set up cuz I've been spraying the exterior. I just keep on my same tip. I'm I typically use a 617 or a 621 to spray the exterior. That same tip is going to still be on the gun with the long extension. I just stand back. I'm going to aim it to the inside. So, it's actually going to shoot and get inside the cracks. So, and then I want to make sure I gotten underneath the masking. So I'm going to pull the trigger down here so I'm not pulling the trigger in the middle of the door causing a spit. Come up and then I've got to get it to this side. So I'm going to shoot it from this angle and re release the trigger over there. Then I'm going to look all around the handle, make sure it's completely coated. Can come from the top down and then make sure it's completely coated on the edges and at the top. And the door looks completely coated. That's exactly how you spray a door jamb or a front door or a side

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