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Final Inspection and Handle Masking

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What happens here

After masking the concrete, fully lower the garage door. Again, you may need to hold down the opener button if the sensors are obstructed. Once the door is fully closed, walk across the entire surface to verify that all areas intended for painting are exposed and everything else is protected. Pay close attention to the garage door handle, and mask it off if it's not meant to be painted. The speaker notes that overspray onto the car inside is unlikely due to weather strips, the door's J-figure overlap, and its insulated nature. Also, traditionally, the areas behind the weather strips on the sides of the garage door are not painted to avoid paint adhesion issues that could damage the opener mechanism.

Goal: Ensure full protection and prepare for painting.

Tools and materials

  • Masking Tape FrogTapeMasking the garage door handle

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I'm going to tack it down few places in the middle now I'm just about ready to lower the garage door down so some people may be uncomfortable with just two rows of paper you know overspray wise if you're if you're sprayer pressure is set properly if you got a tip on the proper tip you're not going to get over spray out farther than this you could drop a drop cloth but I've been doing this for 20 some years this way I've never got over spray you know out Beyond two rows of paper it's never left a line now I'm going to lower my garage door down all right you can see right there the sensors sense the paper so I want to hold the garage door button down so it's not overriding it by holding the button down so I'm just gonna release the garage door thank you there's a handle on the garage door there's a hand on the garage door we're going to want to mask that handle since we power washed it I'm gonna check my door make sure there's nothing stuck on it now I'm gonna get ready to spray it here now some people may question you know there's a car behind here is over spray gonna go you know through there and get on the car and it's not going to there's a couple reasons why there's weather strips in between these garage doors and then it kind of has a j figure to it where when they overlap something nothing will go right through it it's an insulated garage door so no paint over spray is going to go through it some people might question you know what about the sides of the garage door behind you know weather strips we typically do not paint behind the weather strips you can see it's never been painted before because the weather strips and the heat will tack to the paint and it could damage the garage door opener when opening the garage door if the paint um tacks to the weather strip and I know that from experience because it's happened to me before with a customer so um you can pay behind it if you feel confident it's not going to stick I'm just not confident it's going to stick the garage door um heal occasionally there's some movement in it and if there's a big color difference you might see a line and you can go touch that up you know if it ever customer ever calls you about it now the

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