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Raise Door and Remove Masking

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After the paint is applied, immediately raise the garage door up to about halfway. This prevents the freshly applied paint from 'tacking' (sticking) to the weather stripping around the door frame. If the paint is allowed to dry while the door is closed and touching the weather stripping, it can glue the door to the frame. When you then try to open the door, it could rip out the weather stripping or even damage the garage door opener mechanism. After raising it halfway, carefully remove all the masking paper and tape from the bottom concrete surface and the upper weather stripping.

Goal: Prevent paint from sticking to weather strips and prepare for trim work.

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um up it doesn't tail so now the garage door is sprayed and you know a little quick tip if you don't raise the garage door right now you good kid you could get paint tacking from the weather strip to the door and when it go when you go to raise the door I've had it happen this is experience it glues itself to the weather strip and I've ripped out the garage door um open or out of the door before so if you let it dry down you'd want to take like a two inch knife or something like this and run it through and either cut it and make sure it's not bridging or you raise it up right now I like to raise it up right now about halfway and kind of that way um you know we don't have wind coming down and blowing debris on the bottom of the door while it's wet and stuff it's a nice cool day or not cool but it's a hot day and but not windy so it's sprayed now I'm going to raise it up after I raise it up I like to remove the masking down here so it doesn't hack to the bottom or bridge to the bottom so I'm just going to pull this off just like that so now the garage door is sprayed I'll let it dry raise it all the way up and then we'll hand do our trim we'll leave the masking down here so we have masking to hand you our trim new

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