Restore a Weather-Beaten Exterior Door Jamb Like New! | Ekasand + Rustoleum Triple Thick Primer

All right. Today I'm going to be showing you a door jam right here. We got a door jam on a new construction house that went through the winter time. The door jam, brick mold comes out, you know, pre- primed. Yet, uh, you know, during the winter time, there was no gutters on. We had water splashing up, snow splashing on it. It caused the primer to peel. And now we're down to bare wood. And I'm going to show you how I go about, you know, resolving this situation. When this door jamb first came out and it was installed, I already cked it and I spackled all the holes. So, the spackle and caulking is all dry. So, now just going to give you a look of um I'm stumbling over everything here. So, I'm going to give you a look of what it looks like to actually prepare this properly and make it look uh brand new like it didn't actually have all this problem. One of the the primer I use, my go-to primer typically on exteriors for all kinds of things, you know, especially when you got bare wood or blistered siding, um, a lot of different scenarios. Uh, peeling paint. I use uh Zenzer triple thick primer. So, the triple thick primer is going to go I'm going to brush on a coat on all this stuff. Wherever there's any type of peeling, it's going to prime the bare wood. It's also going to feather out wherever we have uh paint. And then primer. I'm going to put, you know, a coat of primer on there. If it looks pretty good, you know, uh, after it dries, I'll just lightly sand it. And then I'm going to brush, hand brush and roll this door jamb. It should look brand new. I'm going to be masking off using a masker. I don't want to get any paint on the concrete. I'm using Frog Tape, 2-in tape. Then I'll be masking off the metal portion of the door jamb. Also frog tape, advanced frog tape. Right here is what I got on my tough gaff. Um, I'll be brushing, you know, with my uh Premier Riverdale and priming uh with uh also a Chinx filament brush also. So, I'm sanding using a 3x4 sander right here with a um coarse grit sanding sponge. I also have a flat flat abrasive that I'm going to be using if I need to uh which is Echostorm and 80 grit Echotorm. So, I'm going to show you what it looks like. We're going to um make this thing look brand new. So, here we go. [Music] So anywhere where there was spackle, I'm trying to find the spackle spots. Sand that spackle. Down low is where all the water damage is. [Music] So, I'm going to switch off my flat abrasive. I'm going to switch over to a um 1/2 inch foam abrasive to get the contoured and routed edges. [Laughter] [Music] All right. So, I got that all sanded. Now, I'm just going to dust this off. I'm going to remove my weather strips. They just come right out. Now I'm going to begin the priming process. Get this all dusted off. Got one little spot I need to coaul right here. I'm going to get some big stretch coaul that um touch up. Caulk that. I'm going to get my masking down. Got a mask with Frog Tape so I don't get any bleeding underneath. So, Frog Tape Advanced right here. Um, is stronger adhesive on it than regular Frog Tape green. So, how to mask in the wind. I got videos on how to mask in the wind. So, I want to get masking across this door jam. It's awesome trying to mask in the wind, I tell you. Love this wind. [Music] So, just mask out, you know, as far as you're comfortable in the wind. If you drip any paint, the wind's going to blow it. So, triple thick is a a highresin primer. Can be used for all different kinds of things. Um, great primer to solve all kinds of problems. Exterior painting. I use it on just about every single exterior I do paint, you know, these days. Use it on a lot of composite siding that has blisters on it. It'll fill the blisters, seal the blisters. I use it on bare wood, high resin. It'll go on bare wood. It's tinted white. So, I like it cuz you can see once it dries uh where it goes. There's other products similar to it that are not white, they're clear. So once they dry, you cannot tell where you've actually gone with your primer. So triple thick dries white. So I really like that. So I'm not going to pull it out of the bucket. I'm just going to pour some in my bucket here. You can see how thick it is. So, they call it triple thick for a reason. So, look how thick this stuff is. Look at that. Doesn't even hardly run off the brush. Start brushing this on there. So, I like to my uh primer, triple thick primer, wherever I put it, I like to brush it on. So, you can brush it, you can spray it, you can roll it, but I always like to brush it. If you spray it, you definitely got to have a tip thick enough to spray it. That's for sure. So, I showed you, it's so dang thick. It's got primer on it, so I don't need to prime all of it. Anything that's exposed bare wood that's peeling, I want to get a coat on it. And it's going to where you see there's bare wood and then primer. Triple thick will help feather that out so you won't see that. It's a cool day, so it's not going to dry too fast. So, I got time. It like if it's really hot, you got to move pretty quick. I want to be careful in this wind that I don't get any on that um door. Door's freshly painted, you know, down here. I'll just put, you know, some on this whole door jamb down low because it's what gets the weather. So, might as well since I'm priming, I've got to wait for this all to dry to sand it. I'll just prime all of it. I like to once again brush it because I like it's really thick. So, it's going to either leave brush strokes or stipple marks. And you know, a hand brushed door jam looks really nice versus it all stippled from a roller. And usually when I've got peeling a peeling door jamb like this, I'll usually lightly sand it with a sponge and then put one more coat on. So I'm going to go I've got other things to paint. though today. So, I'm getting this primed, giving it time to dry. And I'll cover my bucket up with a wet rag so it doesn't dry out. Now, just check your layout. Make sure it's all nice and laid out. Looks good. And that's already starting to dry even in these cool temps. So I'm going to cover up my bucket. Comb back, lightly sand it, give it another coat. All right. So my primer is dry now. So I'm just going to, you know, light light just rub my hand over it if I need to. If I feel anything rough, like if it raised the grain anywhere, made the wood, bare wood, feel fuzzy at all, then you know, you just hit it lightly with your sanding sponge. So, just going to rub my hand over it and feel it. It feels just slightly rough. And you don't have to get overly aggressive. if I don't want to sand my primer off, but a lot of times it'll like you'll raise the grain on the wood, make it kind of feel fuzzy and rough. But that all feels pretty good cuz I sanded it, you know, really good. Now I'm going to do my second coat of primer. And I don't need to do a second coat over where it's primed. Just where it was raw wood. And it'll help even feather the uh bare wood to painted surface, you know, even better. So, so it's one of the things that this product does is it helps feather out those edges. All right. Now, my primer, everything is dry. If you need to sand it, you know, you would want to do your sanding one more time with your with your sponge, like a silk sponge. And now I'm going to put on two coats of paint. So I'm going to roll a coat of paint and then I'm going to back brush it. So I'm just going to get the paint on really fast. Got to work quick. The air is so dry today. So, you definitely want to put a heavy coat of paint. this paint. Um, I'm using Sherwim's Latitude today and it dries like so fast. Putting a heavy coat of paint makes it so it dries slower. You can put latex extender XIM latex extender in your paint. It'll slow the dry time, help the paint level out better, too. So, we'll let that dry and we'll come back and put on second coat, which is going to look identical to the first coat, how I applied it. You'll see the end result, how that peeling paint just disappears. [Music]