Spray Painting Six Panel Doors

I like to use a 1 1 2 brush to paint the recessed molding areas followed by a 4 roller for the flat surfaces in the middle.

Spray painting six panel doors.

Includes planning equipment and material acquisition area preparation and protection setup and cleanup. Using a paint sprayer or airless sprayer for painting interior wood doors. When you are done let the doors dry for 2 hours before flipping to paint the other side. Go back and check the face of your door for drips now before the paint cures.

Roll brush 2 coats of paint. Chris and i have painted a lot of six panel doors in our time we installed and painted 8 new doors at our first house and every door in our current house is a primed and unpainted six panel door in need of paint. For a standard 6 panel door this is the order to go in. Prep up to 1 hr per door remove mask hardware scrape and sand spot prime.

If it was painted with oil based paint prime before using a latex based paint. Next paint the door panels. If the door was originally painted with latex paint priming should be unnecessary. Painting tips and techniques spraying doors are shown and expl.

When painting wood doors make sure all six sides of your door are covered to protect it from rotting cracking and expansion. If that s the case brush them you can make those door look beautiful painting them with a broom im kidding but you get my point their are some good videos on you tube of painters brushing out 6 panel doors if they are real wood 6 panel doors it does take a skill to make them look beautiful. Spraying the doors only required pockets of 10 15 minutes at a time and freed up a lot of time to do other things. Let your door dry 30 minutes 1 hour then follow up with a second coat of paint.

But add in the drying time and it s a full day project. Door painting labor basic basic labor to paint door with favorable site conditions. How to spray doors. Choose whether you need to prime the door before painting.

Painting a door typically takes three to five hours depending on the condition of the door and how fussy you are. Highly recommend going this route if you have a bunch of doors to paint. In the process of painting all those doors i ve developed this easy method for how to paint a door without brush marks or streaks. It would have taken me probably 5 6 straight work hours to paint all 7 doors by hand.

Be on the lookout for drips or puddles of paint. So if you re painting a door you can t live without like a bathroom or exterior door start first thing in the morning so it can be back in service by day s end.