Spray Painting Six Panel Doors

When painting wood doors make sure all six sides of your door are covered to protect it from rotting cracking and expansion.

Spray painting six panel doors.

Painting a door typically takes three to five hours depending on the condition of the door and how fussy you are. 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. Go back and check the face of your door for drips now before the paint cures.

How to spray doors. It would have taken me probably 5 6 straight work hours to paint all 7 doors by hand. Roll brush 2 coats of paint. Hi i am painting my bathroom trim and 6 panel.

Prep up to 1 hr per door remove mask hardware scrape and sand spot prime. Next paint the door panels. Painting tips and techniques spraying doors are shown and expl. If it was painted with oil based paint prime before using a latex based paint.

When you are done let the doors dry for 2 hours before flipping to paint the other side. Includes planning equipment and material acquisition area preparation and protection setup and cleanup. For a standard 6 panel door this is the order to go in. 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.

Start by painting the edges of the door with either the brush or roller. If the door was originally painted with latex paint priming should be unnecessary. Choose whether you need to prime the door before painting. 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.

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. Using a paint sprayer or airless sprayer for painting interior wood doors. Be on the lookout for drips or puddles of paint. 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.

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. Spraying the doors only required pockets of 10 15 minutes at a time and freed up a lot of time to do other things.