How to Paint Old Doors, Windows and Trim the Right Way!!! DIY House Renovation Episode 2

what's up guys my name is bart komar and welcome to our brand new diy dream home well it's not brand new it's dated from the 80s and we have golden oak covering everything the windows the doors the trim the stairs everything now for a lot of families that may be okay but for us white is the only way to go on trim and doors so in this video i'm going to show you exactly how to prep and paint your doors windows and trim to give your house that modern look that everybody's looking for welcome to the come our project all right guys welcome to our first official renovation project in the diy house before we moved in we decided to freshen up the entire upstairs that's the trim the doors and of course our beautiful 80s carpeting the painting process is actually fairly easy when you have the right paint and primer it's a prep work that takes some work and i'm going to share with you guys all the tips and tricks that i know in hopes that it will help you in one of your projects obviously the first thing that we need to do is actually remove the doors off of the frames and then label underneath them with a permanent marker and if you can get some help removing these doors it makes everything go much easier for the most part after getting my leg workout in the carpeting guys showed up and removed the original carpeting i'm always down to save historical parts of a home but 34 year old carpeting i could do without 1986. replace your carpeting people with an older home you never know what kind of issues you're gonna run into when you're doing a project like this and this was no different we found some water damage in the subfloor and luckily it only went that far so it wasn't that big of an issue i just replaced a couple of sheets and was ready to start prepping for the primer those are the issues you're going to run into when you're doing older houses you're going to have water damage you're going to have all sorts of other things and you have to account for that you have to plan for it because a 30 year old house is not going to be perfect so just keep that in mind plan for it and just take care of it [Music] after the structural inspection had passed we are finally ready to start prepping the old pine baseboards and casings for prime the first thing i like to do is spackle all the casing 45 connections all the nail holes and any imperfections that you might see you want to be as thorough as possible here and try not to miss anything with white paint all the little scratches that you typically don't notice that much with clear wood will stand out like a red skittle in a rice bowl next you want to sand the spackle off while scuffing the wood surface you can totally do this by hand but a sander makes quick work of it i like to hit all the flat areas with a sander first and then come back to all the rounded areas by hand so the rule of thumb when preparing wood for paint is that all of your outside corners get spackled and then all of your inside corners get caught and only a very light sanding is required more like scuffing than sanding when caulking you want to cut the tube at a 45 degree angle that way when you actually applying it to your work surface it pushes the caulk into the gap that you're trying to cover also mark on the tube with a marker at the tip that way you can quickly reference where it is on the surface that you're caulking i think we're ready to start spraying but the most important part before you start any paint job put on your paint clothes everybody should have a pair that's ripped up got paint all over it kind of like you get an abercrombie and fish let's do it i'm gonna be using a sprayer on all the trim just to cut down on time but you can totally use a roller or a brush in this case it's the primer and the paint that make the difference and not the tool that you're using it with and always my primer of choice is sensor spin primer which i found has the best stain coverage and holding power on wood i highly recommend this primer and this is not sponsored but if you go with something else make sure you do your research this step will set the tone for the final outcome and you really want to get this part right because if you don't all that prep work that you just did is going to be for nothing i applied one even coat of the primer overlapping the spray patterns let it sit for 24 hours and was ready for paint i have a friend who's a professional painter and he recommended this acrylic latex from sherwin-williams from their pro classic line and i have used it on every single trim project since then it levels out great making it perfect for brushing or rolling but when you spray it it looks spectacular i applied two coats of the paint and then the next day i touched up a few areas with 220 grit sandpaper and applied one final very thin coat and the result came out way better than i could have hoped for the only thing left upstairs was color on the walls and the 18 inch roller made quick work of that all right guys i've been dreading this next part for the last couple weeks so i've been putting it off but it's time to start sanding all these doors get them painted and re-hung okay so it's time to address the painting of the doors and this process can be somewhat of a tedious one with all the profiles and moldings a door can have but i have a few tips and tricks for you guys that will hopefully make the whole process a little bit less painful the first thing i did with every door is to sand every flat surface the rails the styles and the panels with 120 grit sandpaper on an orbital sander and again you're not sanding the doors all the way to bare wood you're just scuffing that surface now what you're actually doing is creating grooves in the wood and that paint can actually grab in there and hold strong so that hopefully it won't peel over time after you have your flat surfaces scuffed up they should look something like this with a little white haste to them now it's time to start working on the molding profiles and this is the tedious part first thing i do is fold a piece of 120 grit sandpaper and place it on top groove moving it back and forth one time [Music] and you can see here you've gotten that groove and the top portion of the round over then i move to the lower group the one that connects to the panel i lay the sandpaper against the groove facing up on top of the round over and then move it back and forth one time then i can take the sandpaper and lay it down onto the panel and do the same thing again then you're left with just the finish in the middle of the round over which can be easily removed by folding the sandpaper over it and doing a couple passes now during this process i've tried a bunch of different tools to help me do it faster i tried a sanding stick which worked really well for corners a sanding wheel on a drill and that was okay on the round over but a little harder control and i even tried a liquid deglosser on the flat panels which i didn't see any difference now obviously results are going to vary from person to person but for me sanding was the way to go and i was even able to complete both sides of a door in 22 minutes which for me was worth the time saying is that a new prime solid core door can cost about 250 bucks [Music] all right that was pretty brutal two days of sanding but we got it all done next is probably the most important part when it comes to painting doors like this and no it's not more sanding caulking that's right caulking yeah you have to it and this is probably one of those steps that i see people miss all the time they probably just don't know about it or hope that that paint is gonna fill the cracks and they're gonna be good well over time that paint is gonna crack and it's gonna open up this seam so your best bet is to caulk it let's do it i cut a very small hole in the tube at 45 degrees and just like with the casing and baseboards i caulked all the seams in a panel door like this you're going to have the outside rails and the inside panel and what you're doing here is caulking the seam where they actually connect this way the flexible caulk will not only fill the gaps but also keep the paint from cracking during seasonal expansion and contraction so with the doors all prepped and ready for paint the family jumped in again to help me set up a makeshift paint booth in the shop it's pretty important to have a dust environment whenever you're painting because we just spent all this time getting these doors ready and the last thing you want is dust all over your hard work it can honestly make a grown man cry feels like a maze but it's gonna work perfectly that way i can spray all of them i can primer them i don't even have to flip them over or anything like that the next day i can spray as many coats as i want all at once and such a good idea [Music] i'm using the same primer as i did upstairs but this time i'm spraying it with hvlp sprayer and this can also be done by rolling it on but you just want to make sure that you get nice and even coverage good [Music] i gotta take you guys with me inside the kill room [Music] okay so we have primer on and this is a perfect opportunity to actually go through all of the doors and check for any imperfections that we might have missed so any holes that need to be re-caulked any sanding that needs to be done the sprayer did put out a little bit of an overspray so we're going to touch that stuff up with some 150 grit sandpaper and then we're going to be ready to paint again when touching stuff up on white doors i always go through each door and put a piece of blue tape on any of the imperfections that way i can actually see what i'm doing when it dries i sand everything with 120 grit sandpaper again remove the tape and vacuum everything nice and clean all right guys the doors are completely prepped and they're prying and it's finally time to paint them and painting well it's boring boring i'd rather cut my lawn than paint so let's make it a little bit fun let's do it boring painting at least this makes my day better apple juice apple juice [Music] you [Music] [Music] and that is it done uh tomorrow we're gonna be hanging these bad boys it's door hanging day and yeah that's right we got black hardware going on which is going to pop on these doors and look awesome so i got a couple tricks up my sleeve hanging these doors so let's do it when installing hinges on old doors the screw holes are usually pretty worn out so i will use a toothpick a match or in this case a stir stick and break it off in the old holes this gives the screw something better hold on to and secures the hinge a lot better there's a couple of ways of installing hinges or i should say installing the doors using a different hinging method the first is to mount the hinge to the door then balance the door on a couple of shims lining up the second flap of the hinge on the door frame then using a couple screws screw it in and your door should be good to go the other method and the one that i typically use is to mount the hinge to the door and then use a punch to knock out the pin of the hinge then take the loose part of the hinge and mount it to the door frame using the provided screws and now you're basically putting the hinge back together except now part of it is mounted on the door frame and the other one has a door on it so it takes a little bit of wiggle but once you get all the knuckles lined up you can just slide that pin right in and your door is hung finally it was time for some new door handles to make these doors pop i ordered these off of amazon and it took about three weeks for them to get here but once they went on to these doors everything just popped and made sense [Music] so there you go guys a little caulk some sanding a little paint and we have a dramatic change from where we started the entire process took a couple of weeks and it was so worth the effort because we are loving the way it turned out if you guys have any questions on this process or if you've done this before i would love to hear your insight or helpful tips in the comments section below there's a lot of people that are renovating their homes right now and any help would be appreciated let's start the conversation help each other out and if you guys are new to the channel don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell notification so you don't miss upcoming videos this is the first one in many renovations that we're going to be doing in this home i would love to have you guys along for the ride thank you so much for joining me on this experience i'll see you guys next time yep that just happened what do you need a handle for you stick a hammer in there like this and that's your handle those are the dummies for the dummies they look like what do non-dummy handles look like what do dummy handles look like well you're going to harvard you should know the difference of a handle no you

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Length: 17min 47sec (1067 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 23 2020