How to Paint the Doors

Painting your house all colourful and cheerful is every person's dream. Though it may sound like a child's play, it is not that simple job of taking the brush in your hand and rubbing it against the wall. Painting demand certain technique and skill to reach the edges and corners of your house and make it look everywhere unanimously bright and plain. Painting the interior and exterior of the house requires the right focus and eye. Similarly painting the door may sound an easy job, but to get your job done precisely you have to know a few tactics.

Painting your house or painting the door demands the following equipments

Painting is solely about paintbrushes. Apart from that you need a lot of other things that incorporate masking tape, paint tapes, body compounds, primer paints, paint trays, paints, putty, putty knives, sandpaper, screw driver sets, primers and ladders.

Tips showing you how to paint doors

Prior to painting the door, avoid touching it with unclean hands. If the door is left at an unfinished stage then deter any sort of chemicals, oils and greases that come in contact to it. But before you apply any primer or paint on the door, make sure that you trim out all the hardware holes, ends of exterior jambs and sills. But do make all the necessary trimming to get a plain surface on which you can apply the paint.

The room that you choose to paint the door should be spacious, well-lit, dust free and sheltered. Your next step should be to position the door conveniently so that you can paint the door easily without any hindrance. You may face it down on sawhorse or place it vertically by leaning its top inward against a wall. But all through make sure that the door is firmly placed so that it does not get tipped over. The bottom should be a little elevated from the ground so that you may not face any problem while painting the bottom surface.

After you apply the first coat on the door, use a sandpaper to scuff out the slightly rough exterior you find on the door. Then, you can use the second coating of paint on the door and let it dry. After you are done, carefully inspect whether the painting has been successfully done and there is no space for unpainted portion. Mount the door and install it with screws at its own place.

How to paint different types of doors?

Painting panel doors can be easy if you follow a few orderly steps. First you paint the panel and then the door edges. Then, the middle stile and the outer stile chronologically. Again mullioned doors can be a tedious job, especially if you are an inexperienced painter. The tricky way to paint is to paint from inside out. Make sure that the doors are not coloured unlikely each side. So when you are facing the outside of the door and if it is red in colour, then the edge that faces you should also be red, which will signify that the other side of the door if also red.

So, when painting your house, you have take minute care of the details of painting like when painting the door or window. Since they are small in area, so you have to concentrate on a small span of area when painting and for this you need to be more careful and open-eyed.