French Doors | Painting Guide

Painting French Doors can be overwhelming a first glance. With a plan of action and breaking things down we can own painting French Doors. Don't let this process intimidate you, keep moving forward, learning, and trying. You will get the results you want in no time I know it!
Pro Tip: Always carry a damp rag with you. If you happen to get paint on the glass you can always wrap the damp cloth around a butter knife or your 5 in 1 and take care of it before the paint sets up. A damp cloth is a painters best friend so don't sweat the mistakes because we all make them.
The Steps:
1)Survey the painting area and look for hazards or anything that might be in your way.
2)Sand the surface of the doors with a 120 grit sandpaper working the sandpaper in circular motions in a clockwise fashion around the perimeter of the door.
3)Get your duster brush and sweep all the dust and dirt out of all the nooks and crannies.
4)Start painting at the top left of the door starting with the inside lip that touches the glass. Work your away around the inside of this lip working clockwise around the whole door.
5)Cut around your hinges
6)Repeat this process on the other side of the door giving what you did a nice chance to set up for when you roll the face
7)Roll out the face of the door with your Whiz Roller again working your way from the top left of the door and working your way around in a clockwise motion.
8)Make sure you hit both back and front spines on the sides of the doors. Use light pressure when you are close to an edge so you don't get paint build up on the face.
9)Repeat Process for a second time doing the exact same thing you did for the first coat. Before you start your second coat lightly sand the face of your door. You will get a better finish this way.
10)Clean up glass after the paint has dried and work area.
What you will need:
-brush
-paint bucket
-whiz roller with sleeve
-Paint
-duster brush
-droppers to protect the floor
-5 in 1 or Screw Driver to get paint open
-sandpaper 120 grit
-knee protection

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[@LeeDoesStuff]

Good question and a common one that comes up a lot of job sites. In most houses I work on the top of the doors and the bottom edges are raw and you don’t see them. I focus on the faces of the doors if they are old or new and raw wood is apparent. In these situations sanding and a good oil primer is needed for durability of your paint job. Let’s say you have a grand staircase and you can see the top of a door as you walk down your staircase. This is a situation because you see it then priming is needed and paint. Most places don’t have this set up and you never see the tops of your doors. So I would say to make a long story short is if the faces are in good shape and primed then leave the top and bottom edges. Best of luck on your projects.

[@rwmusicstation9640]

I always use a quality brush purdy or Avanti when I'm cutting on a job like that. Oh by the way keep a rag with you.

[@douglaslippertindy]

Your videos are very helpful to me, as a DIY guy. In my home, built in 2016, all the interior doors (hollow core) have stenciling advising that the tops and bottoms must be primed…yet none of them are. In your reno work, how do you handle? Obviously priming the top edge is easy but priming the bottom edge would require removing the door.
How to you handle and should I make the rounds in my home to take care of this will all my doors? (We do not have issues with to door swelling in summer and shrinking in the winter.)
Thanks!

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