Saturday, October 27, 2012

Fishers exterior metal door

Ryan and I finished both sides of a recently mounted metal door. We also painted the window lite, the frame around the door inside and outside, and we also painted a few feet of baseboard inside.

This turned out to be a real challenge for us. We have never done spray painted both sides of the door (outside color "wild current" and inside "pure white") and we tried to do the same day.  In the future, if we have to do both sides, we will probably just foam roll the door. Spray painting gives you a glassier look (but takes longer to dry), but it is an inconvenience for the customer to have to pull the door twice.  We had an issue with flies dropping onto our paint job and when we painted the inside of the door, we had to keep it vertical and we got a few sags.  The next day, we had to sand the door with 220 grade sand paper to get rid of the sags and fly tracks. We then put a second coat on with a foam roller. It still looked great when we were done.

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