Staining Wood Panel Doors
Staining the door dip a staining pad in wood stain and let the excess drip back into the bucket or stain tray.
Staining wood panel doors. Apply the stain on one face of the door in long even strokes working with the grain of the wood. How to stain and finish a door finishing expert teri masaschi shows us how to properly sand and finish two untreated interior doors. Some people think a gel stain is appropriate for smaller areas while others prefer poly stains for their versatility. Roll the stain on and follow up with a brush in the direction of the wood grain this will even out the stain and work it into the wood.
We re using a wipe on oil finish as the sealer. Model sip0000008771 329 99. Apply stain to the top side of the door with even wiping motions that follow the wood. Use a foam roller and work our of a roller pan.
6 panel right hand unfinished red oak wood prehung interior door with nickel hinges 2 model sip0000008924. The key is to apply a thin base coat to partially seal the wood before wood staining. 6 panel left hand unfinished pine wood single prehung interior door with nickel hinges. Steves sons 30 in.
Steves sons 36 in. Tools and materials use. Corner damage is the worst kind of damage that can happen to exterior wood doors. Allow the stain to dry see label and proceed to varnish or polyurethane.
With the door resting on padded sawhorses use a random orbit sander with 80 grit paper to quickly remove what remains of the old varnish and sun baked flakes of wood. Use a stain brush for liquid stain and a soft cotton cloth for gel stain. Sanding sealers dewaxed shellac and wipe on finishes will all do the trick. Avoid overlapping vertical strokes try to blend any starting and stopping points if you have to use two passes to stain the entire length of the door.
On interior doors you must use interior stain and varnish. Precise joinery and painstaking sanding of wood that is hand selected for color and grain combine to create architecturally correct doors fit for the finest homes. Most stain manufacturers make prestain conditioners but you ll get better results with the method we show here. It has gorgeous grains and came nearly ding free.
Always use a good quality stain with a petroleum base such as minwax craftsman mixing the stain according to the manufacturer s directions. Sand the wood again with 100 grit paper then 120 grit. This new wood door was stain grade fir meaning it was milled accurately and with finer wood requiring very little sanding before stain is applied.