Staining Interior Doors
Aggressive sanding can remove the veneer and expose the panel beneath which will not absorb stain.
Staining interior doors. Prehung hollow core interior wood doors have a thin wood veneer over a laminated fiber panel. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Apply a coat on stain.
Apply the stain on one face of the door in long even strokes working with the grain of the wood. Today i am showing you the process i used to stain our 7 interior wood doors diy. Use a stain brush for liquid stain and a soft cotton cloth for gel stain.
Use a foam roller and work our of a roller pan. Demo provided by above beyond painting llc. Allow the stain to dry see label and proceed to varnish or polyurethane.
Showing how to stain and varnish an interior wood door with a paint and finish sprayer https goo gl lk899a. Once you ve learned how to stain a wood door you might want to stain or paint other doors around your home like cabinet doors in the bathroom drawer fronts kitchen cabinets or the garage door. 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.
My husband and i have enjoyed many many diy projects and want to start sh. In between each coat of poly we sanded with fine grit sandpaper i m using 600 here for the final coat of poly. 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.
We used rustoleum polyurethane in a satin interior. Once the stain was dry we applied top coat. It s a good thing the staining process was so simple because we had eight doors to do with two sides on each door.