Applying a Second Base Paint Coat to Refinish a Door Jamb

Video Transcript

"In this segment, we're covering the "Final Base Coat of Our Door Jamb Part 2", which just consists of finishing off the main portion of the jambs with the rollers. And as our previous painting steps, we just follow the same procedure basically and we want to pay a little bit more attention to the detail and make sure we have a good, even coverage on everything. Once again thin, we're going to--good, smooth surface, so we'll keep a nice, thin coat and just go around and make sure you get everything. If you see a little glob or something sticking out there, go ahead and get it--this is wet. Then go ahead and finish rolling it out, taking your time. Once you get all the paint applied, you can take a few quick minutes, set your brushes and rollers aside and go ahead and pull up your paper and tape while the paint on it is still a little bit wet, and that will prevent it from drying to your wet door jamb. Look your area over and make sure you don't have any other spills or anything of that--contaminants from the work that you've done in your job environment. You want to get everything up as quickly as possible. It prevents it from getting dragged around the work environment or ground into the carpet or--it's just anything left lying around is just a problem waiting to happen. So, the sooner you get that stuff cleaned up, the less potential you have for it to turn into a problem for you. Now that it's painted, we're going to need to let it dry again. This is going to get about 12 hours of drying time, at least a minimum of 8, that's just the next time that we'll be back to the job to pursue it further. And then we'll give it a good thorough inspection and make sure there isn't any flaws or anything that we missed and hopefully, get the doors installed, and it'll be a completed project. But at this point, we've pretty much concluded our painting and finishing of it. Please watch our next segment on "Conclusion of Our Door Jamb Restoration Project"."