Painting Tips for Refinishing a Door Jamb

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MARK BLOCKER: Hi. My name is Mark Blocker on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment, I'm going to show you some tips and tricks that I've picked up along the way through the years on painting. When you come down to the bottom of a door jamb, if you have adequate clearance, and a lot of times with carpet and such, they'll be the--the jambs we held up and the carpet is actually stuffed under, try and take a piece of paper and gently slide it back and forth and slide it underneath the molding. This isn't always possible. But as you can see on the outer portion there, it is. And this allows me to paint right down. Just go ahead, it doesn't matter if you get a little on the paper, and get right down to the bottom real evenly and smoothly and ensures I get a good even coat without any possibility of me touching down the floor down there and getting paint on the floor or the carpet. Now, if you just leave that paper there for it to dry, there's a good chance that paint on the paper is going to dry to the door jamb. When you try to remove it, it's going to rip and tear, leave an ugly jagged edge which causes you extra work to get that paper out of there and that edge cleaned back up again. So, after you painted it while it's still wet, remove it at that time. Prior to removing it, make sure that you've got that coat thin and even so you won't have any drips dripping down after you remove the paper. Another quick tip and this one here, we have very little clearance between the wall and the exterior of the door jamb. We can't get a paintbrush in there to get that side. We're going to lay a layer of blue tape down and I'm going to use a special type of roller that has a squared off edge, and then I can just easily roll it right up the backside of this door. Now, you'll notice I have very little clearance between there and the wall and another coat of tape down this side of the wall will prevent me from getting tape on the wall and that's how you--the tip on how you can get in and paint these backside corners that are very hard to access. Also, keep in mind they're also very hard to see, so they don't have to have the high quality evenness of the coat of paint on them that the front surface would have. And if you get a good application of paint on there, nobody's ever going to see it and it will look professional and you won't have any damage to your wall that you'll need to correct or go back and paint over later. So, please watch our next segment on "Primering the Door Part 2".

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