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Painting gloss over dark varnished front door

  • 11-08-2015 11:20pm
    #1
    brophs
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    Hi,

    Hoping for a bit of advice. We're painting the entire house and I'm nearly at the end, which means doing the front door. It's a standard wooden door which has been varnished in a very dark brown colour. My g/f wants to switch to Killala Bay, a blue colour in the Dulux range (http://www.weathershield.ie/colours/rm_colours.jsp).

    I'm wondering how much prep I have to do on the door before painting. I know that I have to use a couple of coats of good primer and then a couple of the gloss but in terms of creating a key for the primer, how far back to I sand the door? Am I looking to just dull it or do I have to bring it back somewhere close to the base wood? What sort of grade sandpaper should I be using? 160 ish or even more coarse than that? I presume I then give it a light sand between each coat to smooth it out?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    irelandspurs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭irelandspurs


    If it was me I'd get a litre of Zinsser coverstain mixed up into a mid grey or even as close as they can to the top coat colour, give it a clean down and a light sand. Coat it up and its recoatable in 2 hours, it's a great adhesion primer.
    It's a bit thick so put a tiny drop of spirit in it to help free it up. Then you could either give it another coverstain or 2 glosses but give a light sand in between coats.


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