How To Stain Wood Panel Door
After the first light pressure wipes without adding more stain from can apply even pressure and wipe three to eight times with the grain.
How to stain wood panel door. Use a stain brush for liquid stain and a soft cotton cloth for gel stain. Apply stain to the top side of the door with even wiping motions that follow the wood. Allow the stain to dry see label and proceed to varnish or polyurethane. 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.
Sand the door again with 150 grit followed by 220 grit sandpaper. How to stain and finish a door finishing expert teri masaschi shows us how to properly sand and finish two untreated interior doors. Place a 150 grit sanding disc on the orbital sander. 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.
It has gorgeous grains and came nearly ding free. Change sanding discs often to avoid creating swirl marks on the door with the sander. 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. Apply two or more coats of spar varnish allowing each coat to dry.
Paint the stain onto the wood with the grain using a lint free cloth folded into a pad. Sand all of the flat areas of the door including the center portion of the raised panels. Reattach the hardware and rehang the door. Apply the stain on one face of the door in long even strokes working with the grain of the wood.
Paint stain and sanding grit can build up on the sanding disc. Tools and materials use. On interior doors you must use interior stain and varnish. Staining the door dip a staining pad in wood stain and let the excess drip back into the bucket or stain tray.
Use a foam roller and work our of a roller pan. The cost of the unfinished door was under 400 and special ordered from my local home improvement store.