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PeterE:
You are doing a great job with that door Ross.  :clap:

Then when it comes to painting and getting paint brush bristels all over the surface, I was given an advice some years ago by a friend who is a painter by trade. He said;

"Any new paint brush will leave loose bristles in the beginning, no matter how expensive it was. The trick is to get the loose ones out before starting to paint. He was always washing his brushes with luke warm water and green soap before use and after drying them, "painting" dry over a fairly rough sand paper. "

The idea is to clean out any production residues and then to pull out those bristles that did not set in the glue.

Nowadays when most paint is water based, this can be done right before starting to panit, but if the paint is oil-based is is best to leave the brush to dry before painting to avoid water marks in the paint.

After having practiced this, I get far less bristles in the paint surface.

Hope this was useful, if you knew it before, please ignore.

BR

/Peter

Pete W.:

--- Quote from: PeterE on November 16, 2013, 04:47:20 AM ---You are doing a great job with that door Ross.  :clap:

SNIP

Nowadays when most paint is water based, this can be done right before starting to panit, but if the paint is oil-based is is best to leave the brush to dry before painting to avoid water marks in the paint.

SNIP

BR

/Peter

--- End quote ---

I think I've mentioned this in other threads but I guess it's worth repeating - one way to quickly dry a wet paintbrush is to rinse it in methylated spirits (non-drinkable alcohol).  When the alcohol evaporates, it takes the water with it.

RossJarvis:
Thanks for the tips Petes :thumb up:

I'd not heard either of those so it was new.  Far fewer bristles were left to come out on the second undercoat and I think I got to them before they became part of the door.  The earlier ones appear to have vanished into the door now so when the gloss goes on hopefully everything'll be fine.  The second coat has gone on lovely actually.  Didn't take the camera but I'll probably bore you with a piccie of that later.  Pete W, undrinkable alcohol is a useful but ultimately unsatisfying substance, I prefer the other sort for all sorts of uses and reasons, drinking being the main one :beer: :beer: :beer:.

RossJarvis:
BBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!  Absolutely freezing, after three days of hanging around in unheated out-buildings and the great outdoors.  Knackered as well as I seem to somehow have got involved in shovelling about 3 ton of sand into bags.  Meanwhile, back at the door.  A second undercoat was applied and then the gloss coat, which after two days is still fragile and pretty wet in a few areas where the drips developed.  I was pretty pleased with the finish, pretty even, hardly any sagging or dripping, but dust and mosquitoes were attracted, ho hum you can’t have everything.  Frame and door ready to go in;



frame in;



…….then time to apply the expanding foam, or as I now call it, the Devil’s Snot.  I did not get along well with this, possibly worsened by not seeing the note to use the can upside down, Doh!!  I wish I’d masked the whole of the frame for this, hey ho and then I stuck the door in the hole;



Generally looking good.  The door has a bit of a twist and no orientation of frame and door got it completely flush, however, with a bit of oak packing out the strap hinges it now closes on the latch and is reasonably flush, ish, particularly if you put your head on it’s side and squint, whilst looking the other way.  Here’s a view of the building with the door in;



…and here’s a view of the back of the door;



…and here’s a view of the back of the door after staining it, in an attempt to blend the new wood and bits of filler in;



I’m not sure how it’ll look when dried off, but it’s still “patchy”, I’m not quite sure how to blend these in any better.  I quite like the old and battered look of the inside and think it keeps a link to the past of an older building.  However as there is somewhat of a “committee” with an interest in the building there are other “good ideas” coming up, from painting it white, to sticking a window in, what do you think?

awemawson:
Looks very good Ross, despite your modesty you must be very pleased with it.  :thumbup:

Better get them to fix that running outlet on the guttering or all your hard work will be for nothing  :bugeye:

Andrew

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