There are two basic types of interior wood stains.
How to stain wood exterior doors.
It has gorgeous grains and came nearly ding free.
Most hardware can be removed by unscrewing a couple of philips head screws and should come off quite easily.
Stained exterior wood doors require frequent refinishing due to sun exposure dampness and inclement weather.
It is important to stain your wood exterior doors regularly not only to protect them from the damage weather can cause but also to keep your doors looking the best they can by making the wood darker and richer.
You can use either a penetrating stain or a heavy bodied wiping stain.
Wiping stains and penetrating stains.
What stain to use.
The cost of the unfinished door was under 400 and special ordered from my local home improvement store.
At the end of the re application my door was as good as new.
See interior wood stains below for comparisons of the two types of interior stain.
You can give your dry and sun bleached wood door a quick easy makeover in less than a day.
If you want to know how to restain a door i have a quick solution that ll work for most stained wood front doors.
How often you need to refinish the door depends upon the quality of the original stain.
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.
To avoid staining the door knobs knockers locks and other hardware it s important to unscrew everything that s connected to the door and remove it so you can stain the wood and only the wood.
The wiping stain is a highly pigmented stain that allows the wood finisher the.
This is a lot less work than staining the door originally so it wasn t too bad.
Staining a new wood door.
So i did a minor touch up by re sanding the door applying the stain where needed then applying new coats of varnish.