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