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Palum

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when i moved and gave my doors a new layer, i also had 6panels and was annoyed and i wanted to make use of my spray gun so i bought these
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it worked well, just lay down a tarp on floor in the middle of the room, and i just unscrewed the doors and attached and sprayed

Hand painting all my trim for a consistent finish (and easy to touch up). Not spraying these on purpose, otherwise I would build a paint booth to do all these.
 

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Or if you're a real baller, you put in the screws off center so the door pivots on the sawhorse.

After I finish my current run of cabinets I'm going to build custom doors for my bedrooms and bathrooms. Current doors are hollow core. Kids want dog doors in them and everyone wants a little sonic privacy.

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That's actually really smart. And I likely will use this method in the future. Why does it take so long to learn things?
 

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Or if you're a real baller, you put in the screws off center so the door pivots on the sawhorse.

After I finish my current run of cabinets I'm going to build custom doors for my bedrooms and bathrooms. Current doors are hollow core. Kids want dog doors in them and everyone wants a little sonic privacy.
Dumb question: don't you want to paint all surfaces of the door (including this bottom) to seal them and prevent them swelling a bit from humidity in the summer? I've never had to do doors, this was just some possible bullshit tidbit someone told me a long time ago. Would think this screw method would be counterproductive if true.
 

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Dumb question: don't you want to paint all surfaces of the door (including this bottom) to seal them and prevent them swelling a bit from humidity in the summer? I've never had to do doors, this was just some possible bullshit tidbit someone told me a long time ago. Would think this screw method would be counterproductive if true.
With that screw method you could still easily paint the ends as well. Then two dots of white caulking for the screw holes on each end when you were done.
 
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Palum

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Or if you're a real baller, you put in the screws off center so the door pivots on the sawhorse.

After I finish my current run of cabinets I'm going to build custom doors for my bedrooms and bathrooms. Current doors are hollow core. Kids want dog doors in them and everyone wants a little sonic privacy.
Will have to see if this is worth it. Admittedly with solid core I'd have to use longer screws.

Though I was going to have to put padding down under it on the saw horse anyway. Which I suppose does raise a question about cure time since urethane takes a while.
 
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Dumb question: don't you want to paint all surfaces of the door (including this bottom) to seal them and prevent them swelling a bit from humidity in the summer? I've never had to do doors, this was just some possible bullshit tidbit someone told me a long time ago. Would think this screw method would be counterproductive if true.

No finish is truly impervious against water, even paint or epoxy. You'll still get seasonal swelling, just faster or slower depending on what you use.
 
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