MILLBRAE — Painting your front door may seem like a simple task, but it can get surprisingly complicated. One complicating factor is the fact that you have to remain at home until the paint is completely dry, as you won’t have a functioning door to ensure security in your absence. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways to work around this issue.
Before painting your front door, you’ll typically remove the doorknob. You don’t have to do this—you could just brush around it, but you’ll have a difficult time achieving the appearance of a consistent, vertical brush stroke. The problem is that removing your doorknob brings a security concern, particularly if you need to leave your home at any point before the paint is dry. Fortunately, there’s an easy solution to this issue. After painting, use a hairdryer to target the area of the door where the knob goes. Within 20 minutes or so, it should be dry enough to re-install the knob.
However, even if your door has a functional lock, you’ll still have a security issue if you can’t close it. New paint takes a long time to fully dry—even when it’s dry to the touch, it can still have a stickiness to it, and if you close the door prematurely, the paint around the edges can get ruined. If you need to leave your house before your door is fully dry, use this simple trick: rub Vaseline® along the edges of the door frame and weather stripping. When you close the door, this will keep the paint from sticking to these areas.

How to Avoid Security Concerns When Painting Your Front Door

Discover expert tips to avoid security risks when painting your front door. Learn the best practices to keep your home safe during your next paint job.

How to Avoid Security Concerns When Painting Your Front Door by Dean Knecht

By Dean Knecht of {BR} Dean Knecht Painting, Inc.

Video: Helpful Hints for Painting Your Front Door


painting your front door may seem like a
simple task but the security risks
involved can complicate the process
today we're in Millbrae with diamond
certified expert contributor and Dean
connect of Dean connect painting to
learn more here's my tip of the day for
a homeowner when painting a front door
on your house back in the 50s and 60s
they had metal interlocking weather
systems and they've come a long way over
the years with the vinyl weather
stripping now but either case this
system still works when you paint your
front door you always need to have a
little bit of drying time and you know
paint usually dries in about two hours
the latex paints and you can touch it
and it's still what not wet so you
figure that it's okay to close the doors
but one of the biggest problems you have
is when you close your door right where
the inside is this puts a lot of
pressure at this end so what will happen
is latex paint stays very sticky even
though it's dried to touch and when to
close the door that forms an adhesion so
the net next morning you open the door
and you say why didn't my paint pull and
that's because it still wasn't cured all
the way through why it was closed
so to help remedy that problem everyone
probably has this nerve medicine cabin
and a bottle of Vaseline and what you do
is you grab the Vaseline take it out on
your finger and you rub it along the
whole edge of the weather stripping or
in case in the in the 50s and 60s the
metal interlocking system you rub it on
the wood so what that happens is
Vaseline forms a lubrication there so
when you close the door it will stop it
from adhering to the surface and it's
touchy
then it won't feel like that when you
open up in morning so that's my tip
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