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When Painting Doors Should I Remove Hardware?

  
  
  

painting doorsPainting doors is not a glamorous job, but questions arise about whether or not you should remove the door hardware before painting. It all comes down to personal preference and whether you thing masking the hardware is faster than removing it.

I would not recommend removing the door off of the hinges. So the quick answer for the hinges is to either paint them or cover them with tape. Personally, I don’t like how painted hinges look, especially if you have attractive hinges.

If you are using a sprayer, you will need to either remove the door knob and latch or cover them with masking tape and paper. If you asked 100 painters which way they preferred, you would probably find that 50% of them would cover them, and 50% would remove them. If you choose to remove them, you will need to cover them or place them in a room not being painted as the dry fall might land on them and you will have some cleaning to do.

Using tape and paper to cover them is fine, but if you don’t completely cover the surface, you will be cleaning paint off of the unit. Using standard masking tape works fine, but it is sometimes difficult to remove and will often leave a residue behind. Painters tape is more expensive, but it removes easier and doesn’t leave behind a residue, which will lessen your clean-up time.

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