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Hi, I’m Grady Johnson representing Expert Village.com. Now as we look at this door you
can see it needs a lot of work. First thing this is a really outdated handle so we are
going to change out this hardware. You can see it is all kind of old and ratty so we
are going to take off these screws right here and usually these things have a little hulk
and there is a teeny hole right here (I don’t even if you can pick it up on the video camera,
but right here there is a little hole. We are going to pop something in there and we
are going to pop that loose. Now when it comes to the hinges I change them out occasionally
but not when they look this good. This is a really nice set of hinges. What we are going
to do is pop this out right here. Going to put a screw driver under that and pop that
out. Now these buttons need to be forced all the way up if they are not. They are in pretty
good shape. Then we are going to clean all this up right in here with a little bit of
putty knife and wire brush and then we will prime all that up and sand it all down. I
do most of my work while the door is hanging in a remodeling job. I got to take this one
off because of this right here. You can see they tried to shave down the edge of this
one but they did not quite get up far enough so we get this all taken off I want to shave
it down a little more because you can notice here this is not quite closing like it is
supposed to. In addition, we are going to have to really clean this up. Now this is
just a matter of using a five-in-one tool or putty knife and scraping all the loose
paint both on the hinges and the door. Then we are going to sand all that down and get
it kind of smooth even though our primer is going to bring up a lot of the grain. Now
also on this particular door we are going to do both sides just because when this was
done before it was just kind of a face lift; they didn’t get down deep and clean this
up. So what I am going to do now is clean all of this up and then we are going to prime
both sides of the door. After that is primed and the primer dries it out, we will then
sand it a little bit more, get it nice and smooth and then we will do our caulking on
these little seams. We use a standard caulking gun and then go ahead and clean it up and
fill in all of these cracks.