Best Way to Paint Exterior Door Jambs/Remove That Weather Stripping!

No ifs, ands, or to buts. Let's look at this again. You'll see what I mean. Especially if you're painting the exterior. Like if you're painting the exterior, there's no way you're going to get up in there perfectly. I don't care what kind of painter you are. There's just absolutely no way. But can you see after the trim is off, after this weather stripping is off, you can paint this green from here over nice and easy. And you can paint the, you see, there's no way if you're just painting the inside, painting this white, there's no way you're going to hit that. Or not hit that, you know. And speaking of painting, if you're painting, they're going to paint the inside of this garage. Which means they said they're going to paint the inside of this. Well that also means the edge of the door, the side edge, just to just to the exterior side. Here's the exterior. Don't forget to paint this edge, okay. This is part of the door as well as, look on the side, okay. Now that's, they painted green, okay. So they're not going to hit that. But they are, when they paint this, let's look at this some more. When they paint this on the inside, they're going to paint this side of the door and this edge, okay. Then even with this door closed, they're going to paint this door casing. And they're not only going to paint that, they're going to go all the way over. Because this is still white on the inside, you see. From here over to there is white. That's why you're taking this trim off, this rubber gasket, okay. That's your weather stripping. I like how that works because it just pushes against there. You see how it kind of folds. It's kind of like a V. So when that's notched in there, there's a V there. And then the door pushes on there. There's a little bit of give there. But that's how it seals, okay. Then I'll take these strike plates off too before they paint. Let's see. You do that. And I spent less than five minutes taking that one off to that garage on this garage door, okay. Because they're painting the inside of this and the outside of it. I just don't want the painters to hit it. And I'll show you what they've already done to one. I'm going to watch the last little bit of this. But on some interior doors, I told him to pull it off. Oh, he was afraid he was going to rip it, he said. Let's get you set up outside. How about that? Get you set up outside. I got just a little thin one. Let's see. I got a crummy flat one. See, that one doesn't have a, that one's got so much flex. It's a little bit harder to do it with this one. Oh, wow. Because it's so flexible. And so I'm going to use my stiff one. See how flexible this one is. See this one here. There's hardly any flex because look how thick it is. Look how thin that edge is. That's why that one's, and that one's a good one for certain things. You're going to use your thin one. It might be a little bit trickier, see? But you can, you can still do it. Let's see if you got a flat screwdriver. That's going to be, that's going to take you a little bit longer. I can see. So I'm just going to use my flat, my stiff one right here. See, look at this one. The bottom of it was all smashed. It got wedged in the door somehow. And I might be able to, to get it back into place once I have it reinstalled. But you know, if I can't, I could go to the store and buy another one of these. They come, I don't know how long. This is, this is a eight foot tall door. So they come at least eight foot tall. You can buy them at, at a hardware stores. Then you can buy pieces of this. If I wanted to, I could cut, I could cut one little piece off, you know, foot and a half and put a, put one piece down, chop it off with my, with my snips, you know, my 10 snips. These things are almost as old as I am. Look how rusty they are, they still cut. Wisp baby. Oh, you know what? These say Sears. I don't even know if Sears sells them anymore. They used to, they used to sell these to where if they got dull, you could, you could take them back and Sears would give you a new pair. They still do that. I think with, with tape measures, with craftsman tape measures, but I don't think for 10 snips anymore, too bad. Oh, I got paint all over my, my video camera. I'll have to wipe it off. Cause I've been in there watching the paint and stuff. Okay. So now I'm just going to take, I'm going to take this side off and that's just kind of rolls over like that. Take the rest off left-handed, but let's see if I can do it left-handed so I don't have to move the camera. Is that taller? Okay. So that's the right side. And so just for kicks, because I can, I know what side is on the right. This one's right and the other one's left. I'm just going to take some tape here. You don't have to do this part, but I do. I'm just going to put right, not tape it too much together. So I can, that way I can see what I've just done. As I pull it apart later left and I can write side door. Cause see, I've done three of these I want to make sure I remember which one goes where the other one I wrote main door, you know, for garage door. I'm just going to pull out enough here. And I'm just going to tape a piece down here. Okay. Done. Now I'm going to take that. Oh, it's lunchtime for the painters. And look at that. They brought their own microwave to heat up their stuff. Nice idea. Okay. So I'm going to take these over into the other garage where I'm storing everything else. And that's where I'm going to put them. Okay. And when they get all done painting, I'll put those back in. That's all I got for this time, but I'll be back with more videos.