Refinishing a Simpson Full View Door

[glenn storey]

I'm not sure why you are masking the glass. Paint it, not worrying too much about accuracy, and then use a razor scraper to remove the paint from the glass. It's about 1000 times faster, and seals the glass to the wood as well, which is recommended by pretty much every door manufacturer.

 

[Vondawg]

I like your methods Cheese, having scraped countless windows and doors throughout the years that wouldn’t be my choice...I like your “paint and pull the tape”...Done!  over possible scratching of glass and/or loss of the seal of paint. After Toms comment, in another thread, on wetting  the edge of frog tape (maybe in this case with just a wet sponge)
That might seal even tighter....nice work as always and great save(and savings)

 

[Cheese]

I'm not sure why you are masking the glass. Paint it, not worrying too much about accuracy, and then use a razor scraper to remove the paint from the glass. It's about 1000 times faster, and seals the glass to the wood as well, which is recommended by pretty much every door manufacturer.

Well, having refinished windows in the past the way you described and receiving mixed results, I decided to actually read the instructions this time.  [big grin]

This is from the Marvin Window handbook. Skip down to the 3rd paragraph that starts with "Before finishing..."

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By using this method you avoid breaking the glass to paint interface and as [member=41086]Vondawg[/member] noted, you also avoid scratching the glass.

 

[glenn storey]

I've probably painted 1000 doors and windows and have yet to scratch the glass.