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first coat goes on and I'm like,

what did I do?

Well, luckily...

This is the first time she's saying this.

I didn't know about this. Luckily you guys, because it was a 10 year old door and I will say this if you guys want to lean into your

strength it being your entryway if you need to get a new door which Suzanne has expressed she's going to get a new door

so I'm giving you this advice too.

And all of you listeners, get a solid wood door.

When you have a really heavy entry door,

there's something about it.

And we have real estate friends too that will say the same thing

There's if you open a hollow core door it doesn't feel very heavy and you don't think the house is very expensive

Where if you open if you're showing this house or the homeowner you know

opens the front door and it's super heavy they're like this is a well-built

home they decide that right from the beginning so I do have a solid door. We did paint it, but because it was solid

wood, the sun beats on it, even though I have a covered porch, it's black and so it absorbed

the heat and there was cracks in it. So he had to spend, I'm not kidding, he spent a month because he was also painting the outside, but he was filling the door, he was sanding the door,

filling the door, sanding the door, priming the door, priming it, priming it, priming it, priming it, priming it, priming it,

using Bondo priming, priming, priming,

finally, he gets to a stage where he can paint it.

We have six coats of gloss paint.

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