0:46Fiberglass that reads as wood
Dan Ross on a textured fiberglass door stained with a gel stain and streaked so it reads as wood, then clear-sealed, on composite jambs and sills that won't rot.
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How Bruce matches a stain
Dan Ross on how Bruce, the D.W. Ross door technician, matches a stain to a customer's sample by mixing and layering stains on a fiberglass door.
Dan Ross, D.W. Ross Company. 0:56.
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That's our door technician, Bruce.
He'll have people come in, like this guy had showed us that idea of what color he wanted, and then he matched that stain to that door. We'll have people bring in sometimes a piece of furniture, a drawer front, and they want to duplicate that color, and Bruce can usually achieve that by mixing some stains or layering a color on top of another color. You have to keep in mind that because this is a fiberglass door, those stains don't soak in like it does a piece of wood. They sit on the surface, you know, so he has to let that dry, and then he can put another coat, darken it. He can change some of the colors and kind of give them what they want.
I always try to tell people, be realistic, that it's not a piece of wood. You know, we'll make it look like a piece of wood.
Most of the people, you know, when they see that are just like, wow, you know, that looks great.
Dan Ross, Vice President, D.W. Ross Company
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