Stripping Garage Door Paint

Bottom to top starting with the inner panels and working outward to the.

Stripping garage door paint.

Sometimes you need to strip paint. Avoid using a torch. In this video i show you step by step how to easily and quickly paint a garage door with professional results. It s been hard slog i must say until i recalled this handy hint on how to strip paint.

You can use either oil or latex based paints f. Before painting a garage door clean it with a sponge and soapy water and dry it with a towel. Apply a quality exterior paint to the door using the same method as described for priming. Here s how it works.

Removing garage floor paint is the recommended option if the paint is old chipping and flaking in these cases the old paint is too damaged to be used as a base coat for a new coat. Simply using improper painting techniques can cause paint to appear scaly and unattractive. Exposure to rain wind and sunlight causes paint on wooden garage doors to eventually require removal. If you want to avoid stripping lead paint from a door with chemicals a safe way to do it is to heat the paint with an infrared heat pad.

Paint the garage door. Once it s dry use a brush to paint smaller areas corners and edges. You can scorch the wood or start a fire. Then tape off any areas you don t want the paint to touch like the edge of the house.

There are several options of stripping off your garage floor paint and some are simpler and less hazardous than others. I ve been stripping two old doors from my childhood home. The house was built in the 1920s so there was about 85 years of paint and varnish on them.