Garage Door Paint Stripping

Prepping the garage door ensures that paint will go on easily and hold up well.

Garage door paint stripping.

Contact an environmental agency for proper paint removal and disposal for health safety purposes. It s best to begin sanding only after you ve stripped both sides of the door as well as the edges. Apply paint thinner to the painted area with a paint brush. Make sweeping motions with the nozzle and stop periodically to check the progress.

Excessive moisture compels paint on exterior wood to peel while blistering paint is a result of extreme temperatures. 2 sand the areas with medium grade sandpaper where the paint has been removed to lightly. You can use either oil or latex based paints f. It also took far less coats of stripper than the previous door.

Scrape all the chipped bubbled and peeling paint off the steel garage door with a rigid metal putty knife. If you want to. The chemicals even the less toxic citristrip can be harmful to your skin or eyes work in a well ventilated area or you may choose to wear a respirator especially when using the mineral spirits. After removing all the paint thoroughly sand the door before refinishing it.

Pressure wash the area on a setting of 80 psi. In this video i show you step by step how to easily and quickly paint a garage door with professional results. The previous door that i had stripped without using the plastic wrap only stripper and scraper was pretty damaged. This works particularly well on spray paint.

Exposure to rain wind and sunlight causes paint on wooden garage doors to eventually require removal.