That could be the issue.
Paint peeling off fiberglass door.
After peel stop plus.
Da01 jun 4 15 at 16 36.
However humidity also has a lot to do with it.
After waiting about four to six hours for the first coat to dry add a second coat and allow it to dry for at least a day before the door is used.
Use acrylic paint for metal doors.
Fiberglass doors are attractive.
Mm hmm and it peeled right off right.
It s a fiberglass door with some glass inside of it and around the glass there is a vinyl or plastic sort of material that s holding the glass in there.
This paint has a 4 week cure wow.
As long as you get all that old semi gloss paint off the door first and you have a rough surface to apply the new paint you should be fine.
As of now there is only one coat of paint on the door and it is peeling up.
Initially we thought we d have to scrape and sand and do a whole lot of prep work to fix up the trim.
We took the storm door off when we installed the door and replaced with a plain screen door so that s not the issue.
The type of paint you use is key.
Coat the door with your paint enamel next.
Paint peeling off fiberglass door.
Put on a dust mask and sand the entire door using a medium grit sanding block.
And yeah it s peeling off.
If you only need to paint one or two fiberglass doors.
I will be painting the exterior side and the interior side of the door.
If your fiberglass door s stain coat is flaking chipping or peeling off unevenly you ll have to remove the layer before applying a fresh stain coat.
Remove peeling paint from the door using a scraper.
It s best to paint inside in an air conditioned area.
This is the original fiberglass door that has been on the house from well before me owning it but probably after it was built in 1986.
It is made of metal steel not wood.
And i had to paint the door and i got some acrylic paint from a paint store.
A project brought on by somewhat less than 36 years of baking in the arizona sun.
However they do need staining or painting every three to five years.
I am going to repaint it and need to know the best way to do it.
Welcome to my experiment on stripping paint off a fiberglass front door.
Paint adheres well to drywall.
The paint is peeling off my front door.
But then we found rust oleum s zinsser peel stop plus high build binding primer with low vocs this water based binding primer is three times thicker than regular primers and locks down and hides peeling weathered surfaces to create a smooth white.
Acrylic or latex paint is also resistant to peeling for wood drywall and other surfaces.
We did paint both sides.
The inside is a different paint but does seem a bit harder than the exterior paint.
The question was about doors or wood.
Even better they require less maintenance and have fewer problems than steel or wood doors.
