Painting Wood Trim Around Garage Door

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Painting wood trim around garage door.

Position a hand held bulb at least 60 watts so it shines across the wood surface to detect loose paint rough edges and other blemishes in the surface to determine what needs to be filled. If the door is paneled use a brush and paint the panels first. Paint with the grain as you do when sanding. Because of this the outside trim around the front doors garage door and the porch pillar were in pretty bad shape this spring.

Painted areas trim and molding aluminum siding around garage door. Paint failure is common on wooden garage doors especially raised panel ones which have many joints where water can enter. Continue until all side edges of the trim are complete. Our house is almost 20 years old.

Starting at a top corner of the door trim begin painting along the side edge of the trim where it meets the wall. Use a primer before painting on all areas of bare wood and on areas of trim that have cracks or chipped paint on them. The garage door trim step 1 starting at a top corner of the door trim paint the side edge of the trim where it meets the wall. Use a pencil and lightly circle spots that need work.

Already purchased paint no and i want the pro to recommend. The primer will help to seal bare wood and any cracks as well as help to cover. Painted surface materials wood aluminum or other metal. That s a lot of time for our wood trim to be exposed to the elements.

Then paint the horizontal cross pieces the rails and finally paint the vertical pieces the stiles. Wood trim on a house is lovely until it isn t anymore. Visible damage peeling or flaking paint.