How To Fix Peeling Paint On Garage Door

Use a primer over bare wood.

How to fix peeling paint on garage door.

In order to fix the peeling problem you have to eliminate the cause. Examine the steel garage doors carefully. Wipe the sanding dust from the door with a clean damp cloth. First you ll need to remove all the loose paint on the garage door.

Paint the area with aerosol metal primer. Apply a second coat of primer to the door and allow it to dry completely. Hold the can 10 inches from the door and work in slightly overlapping sweeping motions to avoid drips. Allow the primer to dry to the touch.

Sometimes the paint will be free of the metal but has yet to crack. Replace peeling paint flat sawn boards with boards that have vertical grain or sand all the paint off and coat them with a paintable water repellent before priming and repainting. That s a lot of time for our wood trim to be exposed to the elements. Scrape all the chipped bubbled and peeling paint off the steel garage door with a rigid metal putty knife.

Because of this the outside trim around the front doors garage door and the porch pillar were in pretty bad shape this spring. Look for spots where the paint is peeling and use the paint scraper to remove the paint. But we found an easy solution to peeling outdoor paint without all the scraping and sanding. The water repellent might stabilize them enough so that they hold paint longer.

Clean the primer from the paint pan using soapy water for. Scrape off the peeling paint with a paint scraper then sand down the door with your hand sander paying extra attention to the areas that were peeling. Just use your paint brush to apply a small square of paint. Our house is almost 20 years old.

Leave it to dry for a couple of hours and then stick a strip of masking tape to the test square and peel it off again immediately.