I Need To Paint My Garage Door - Help

nelly05

Good morning and thanks for looking.

The whole of my front garden needs doing and i need a new garage door, but for now i just want to improve the appearance.

It is a metal door, currently white - in places and some has peeled.

What is the best way to repaint this please:-

Preparation
Type of paint
Roller of brush
Amount of paint? (standard single garage door up and over)

Many thanks in advance

Regards

kaya

sandpaper, soapy water, hammerite and bush, job done

Hornet

Did mine last weekend - I bought dulux weathershield paint - was on offer in homebase. Used about 1 litre for 2 doors. I sanded down and cleaned with white sprit and then put the dulux on. Looks like new doors now.

Fraserca

Same for me Hornet - Did that last year and they look like new.

I did use a gloss roller and good quality liquid paint ( Santex Front Door Paint ) . If you use thick paint and a brush you will get brush marks so use descent paint and a brush for the inaccesible bits then go over it with the roller.

Scrape off the loose paint and rub it all down. Wipe with a turps / white spirit soaked rag to degrease and get rid of the dust, allow to dry then start painting.

One coat was enough.

Good luck

mexicanwaver

What's the best way of stripping the old paint off......particularly when it's quite thick and peeling?

uncle_buck_3

I stripped the thick flaking paint from my metal garage door in my old house with a hot air stripper….I waited until the summer & as the sun shone on the door it used to get very hot….add a bit of heat from the hot air gun & the pain came off very fast & easy…I was down to a bare door in no time at all.
As the door was galvanised steel it had to be primed with a primer suitable for such.
Once this was dry stuck on the top coat …looked like new.

HTH.

mexicanwaver

Thaks for that Uncle Buck.

Ellie2758

Hornet wrote:

Did mine last weekend - I bought dulux weathershield paint - was on offer in homebase. Used about 1 litre for 2 doors. I sanded down and cleaned with white sprit and then put the dulux on. Looks like new doors now.

Do you need to prime the door first?

Stompa

http://www.hammerite.com/uk/products/ps_garage_door_paint.html

http://www.hammerite.com/uk/products/usage/ug_garage_door_paint.html

robwend

good ol wilkinson one coat gloss. there all the same!!