How To Paint Wood Trim Around Garage Door

Start at the top corner and continue along the walls.

How to paint wood trim around garage door.

Door trim can surround interior and exterior doors as well as openings to hallways or entryways. When painting wood doors make sure all six sides of your door are covered to protect it from rotting cracking and expansion. Starting at a top corner of the door trim begin painting along the side edge of the trim where it meets the wall. We ll show you how to achieve a mar free surface that ll hold paint for 10 years or longer.

Continue until all side edges of the trim are complete. That s a lot of time for our wood trim to be exposed to the elements. How to prepare door trim for painting. Paint with the grain as you do when sanding.

Then paint the horizontal cross pieces the rails and finally paint the vertical pieces the stiles. With your brush paint cut in around the perimeter of the garage door in a 2 3 wide section. Paint failure is common on wooden garage doors especially raised panel ones which have many joints where water can enter. Apply a quality exterior paint to the door using the same method as described for priming.

Bottom to top starting with the inner panels and working outward to the. Choose whether you need to prime the door before painting. Whether you re repainting wood or painting wood that s been stained and varnished the steps here apply to doors windows or trim. If it was painted with oil based paint prime before using a latex based paint.

Our house is almost 20 years old. Wood trim on a house is lovely until it isn t anymore. Repeat around the perimeter of the garage door loosening all of the trim. The key to a long lasting paint job is to prepare the woodwork so it s clean and gloss free.

Because of this the outside trim around the front doors garage door and the porch pillar were in pretty bad shape this spring. 3 grab the trim with your hands and work it back and forth up and down until it comes off. Reload the brush when necessary and maintain a wet edge. If the door is paneled use a brush and paint the panels first.

If the door was originally painted with latex paint priming should be unnecessary.