Transform your garage door to a gorgeous fauxwood door with this easy gel stain diy garagedoor makeover.
How to stain a wooden garage door.
Here are a few steps to staining your garage doors without major hiccups in this project.
You ll be happy to know that garaga offers a steel garage door in american walnut.
Start with cleaning your surface.
We chose this gel stain in mahogany.
Part of the process of staining a garage door to look like wood is using brush strokes to allow the base color to come through just a little to give it that woodgrain look.
To learn more consult a garage door specialist in your area.
It is painted in two directions a first in the garage door industry and then fired.
This gives it the appearance of a genuine wood door with the woodgrain effect embossed on the surface of the metal.
You can give your dry and sun bleached wood door a quick easy makeover in less than a day.
Once everything is ready put on protective eyewear and gloves and make sure you re working in a well ventilated area.
If you want to know how to restain a door i have a quick solution that ll work for most stained wood front doors.
To stain the edges either lift open the garage door in stages exposing the raw unstained wood edge under the rubber weather stripping and stain it as the door is slowly opened or open the door all the way and stain the raw edges from inside the garage.
And you don t have to strip any of the old stain off or even remove the door.
Wood staining is the best solution for longer lasting garage wooden doors.
Next choose a good quality stain with a petroleum base.