Gel Stain My Garage Door

Tips for a diy garage door makeover and how to gel stain a garage door to look like wood choose the right stain color.

Gel stain my garage door.

Get the gel stain up there on your door and edge using the angled brush. It s a pretty easy thing to do overall. Try to make it non symmetrical like wood is and have varying pressures in different areas. Minwax gel stain is specifically designed to give you full control over the staining process and help you achieve beautiful results.

Affiliate links included for your convenience we used a less than 20 can of gel stain to transform our paint faded aluminum garage door. You are not letting it sit and minute and then wiping it off. We ve lived in our home almost 7 years now. Once you re done with the panel use the brush to remove some gel stain by applying pressure on the brush and dragging it across sideways like a wood grain would go.

Our gel stained garage door makeover happened one year ago so i m giving you guys an update. The gel stain dries super quick so i would recommend taking on this project when the weather is pleasant and when the garage door isn t in the direct sunlight. Delivers uniform color evenly on wood and non wood surfaces such as metal veneer and fiberglass. A good washing with soap and water using a pressure washer at the lowest setting should suffice.

If your garage door is less than five years old and has a glazed paint finish you ll have to sand it to remove the sheen in order for the stain to adhere properly. Once it has completely dried sand the entire door lightly with 120 grit sandpaper. Here we are halfway finished. Use wood cleaner to clean all dirt grime oils and bird poo off the door.

If you try to apply the second coat while the first coat is still wet you are going to strip away at the first coat. Wipe the dust from the door with a slightly damp rag. One coat of stain will usually suffice for most garage doors. Most garage doors are stamped to look like wood grain even though they are metal.

Gel stain usually dries very quickly especially on a sunny day. Not sure if it was the humidity or the nature of the gel stain itself but it took almost an entire day for the first coat of stain to dry. So i had to apply one more coat of stain to the doors. We chose this gel stain in mahogany.

Its unique non drip formula makes application easy for vertical surfaces. I used the mahogany wood gel stain by minwax since it s gel it works on metal and a 2 foam brush. However you can apply a second coat after the first has dried if you need to. Now gel stain is not like regular stain.

Any old finish that is cracked or peeling should be removed and smoothed before applying the new finish.