Painting Trim Around Garage Door

Brushes are best for applying paint to most trim.

Painting trim around garage door.

If your garage door isn t great looking a coat of paint will only help to hide it. Hiding your garage door will draw attention to other parts of the house and if you ve done recent exterior work it s a good bet to put your garage door in the background with a color that blends into the house. If your door is paneled start with the panels. Paint a section at a time.

Continue until all side edges of the trim are complete. Most of our clients agree that garage doors should be painted siding color while the trim around the doors are painted to match the trim on the rest of the house. The majority of homes we paint garage doors are painted body color. Starting at a top corner of the door trim begin painting along the side edge of the trim where it meets the wall.

Trim paints are. When preparing your trim for paint you should have all of. With a bit of elbow grease and the right products you can make that old faded vinyl trim look as good as new again. Reload the brush when necessary and maintain a wet edge.

Latex enamel also holds. How to paint vinyl trim. Start at the top corner and continue along the walls. Using semigloss exterior paint and a 2 inch angled sash brush with synthetic bristles paint around the edges of the.

That s a lot of time for our wood trim to be exposed to the elements. Door trim can surround interior and exterior doors as well as openings to hallways or entryways. Reload the brush when necessary and maintain a wet edge. Considering most garage doors are not exactly what we would consider a unique feature of your home.

A 2 5 to 3 inch angled sash brush is generally all you need but if you have a lot of wide trim you may want a 4 inch square brush a pad or even a mini roller. How to prepare door trim for painting. With your brush paint cut in around the perimeter of the garage door in a 2 3 wide section. Paint labeled specifically for use on trim and doors is certainly one suitable option to refresh baseboards moldings soffits and fascia such as the front of the roof line.

Though vinyl trim is durable once it gets weather. Our house is almost 20 years old.