Gel Stain Garage Door Before And After

Consider staining your metal garage door.

Gel stain garage door before and after.

Stir minwax gel stain until creamy before use and occasionally during use. Prepare the surface begin by thoroughly cleaning your garage door using warm soapy water and a stiff brush. These instructions are also helpful for other simulated wood surfaces. One coat of stain will usually suffice for most garage doors.

You can see how light brown the garage door had become. Gel stain is particularly forgiving with splotch prone woods like birch cherry maple and pine. Most neutral colors would work great for this but if you ve got a bright or bold garage door color you may consider painting it neutral before adding the gel stain. Make sure the door surface is free of all dirt and foreign matter.

Before you start working on the project do a little color test on a small section of the garage door or on another metal surface. Lucky for me i already had a full quart of this in my garage from another project. Apply stain with the foam brush and use the 2 bristle brush to soften and blend stain to match the door and trim. For ease of staining and finishing it is recommended that you finish the door before installation.

These varieties tend to absorb thin traditional stains unevenly looking messy and unfinished no. You ll need to wait until the stain is completely dry before you can really tell if you ll be satisfied with the results or not. But here s a look at what the garage door looked like right before we stained it. After your gel stain has completely cured we waited about a week you will need to apply a wood protectant specifically designed to withstand sun and weather exposure.

However you can apply a second coat after the first has. Between the gel stain on the vanity and the new mirror this bathroom had left its aging past behind. Staining the doorjamb door frame the gel stain can also be used to stain the doorjamb door frame and mullions. I was thrilled with how it turned out.

Gel stained garage door. Below is a before and after of the gel stain used on the bathroom vanity. 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. Or you can follow the direction of the garage door pattern.

Using a foam brush i applied two coats of helmsman s spar urethane you can get it here. In case you missed the original gel stained garage door tutorial you can read all about it here. From the street no one will know it isn t real wood. Gel stain usually dries very quickly especially on a sunny day.

However the garage door will need to sit for up to 48 hours to allow the stain to dry completely. With just a few tips and not much money you can give your garage door a beautiful faux wood finish.