Gel Stain Over A Varnished Wooden Garage Door

Affiliate links included for your convenience we used a less than 20 can of gel stain to transform our paint faded aluminum garage door.

Gel stain over a varnished wooden garage door.

Sand with 150 grit paper. With the oak cabinets the grain was very evident post staining. However the garage door will need to sit for up to 48 hours to allow the stain to dry completely. I think one misconception is that you have to strip and sand a piece down to bare wood before you can re stain it.

The gel stain is thick like pudding not a liquid. Spread on spackling compound. Sometimes that is necessary but if you have a piece without much of a topcoat sealer poly etc. This is a lot less work than staining the door originally so it wasn t too bad.

Painting over stain steps. With water based varnishes re application on outdoor surfaces is a fact of life. Gel stain will not require you to sand the product to a raw wood finish. Prime with tinted primer.

Transform your garage door to a gorgeous faux wood door with this easy gel stain diy garage door makeover. While gel stain does go on thick and sit on the surface of the wood i found that you can still see and feel the natural wood grain beneath unlike paint. We stained the doors hanging this made it much easier as we could finish both sides without having to wait for the opposite side to dry. While the gel stain is wet use a graining tool to create a wood grain pattern.

Gel stain usually dries very quickly especially on a sunny day. At the end of the re application my door was as good as new. The great thing about using a gel stain is it will sit on a vertical surface without dripping. When brushing work on each section of the door at a time and try to mimic the direction of natural wood grain.

Apply the gel stain wait about 10 minutes and wipe to remove the extra stain. If you have ugly stained and varnished doors and trim and you d like to paint the whole works here s the best way to get a good looking result. We ve lived in our home almost 7 years now. Our gel stained garage door makeover happened one year ago so i m giving you guys an update.

Or you can follow the direction of the garage door pattern. We ve been dreaming up garage door makeover ideas since we first purchased our home and though we ve been making over just about every square inch of our house our garage door was working and in great condition. Prime with stain killing primer. Stain over paint or existing stain without having to strip your old finish.

So i did a minor touch up by re sanding the door applying the stain where needed then applying new coats of varnish. You need to work in small areas. Paint with acrylic latex. I shared the makeover of a mid century modern credenza last week where i used general finishes gel stain over the existing finish on the piece and wanted to share how i did that.

Since we moved into our home our brown painted aluminum garage door had faded more and more.