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| I have watched many youtube videos about faux painting a wood look garage door, but don't know what products to use. As a practice I put on a base coat of light orange, put on a walnut stain, but it simply ran off. I then tried the same base coat with a rust color paint mixed with flotrol, but not good either. Any suggestions would be appreciated. In case it matters, it's a double car alum/textured with panels Thanks Patrish10 |
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- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Mon, Mar 11, 13 at 13:51
| You need to prep the surface by scrubbing it really well, rinse, let it dry. Don't mix paint types - if the primer is water-based, use water-based paints for the color coats. If the primer is solvent-based, use solvent-based paints. You will get the best results with a roller for the first color coat, then apply the "grain" paints with a brush and the faux-painting tools =========== |
Here is a link that might be useful: Primer for aluminum
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- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Tue, Mar 12, 13 at 8:44
| We painted our garage door and the BM guys suggested we use stix primer to make sure the paint would adhere to the metal first, then paint over it. |
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| Not to be a "Danny-downer", but I'd think about this a few times.... If not done well, it looks like H=LL IMO. On my M-I-L's condo, they had done some "wood-graining" on steel passage doors....Uggghhhh....almost hurled every time I saw them. You may hurt resale-value some too. If you HAVE to do it, use ZAR stains. NOT tryin' to be harsh here, but there's 7,000 projects I'd do b4 this one. Faron |
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