Remove Paint From Metal Door Frame

Steel door frames are strong and durable alternatives to wooden door frames.

Remove paint from metal door frame.

With the first door i actually damaged some of the moulding trying to remove the built up paint. Any advice for how to remove paint from hinges that are soldered to a metal door frame. Paint can be a force to be reckoned with. Regular soap and water won t do much to relieve a metal door of this stubborn substance.

The larger the grit 40 or 60 grit max the more paint it will remove. Repairing the damage is a requirement prior to painting. Or perhaps the painters before you did and now the paint has been dried on there for 10 15 even 20 years. Sometimes you need to strip paint.

Applying paint over rust will cause the paint to bubble and peel. How to easily remove dry paint from unwanted places forgot to remove the hardware during a recent paint job and slobbered a bit of latex paint on the door knobs. Our house was built in 1950 has metal door frames with hinges soldered to the door frame and was a rental for years so the hinges have piles of paint on them. Take a paint scraper and chip off the bubbled paint from all the flat surfaces of the metal.

Door frames secure a door and hold it in place. However steel door frames are susceptible to damage including dents and rust. I can remove the pin and the part attached to the door but half the hinge cannot be removed. It finds its way to surfaces it isn t wanted upon and dares anyone to try to remove it.

Hope you find this useful. Here s how it works. The paint will bubble up. The trade off is that the larger grit sandpaper will also scratch up the door frame itself so use a grit that removes the paint but doesn t scratch the frame.

Using the plastic scraper lift the paint from the piece and toss away. Use paper towels to wipe down the piece to remove any stripper residue as well as any left over paint chips that didn t come off. Sand down the rest of the frame to remove any leftover peeling paint. In fact an incredibly effective paint remover for metal is boiling water.

For crevices and harder to reach areas switch to a scrubbing pad or nylon. After the paint is removed you will clean up any left over spots with mineral spirits. None of the better door is damaged at all. The type of paint will determine the amount of effort involved in removing it.

Figuring out how to remove paint from metal doesn t have to be complicated or expensive.