Log Home Restoration: Cedar Garage Doors

In this log home restoration, these cedar garage doors once had a clear coat applied. You can’t tell from the picture but there were places the sealer was still intact. This required us to do a typical chemical strip.

Green mildew can be seen on the very bottom and the black, dark area is water stain damage caused by water “splash back.”                                                          

The customer thought the door was beyond repair and didn’t want to spend the money on trying to refinish.

I suggested to let us see what we could do before replacing the whole door.

As you can see, the doors were stripped, neutralized, treated with borate and sealed with a parrifin oil finish. No more mildew, black stains and best of all, this sealer will not peel, blister or crack. Very easy to maintain by just washing lightly and re-applying a new coat.

Wood this close to the ground is always going to be a problem. Keeping a sealer applied every year is about the only way to keep the doors from having even more problems.

By the way….stay away from latex stains in this situation. They will not hold up and trying to remove it and refinishing is not worth the time and money.