Door Restoration in Lewisville, TX

Doors get refinished rather than replaced. Sanding, staining and resealing, bringing a worn or weathered door back rather than paying for a new one.

A south or west-facing front door in Texas takes a serious amount of direct sun, and the finish is what fails, not usually the door. Once the clear coat goes chalky and starts flaking, UV reaches the wood underneath and it greys and opens up. Caught at the finish stage it is a refinishing job; left long enough it becomes a replacement.

The work is mostly patience. Stripping the old finish, sanding back through the grits so the surface takes stain evenly, staining, then building several thin coats of exterior clear rather than one thick one. Thin coats cure properly and do not trap solvent; a heavy coat looks good for a season and then clouds.

The exterior clear is the part that determines how long it lasts, and it is the part worth spending on. A marine or spar-type finish stays slightly flexible so it moves with the door through hot days and cold nights instead of cracking, and it carries UV inhibitors that ordinary interior varnish does not.

Doors have also come to us as part of bigger lists: staining a front door, reworking a sliding back door that had stopped running properly. Hardware, weatherstripping and how the door operates matter as much as the finish.