Freshening up a faded or peeling garage door is easier than ever. The cost to paint a garage door ranges from $120 to $500, with most homeowners spending about $300.

When painting a garage door, it's crucial to prepare the surface correctly and follow the right steps. Discover some common mistakes you need to avoid.

A steel garage door can be painted with a high-quality acrylic latex exterior grade paint. Do not use any type of oil-based paint or alkyd modified acrylic latex paint.

As a fixture outdoors, cleaning your garage door takes more than a hose-down. Still, with the proper tools and setup, it is ...

We are all familiar with rust, that powdery-to-flaky brownish-red substance which eventually appears on most metal objects exposed to the elements. Rust is formed as a byproduct of a chemical reaction ...

A: Unless your garage door is falling apart, we think that a good dose of weather stripping and a good paint job will stop the flood.

Q:I am scraping the paint off my metal garage door and am sanding off as much rust as possible. Can I use Rust Reformer over all the metal before painting?

We have a 30-year-old galvanized-steel door that's suddenly not holding paint. I used oil primer and numerous topcoats, but nothing helps.—DAVID G., WOODINVILLE, WASHINGTON The problem is ...

Q. My steel garage door isn’t insulated. Is there any reason I can’t put blue board or Styrofoam on it using either silicone or an adhesive especially for this? Then I want to prime and paint ...