Gate before the strike

Somehow it was time sweating to make the gate in tandem, as the facade was renovated. And so it remained until it was high time: gray and it looked ugly anyway out (Fig. 1), but now was the old paint has also become brittle and cracked. The paint is leafed and in some places the wood was no longer protected.
Gate stress

Gate after the strike
Gate after the strike (photo: Deutsches Institut paint)

That meant rolling up the sleeves, but now! The old paint was sanded off, and "naked" wood, which was already graying due to weather influences, had to be handled with the orbital sander until his natural color was to be seen again. Then, a solvent-based primer is applied. Because of the raw wood. Only then let prevented that water-soluble dyes of the wood later "bleed through". After further grinding - but this time only slightly to roughen the surface - the door was painted with a lustrous silk, acrylic solvent-poor-weather paint.
The hinge bracket, which were painted in the end, received the same darker shade of blue as the frame of the front door. Shall adapt and blend together both in "soft" contrast to the truss (Fig. 2).
Good time to renovate

The German paint Institute recommends that you wait for renovation with paint not until the last moment. For the worst enemy of fittings, furniture made of wood - so many more doors, windows, beams - Is moisture. Once the lacquer coating is not more "dense" is, Wet penetrates into the fibers. Let them soak the wood and is also the preferred living element of microorganisms, which destroy the wood.

Constantly be refreshing strength coatings provide not only for glory and beauty, but also ensure the projects a long life.