Refinishing a wood front door, What will it cost?

You have a beautiful wood front door that needs refinishing.

Over time weather such as rain, heat, cold and snow can effect and wear down the coating of your exterior door.  In the following case the spar varnish on these doors were failing due to the weather.

What are the steps and the cost of refinishing the front door?

(The door featured on the right is a door that has been sanded and refinished with two coats of a marine spar varnish.)

1. All door hardware is removed from the door, handset, peep hole and door knocker.
2. The entire door is sanded with a power sander with dust extraction (we utilize Festool sanders and extractors)
3. all detail is hand sanded.
4. vacuum and tack cloth off all surfaces
5. apply exterior spar varnish
6. When dry light sand and tack cloth off
7. Apply second coat of spar varnish
8. When dry install all hardware previously removed.

The cost of refinishing the front door pictured was $ 650.00.  The cost of refinishing the garage door pictured was $ 2,700.  Both of these doors were refinished as stated above and no stain was used in this process.

If you have questions regarding refinishing your front door or garage door or would like to arrange a site visit, please contact us via www.ramsdenpainting.com or 978-683-9119