So if like me you have an automatic roller door on your garage and you are wondering how do you paint a roller garage door, then I have a solution! It’s tricky to decide whether to paint the door with standard exterior paint or whether this will withstand the door rolling open and shut. The roller door itself seems to be made of metal so I thought a metal based paint would be what I needed. I did actually google whether there was a special garage paint available, and in fact there is, but the reviews on it were all one star and made me think twice about buying it.

So in the end I actually bought two different types of paint as I couldn’t really make the decision. I bought a traditional exterior paint that you apply with a brush and also a can of spray paint as I thought maybe that would go on to the roller door better and get into all of the cracks.

I decided that I would try the spray paint. I cleaned and dried the roller garage door thoroughly first and then did a test patch with the paint. I checked it a couple of hours later and it looked fine so I went for the whole lot. Now I used the same colour (red) as the existing garage door and I maybe wouldn’t recommended this if you were going for a completely different colour. I thought I would need 2 cans of the spray paint but in the end I only needed one. Because the colours were similar (they weren’t exactly the same) I didn’t have to make sure the coverage was 100% as it looked fine with a spray paint. It covered over the graffitti on my garage door which was the main reason I needed to paint it.

The paint I used was this one below. It is a spray paint suitable for metal indoors and out and it did a really good job, just be careful not to overspray so that you don’t get any drips. I actually bought mine from B&Q but now I see it is much cheaper on Amazon so in future I’ll look there. You can buy it in plenty of other colours so just click through to see the options.