Enclosed a small porch for a condo owner in Ohio. 5 double hung windows, skylite, small built-in tv cabinet, etc…came out beautiful…except…
Installed a prehung ext metal clad door. no screen, no storm. facing southwest.
The painter painted it with a dark green paint over the doors original shop primer…looks great except the door doesn’t open on a hot day after the sun beats on it a few hours..seems the paint gets tacky and seals the door shut. HO has to go around the outside and pry the magnetic? weather strip away from the door with a table knife…eventually the seal was torn off. Replaced with an aftermarket seal from Home Repo..and….first warm day seal is ripped off.
Short of stripping the whole door and repainting, any fixes???
Also if I do repaint what do I use?
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It sounds like something is wrong with the paint that it didn't properly cure. I painted a metal ext. door dark gray, no screen, no trouble. I sprayed latex over the factory primer.
If you want to try something else first, you could spray one of the slippery coatings, used to make table saw surfaces slide nicely, on the seal side of the problem. Some of these have silicone which will mess up your chances of getting a new paint coat to lay down nicely if you end up having to strip the door, as the silicone causes a blemish called 'fish-eye', but some don't; look for the right product.
Alternatively, you could try waxing the seal with floor wax and buff it off. Wax isn't hard to clean off the door if you need to repaint, and it may give you all the un-stickiness separation barrier you need to fix the problem.
The paint is getting tacky because it is a dark color, the heat from the sun makes it hotter than lighter colors. That being said it should not get tacky. Remove weatherstripping , install brass weather stripping, the brass to brass solves the problem of door to felt stripping.
mike