Urgent
Bare wood showing at the bottom edge
Water from mopping has got in. Wood swells, the door starts catching on the frame, and it has to be dried, sanded and sealed before anything else.
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Door Painting Dubai
Door painting Dubai homes need is the slowest part of any repaint and the part people notice first. A door is touched by a hand every day, so the finish has to harden properly before it goes back into use.
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- Handles and hinges taken off, not masked
- Edges and top of the door done too
- Drying time respected, not rushed
- Priced by the door, so you can pick which
Before & After
Door painting Dubai: before and after
Our own doors, photographed from the same spot before the work and after it.
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Doors and frames chipped back to bare wood, finished in dark brown.
Finishes
Door painting Dubai finishes, flat to shiny
This is the one surface where the shiny end of the ladder belongs. A door is handled constantly, and a harder, glossier finish is what survives that. Matt on a door marks the first week.
- No shine
Matt
Hides bumps and old repairs better than anything else. Marks do not wipe off well, so keep it off anything that gets touched.
- Very low shine
Eggshell
A soft finish you can still wipe. This is the safe answer for most bedrooms and living rooms.
- Low shine
Satin
Takes cleaning without losing its look. Good for hallways, stairs and the wall next to every door.
- Medium shine
Silk
Wipes down easily and handles steam, so it suits kitchens and bathrooms. It also shows every dent in the surface under it.
- High shine
Semi gloss
Made for wood and metal rather than for large walls. Doors, frames and skirting take it well.
- Full shine
Gloss
The hardest and easiest to clean of all of them. It needs a very smooth surface, because it hides nothing.
Overview
What door painting Dubai covers
Doors, frames and architraves. Walls and ceilings are quoted separately, and doing the lot in one visit costs less than doing them apart. Professional door painting Dubai is priced by the door, not by the room.
Doors and their frames
Wooden door painting Dubai for room doors, the frame around them and the architrave. A door painted without its frame always looks half done.
Inside and outside
Interior door painting Dubai in a hard wearing enamel, and exterior door painting Dubai in a product that survives direct sun on a front door.
Repainting tired doors
Door repainting Dubai homes need when the white has yellowed, the edges are chipped back to bare wood, or a previous coat was rushed and stayed soft.
Homes and workplaces
Home door painting Dubai for flats and villas, and commercial door painting Dubai for offices and shops, worked out of hours.
On The Job
Our door painters Dubai at work
Our own crews on real jobs. None of these are bought pictures.
What The Wall Is Telling You
When a door needs door painting Dubai
Run a hand down it and look at the edge nobody looks at. That is where a door tells you.
Urgent
Paint peeling off a front door
Sun has broken the coating down. Direct sun on a Dubai front door is harder on it than anything inside, and the loose coat has to come off.
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Chipped edges around the handle and lock
Everyday wear at the one place every hand lands. Filled, sanded and recoated, and the hardware comes off so the repair goes right to the edge.
Routine
The white has gone yellow
Old solvent based enamel yellows with age and with low light. It cannot be cleaned back. A water based finish stays white far longer.
Routine
The finish feels soft or tacky
A previous coat was never given time to harden. Enamel dries in hours and cures over days, and a door put back too soon stays soft.
Routine
Brush marks running down the panels
It was brushed out after the paint had started to set. On a door the finish is laid off in one pass while it is still open, not worked back over.
Preparation
The preparation behind door painting Dubai
On joinery the sanding is the job. A door is looked at from a foot away in a doorway, so every dust nib and every missed edge is in plain view.
- 01
Cover and protect
Floors, furniture, sockets and door handles get covered before a tin is opened. Dust sheets and tape, not old newspaper.
- 02
Wash the surface
Dubai dust settles on every wall every day. Painting over it means painting over grit, so walls are washed and left to dry first.
- 03
Cut out the cracks
A crack is opened up, cleaned and filled from the back. Skimming filler over the top of a crack hides it for a few months only.
- 04
Fill and sand
Holes, dents and old fixing points are filled, then sanded flat by hand. This is the step that decides how the finished wall looks in daylight.
- 05
Prime the repairs
Bare filler drinks paint at a different speed than the wall around it. Without primer, every repair reads through the finish as a dull patch.
- 06
Check before painting
We walk the room with you and a light before the first coat, because a missed dent is cheap now and expensive later.
The cheaper quote
What gets taken out to drop a price
None of this is visible on the day the job finishes. All of it is visible a year later.
- Washing the walls before painting
- Cutting out cracks instead of skimming over them
- Priming filled areas
- Sanding between coats
- Masking, instead of a steady hand and a wet cloth
- The second full coat
Rooms & Surfaces
Door painting Dubai, door by door
Doors in Dubai property are made four or five different ways, and what yours is made of decides the primer and whether painting it is even the right answer.
Solid wood doors
The best case. They sand well, they take enamel properly, and they can be stripped and refinished as many times as they need.
Veneered and flush doors
A thin real wood face over a hollow core, which is what most villa room doors are. The veneer sands once or twice and no more, so the sanding is light.
MDF and moulded doors
Common in newer apartments. They paint beautifully but the cut edges drink primer, and any water damage at the bottom cannot be sanded out.
Frames and architraves
The part that makes a door look finished. Painted with the door, in the same product, or the difference shows every time the door is open.
Front and exterior doors
Direct sun and heat need an exterior grade finish. An interior enamel on a Dubai front door chalks and peels within a season.
Wardrobe and cupboard doors
Usually MDF or veneer, usually a lot of them, and almost always done off their hinges laid flat so the finish flows out properly.
The Paint
Paint we use on door painting Dubai jobs
Water based enamel where you want it to stay white, solvent based where you want it hardest, and the right primer for the wood underneath. Door paint services Dubai homes get from us end with the tin and the colour code handed over.
Jotun
Sold across the UAE with interior emulsions and exterior wall coatings in the same range, so one brand can cover a whole villa inside and out.
Dulux
A full interior and exterior range that is easy to buy in Dubai, which matters when a job needs one more tin on the last day.
National Paints
Made in the UAE, so stock is easy and a colour can be matched again months later without a long wait.
Berger
Long established in the Gulf with both wall and wood ranges, so one brand can cover a whole flat.
Hempel
Better known for protective coatings, which is why it turns up on exterior and common area work rather than in bedrooms.
Want a brand that is not on this list? Name it and we will buy it. The paint is bought in your name either way.
TRAXICO is an independent painting contractor. We are not an agent or dealer for any paint maker, we buy the product you choose, and we hand you the tins and receipts at the end of the job.
Scope
What door painting services Dubai include
The same list on one door or on every door in the property.
- 1
Check what the door is made of
Solid, veneer or MDF, and whether there is water damage at the bottom. That decides how hard it can be sanded and whether paint is the right answer at all.
- 2
Take the hardware off
Handles, locks, latch plates and stops come off. Masking around a handle leaves a ridge and a line of old colour underneath it.
- 3
Wash and degrease
A door carries hand oil around the handle and cooking grease near a kitchen. Paint over either of those will not grip properly.
- 4
Fill and sand
Chips, dents and old screw holes filled, then the whole door sanded by hand to key the old finish. This is where the hours go.
- 5
Prime bare wood
Every filled area and every patch of bare wood primed. Bare timber and MDF edges drink the finish coat and dry duller than the rest.
- 6
Two coats, laid off in one pass
Enamel is applied and then laid off in a single stroke while it is still open. Brushing back over a setting coat is what leaves the marks.
- 7
Edges and the top
Both long edges and the top edge nobody sees. An unpainted top edge takes in dust and moisture and is the usual reason a door starts to swell.
- 8
Drying time before it goes back
Hardware refitted only once the finish has hardened. A door closed against a frame too early sticks to it and pulls the paint off.
Not covered by this service
Quoted separately, so nothing appears on your invoice unexpectedly.
- Repairing or replacing a door that is swollen or split, which is a carpentry job
- New locks, handles or hinges, though we refit whatever comes off
- Walls, ceilings and skirting, which are quoted separately
- Stripping and staining a door back to natural wood, which is quoted on its own
How It Works
How our door painting Dubai job runs
Six steps. A door is quick to paint and slow to do properly, and the order is why.
- 01
Visit and count the doors
Priced by the door, so you can leave any of them out. We check the material and the condition of each one rather than quoting a flat rate.
- 02
Decide in place or off
Wardrobe doors and anything with panels come off and lie flat, which gives a better finish. Room doors are usually done in place.
- 03
Strip the hardware and protect
Handles, locks and plates off and bagged. Floor covered under every door, because this is where drips happen.
- 04
Fill, sand and prime
Chips filled, the whole face keyed by hand, bare wood and filler primed. The longest stage by a distance.
- 05
Two coats with real drying between
First coat, a light sand once it is properly dry, then the finish coat laid off in one pass. Not two coats in one afternoon.
- 06
Refit and leave it open
Hardware back on, and the door left standing open for as long as the product needs. Closing it too early is how a fresh door gets marked.
The Decision
Door painting Dubai: paint, strip or replace
Not every tired door is a painting job, and being told so is worth more than a discount.
| Your situation | What we advise | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Chipped edges, sound door | Fill and repaint | Normal wear. Filled, sanded and recoated, and it looks new for years. |
| Yellowed white, otherwise fine | Repaint in water based | Old solvent enamel yellows with age. A water based finish stays white far longer. |
| Many thick old coats, detail lost | Strip first | Another coat on a door with five under it fills the mouldings and looks worse, not better. |
| Swollen or soft at the bottom | Carpentry first | Water damaged wood keeps moving. Paint over it cracks along the same line within months. |
| A hollow door with a hole in it | Usually replace | A hollow core cannot be filled properly. A new door often costs less than making the old one look right. |
| You want natural wood rather than paint | Strip and stain | A different job with a different price, and it only works on solid or good veneer doors. |
If the walls and frames are going at the same time, the whole room is on interior painting Dubai and the walls alone are on wall painting Dubai.
Why TRAXICO
Why pick our door painting company Dubai
A door is the closest anyone ever looks at painted work. These are the things that survive that.
Hardware comes off
Handles, locks and plates removed and refitted. Most door painting contractors Dubai has will mask around them, which leaves a ridge and old colour underneath. Ask any door painting contractor Dubai based whether the hardware comes off.
Curing time is respected
Enamel dries in hours and hardens over days. A door refitted and closed too early sticks to the frame, and that is the commonest complaint about door work.
Edges and top edge included
Both long edges and the top nobody ever sees. An unpainted top edge is how a door takes in moisture and starts to swell.
Laid off in one pass
The finish is applied and stroked out once while it is still open, never worked back over. That is what leaves a door smooth instead of striped.
We say when paint is wrong
A swollen bottom rail or a hollow door with a hole in it needs a carpenter or a new door. Painting it is money spent on a problem that comes back.
Priced by the door
Take any door out of the quote and the number changes honestly, which is not true of a price given by the room.
Worth Knowing
Door painting Dubai: why joinery is different
Four things that are true of a door and of nothing else in the property.
Water based or solvent based for door painting Dubai
This is the only real product decision on a door, and both answers are defensible.
Solvent based enamel is harder. It cures to a tougher film, it survives being knocked, and it lays off to a smoother surface than most water based products. It also smells strongly for a day or two, and it yellows. A white solvent door in a hallway with little daylight will be noticeably cream in three or four years.
Water based enamel stays white. It smells very little, it dries much faster, and modern versions are far tougher than the ones that gave them a bad name. It is slightly softer than solvent, so on a door that gets hammered it will mark sooner.
The honest rule is about the door rather than the product. A front door, a kitchen door or a childrens bedroom door that is pushed open with a shoulder ten times a day is a solvent job. Everything else in a normal home is better in water based, because the white staying white matters more than the last ten per cent of hardness.
What is not defensible is wall paint on a door. Emulsion on joinery never hardens properly and marks with a hand within a fortnight, and it is what a very cheap quote means.
Drying and curing are not the same thing
This is the single most useful thing to know about door painting Dubai jobs, and almost nobody is told it.
A finish dries when the solvent or water leaves it, which takes a few hours. It cures when the film chemically hardens all the way through, which takes days. In between, the door looks finished and is still soft.
A door refitted and closed against its frame during that window sticks to the frame. When it is opened, the paint pulls away in a strip along the edge, and the only fix is to sand it back and do it again.
So a freshly painted door is left standing open, and the hardware goes back on last. On a busy house that is inconvenient for a day or two and it is the difference between a door that looks right and one that has a torn edge.
Heat and humidity both slow curing down. A door painted in a room with the cooling off in August takes noticeably longer than the tin says.
The edges door painting Dubai jobs usually miss
Every door has six faces and most repaints cover two of them.
The two long edges, the top and the bottom are all left, because they are not visible when the door is shut. The top edge is the one that matters. It sits horizontal, it collects dust, and in a bathroom or a kitchen it takes in steam. Unsealed timber up there swells, and a door that suddenly catches on its frame in summer is very often this.
The bottom edge is the other one. Mopping puts water against it every week, and MDF in particular soaks it up and swells into a soft edge that cannot be sanded back.
We paint the long edges and the top as standard, and we seal the bottom where the door can be lifted off. It adds very little time and it is most of the reason a door lasts.
The hinge edge is worth mentioning too. Paint built up in the hinge recesses stops a door closing squarely, which is why the hardware comes off rather than being painted around.
When door painting Dubai is the wrong answer
Three doors in a typical property are not worth painting, and saying so early saves the money.
A door with five or six coats already on it has lost its detail. The mouldings are soft, the panels are rounded, and another coat makes it worse. That one wants stripping, which is a slow job but the only one that gives the door back.
A door swollen or soft at the bottom has water in the timber. Wood that has moved keeps moving, and paint over it cracks along the same line within a few months. That is a carpenter, or a new door.
A hollow core door with a hole punched through it cannot be filled properly, because there is nothing behind the skin to fill against. A replacement door usually costs less than the hours it takes to make that one look right.
And a door somebody wants back to natural timber is a stripping and staining job rather than a painting one. It works on solid wood and on good veneer, and it does not work on MDF at all.
Pricing
Door painting Dubai prices and packages
Priced by the door after a visit, with frames listed separately. The door painting service Dubai homes book most is every internal door in a flat, done in one visit.
Single Door
One door and its frame.
Quoted on inspection
- Hardware removed and refitted
- Chips filled and the face keyed
- Bare wood and filler primed
- Two coats, laid off in one pass
- Edges and top edge included
Most requested
All Internal Doors
Every door in a flat or villa, in one visit.
Quoted on inspection
- Priced per door, so you can leave any out
- Frames and architraves in the same product
- One finish through the property
- Sequenced so you always have doors to use
- Colour and product recorded for you
Front Or Exterior Door
A door that stands in direct sun.
Quoted on inspection
- Loose coating taken back to sound material
- Exterior grade primer and finish
- Extra coat on the sun facing face
- Weather seals and threshold checked
- Timed so it is not left open overnight
Wardrobes And Cupboards
Doors taken off and laid flat.
Quoted on inspection
- Doors removed, numbered and laid flat
- A better finish than any door done upright
- Hinges and handles refitted after curing
- Carcass edges done at the same time
- Usually two to three days for a full room
What moves the price
How many doors
The set up, protection and clean up happen once. Ten doors in one visit is far cheaper per door than one door on its own.
What they are made of
Solid wood sands well and takes anything. Veneer sands once. MDF edges need extra primer, and a damaged MDF bottom rail cannot be saved.
How many coats are on there already
A door with a few coats is a repaint. A door with six is a stripping job, and that is hours rather than materials.
In place or off the hinges
Doors laid flat get a better finish and take longer to handle. Wardrobe doors are nearly always worth doing that way.
Colour change
White over white is two coats. A dark stain colour over white, or white over a dark door, needs a tinted primer or a third coat.
No surprises on the invoice
Frames and architraves are listed as their own line. A door painted without its frame always looks half finished, but it is your call and you should be able to see what it costs.
Related
Services that go with Door painting Dubai
Property problems rarely stay inside one trade.
- Interior Painting DubaiThe whole inside job: walls, ceilings, doors and skirting together.
- Wall Painting DubaiThe walls around the doors, priced wall by wall.
- Move Out Painting DubaiDoors and frames made good before a checkout inspection.
- Exterior Painting DubaiOutside walls and metalwork, in coatings built for direct sun.
Questions
Door Painting: frequently asked questions
What customers ask before booking, answered without the sales pitch.
It is priced by the door, and the number of doors matters more than anything. Ten doors in one visit is far cheaper per door than one on its own, because the set up and clean up happen once.
The finish dries in hours and hardens over days. We leave doors standing open and refit the hardware last. Closing a door too early is how the paint tears along the frame edge.
Water based stays white and smells very little, and it is right for most doors in a home. Solvent based is harder and suits a front door or a door that gets pushed open all day, but white solvent enamel yellows over a few years.
Yes, and we recommend it. A door painted without its frame looks half finished every time it is open. Frames are a separate line on the quote so you can decide.
Yes. Wooden door painting Dubai in a dark shade needs a tinted primer and usually a third coat to look solid, and that goes in the quote rather than being found out on the day.
Not honestly. Wood that has taken in water keeps moving, and paint over it cracks along the same line within months. That one needs a carpenter or a replacement first.
Yes, along with the locks and latch plates, and we refit them once the finish has hardened. Masking around a handle leaves a ridge and a line of the old colour underneath it.
Yes. Commercial door painting Dubai for office and retail doors runs out of hours, and the doors are back in use before your staff arrive.
We work across the whole city, so a search for door painting near me Dubai reaches us wherever you are. Marina, JVC, Downtown, Business Bay, Mirdif, Al Barsha and Deira are all normal working areas.
Yes, and an empty property is the best time for it, because doors can be left open to harden without anybody working around them.
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Areas we cover
All 30 Dubai communities. Technicians go out from whichever team is closest, which is why a call from Business Bay and one from Dubailand get different arrival times.
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