Sep 23, 2026
Yes — you can buy a painted door, and for most projects a factory-painted door is the better purchase. The confusion is that "painted" describes three different products: a bare door waiting for site paint, a factory-sprayed door in a standard colour, and a high-gloss PU lacquer where the coating is the product. Buyers researching polyurethane insulated garage doors run into exactly the same wall, and designers hunting for glossy PU polish doors often discover the finish they fell in love with in a showroom was custom-only. Here is what you can actually order, what each coating survives, and how to specify it so the door still looks right in ten years.