Paneling and Trim - Water damage on wood baseboard/shoe outside shower

Hi,

I have a walk-in shower. Water gets outside the shower and onto the wood trim (baseboard/shoe). The paint is basically worn off now or rippled in some places from the water damage. Note this is not a lot of water, just from when we get out of the shower (towels are right above/etc.). So there isn't a leak or anything to worry about.

How do I go about fixing this? Sand it, and paint with Kilz, then topcoat? I want to make sure this doesn't happen in the future as well...

Is there a composite (waterproof) type of material I can replace this with (baseboard and shoe)?? And then paint over??

Thanks!!!

If there are any water stains in the wood - be sure to use a solvent based primer. Original oil base kilz will work, latex kilz will not. Be sure the wood is dry before you prime.

Caulk the base and shoe, and then apply 2 coats of quality enamel. While the enamel won't last forever, it will repell moisture as long as it's in good shape. IMO it would be easier to sand and apply a fresh coat of enamel every couple of years than to replace it with trim that may not look as nice as wood.

Mark prob has the best advice...but it depends on the trim profile. They make a plastic trim that you couldn't tell the diff from wood when its painted. Not the polyurathane (is that what it is?) stuff with all the different wood grain colors and patterns. What I'm talking about only comes in a few profiles and is normally in the same place as the wood.

Ahhh....it was called "Timbron" where I used to live...don't know if its available everywhere. Kinda tough to nail, predrill anything even close to the ends..(like w/i 3").

Thanks for the info!

I've seen that enamel paints can be latext based as well as oil based. If I use oil-based Kilz, would I then have to use oil-based enamel? Or were you suggesting oil-based enamel paint regardless of the type of Kilz used?

Thanks!

You can apply latex, oil base or waterborne paint over oil base primer. I do not recomend using latex kilz! It does a poor job of sealing stains and has been reported to have adhesion issues:eek: