Re-Painting an old piece of decorative metal work attached to my front entrance.
#1
06-16-15, 06:31 AM
Re-Painting an old piece of decorative metal work attached to my front entrance.
I just wanted some feedback on the process I'm using to paint this decorative metal work. I wire brushed all the lose paint and rust off. I'm prepping it with a rust converter. I can see the old layers of paint and I believe one is latex. Anyway, I was going to use a good quality primer for rusted metal and oil based finish paint.
How dose that sound?
How dose that sound?
#2
06-16-15, 07:41 AM
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Latex paint tends to flex better on metal that's expanding and contracting with sun exposure, especially dark colors. Oil primer underneath is fine.
#5
06-16-15, 09:23 AM
It's cast iron welded to square hollow tube from about the 1950's. I was going to prime the metal really well with rust preventative primer so maybe that will compensate for the lack of rust preventative in the latex.
