Guide to Painting Metal Surfaces
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Around the home you can paint many metal surfaces improving the look or your home and improving its value in the process. Painting metal surfaces can be more complex than traditional painting, with the key to good painting results being preparation.
Painting Aluminium
Painting aluminium requires you to scrub back to bare aluminium with turpentine and an abrasive pad. Once bare, rinse the aluminium with water and dry off. You should paint the aluminium as soon as possible iwth a water-based acrylic paint or if you wish to apply an enamel top coat then you should prime with water-based galvanised iron primer.
Also, if painting anodised aluminium window frames then you simply clean them down with water and detergent and repaint with an acrylic paint.
Painting Brass
To prepare for brass painting you wipe the brass down with methylated spirits, sand and prime with red oxide metal primer and apply and overcoat of two coats of a suitable oil-based or water-based acrylic paint.
Painting Copper
To paint copper simply sand back and prime with red oxide metal primer.
Painting Galvanised Iron
Often used in roofing and gutters galvanised iron is steel sheet with a surface layer of zinc. The reason for the zinc coating is that it stops the steel from rusting. The key to painting galvanised iron is the primer. If you don't apply primer or apply the wrong primer than this can cause issues. Therefore its important to check when buying the paint and primer. Usually, the primer for galvanised iron found in homes is a water-based acylic galvanised primer. Once the primer has been applied, you paint galvanised iron with your choice of oil-based or water-based paints.
Painting Rusty Steel
You need to get it right when painting rusty steel as rusty steel can be one of the hardest metal surfaces to paint. Firstly, you must treat the rusty steel properly, and you should try to remove all the rust with abrasive blast cleaning or acid pickling. If you can't treat the rusty steel in this way then it can be possible to treat it by scraping it or using a wire brush to prepare the area. You then apply either a rust converter or a rust remover. Next you apply an oil-based metal primer. Importantly the paint you use should include as little water, oxygen and salts as possible, so its best to choose a thick oil-based paint. At a bare minimum you should paint rusty steel with a metal primer and 2 coats of oil-based paint.
Service Central's metal painters
Service Central's painters specialise in the following types of metal painting:
- Steel Painting
- Powder Coating
- Powder Coat Restoration
- Metal Painting
- Iron Painting
- Metal Fence Painting
- Electro static painting
- Metal pool fence painting
- Metal fence restoration
- Metal Fence Renovation
- Heritage Fence Restoration
- Steel Powder Coating
- Wrought Iron Restoration
- Wrought iron powder coating
- Wrought iron painting
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Just wondering if you could tell me what type and process you can use to paint over lead sheets?
over a year ago by Melissa
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