Any painters out there or people that know about paints . Right I have some big garage doors approx 8ft×9ft x2 there metal framed with thick ( marine ply ? ) previous owners of the house seemed to have painted them in blue hammerite ( found an old tin of it ) now I want to repaint them possibly a different colour in a decent outdoor paint but don't particularly want to use hammerite again mostly due to probably needs tons of the stuff . Can you paint over it or is it going to be a case of stripping it all off? Which is going to be a right Pita and take forever . Ideas would be grateful Need to wait for weather to warm up a bit 1st aswell Sent from my SM-J500FN using Tapatalk
I've never had much luck painting over Hammerite. There's something in it that seems to react with other paint. You could try power-sanding it back then a coat of primer?
Like matty said, try a patch first but Hammerite is quite oily in it's finish (for a reason) so for a good job, afraid it's time to strip off (ohh err)
Thought as much . I was told years ago that it had a silicone base in ? Dunno how true that's probably why nothing will stick to . Its It's been on for god knows how many years the old tin I found was very rusty on the outside. I may try a bit once flatted a bit see what happens . But it looks like I'm gonna have to strip and get the right arm too work . Oh er Next question what do I use to get it off ? I have a heat gun dunno if that will be effective at heating up and then scraping? Sent from my SM-J500FN using Tapatalk
Think I will buy a sander as I'll be f##ked if I'm gonna rub that lot down by hand lol Thanks for the replys folks Sent from my SM-J500FN using Tapatalk
^this, I think. I originally painted my fuel tank bulkhead with Hammerite, and everything reacted with it. In the end, I just resprayed it with Smoothrite.
