my daughter just had her roof painted. The roofers used wire brushes and sand paper. I do not know if they washed it or not. They did use two coats of rustolium roof paint. Their neighbor had a different contractor do similar work but used a paint from Sherwin Williams that is made by rustolium. Some how I do not think that rustolium would make a product for someone else that is better than their name brand product. Years ago when I had some tin roofs my dad and I painted with an aluminum paint that he purchased from Alcoa when he worked there. Again all we did was wire brush and sand. There was one place where there was some pin holes and he soldered a piece of tin over that area. Last year I switched everything to rubber which will most likely outlast me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <d...@andrew.cmu.edu> To: "Blind Handyman List" <BlindHandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 12:37 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Painting a tin roof.
Anyone have experience painting a tin roof? My porch roof is tin and is need of a little TLC. Everything I've read so far basically says: Scrape or sand, thoroughly wash with soap or TSP, dry, prime, paint two coats. Any recommendation or disrecommendation for paints to use? My neighbor just painted his porch roof and is now offering to paint everyone's porch roof, for a fee. I think his fee is too high, and he did some cursory scraping of loose rust and peeling paint, didn't wash, didn't prime, and used one coat of rustoleum paint. I don't think that will hold up, but I'm no painter. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel: (412) 268-9081 ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: blindhandyman-ow...@yahoogroups.com To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: blindhandyman-h...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links
