Dan, Tell you what I would do.
I would give the roof a prefunctary scrape/wire brush and then give it a rinse and allow to dry. Next I would grab some Rustoleum and go to work and call it good. Red roof? I had a 12x12 shed constructed in my side yard which was on the main street of the little town I lived in and, just to be obnoxious, I had it painted bright red with a white roof. When we were getting ready to move I have 5 or 6 folks wanting to buy it and, yup, I sold it for more than it cost to build. (LOL) Cy From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 7:42 AM To: Blind Handyman List Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Tin or galvanized It appears from most readings, that tin roofs are just galvanized steel. The process of dunking steel sheets into molten Zinc was called tinning. Do I actually need to determine if my roof is really tin, or just Zinc coated steel? After 80 years, is there any Zinc left or has it all been consumed by now? Do I just stop over analyzing this and go slap on some paint? I have now read about oil based paints reacting with Zinc, but am still trying to find out what the best solution is. I appreciate many of the suggestions, but one issue is that I need to be able to paint the roof red so that it doesn't stick out like a black eye in the neighborhood. I believe it would look stupid to have one silver or white roof and 19 red roofs around the courtyard. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
