Tips For Painting Metal Furniture

With metal furniture, you deal with rust and chipped paint and rust, making it look cheap and dingy. But you can make it look fabulous again. Painting metal furniture necessitates the same technique used with outdoor furniture, making it the quickest and easiest way to update your home's appearance.

Steps to Painting Metal Furniture

1. Take the furniture outside. If you must work indoors, be sure you have enough ventilation by turning on the exhaust fans and opening all the windows. To avoid breathing in the paint fumes, wear a painter's mask. It would be best if you also put on rubber gloves and safety glasses.

2. Put the furniture on top of a tarp or drop cloth. Wash the furniture thoroughly to remove any dirt, grime, or dust.

3. Rinse and dry the furniture. Apply a layer of turpentine or vinegar to the metal furniture to get rid of any oil or grease. Allow the furniture to dry for 40 minutes.

4. Sand the metal if the paint is bubbled or chipping. With fine-grit sandpaper, sand the metal until the surface is smooth. Clean the dust off the metal.

5. With newspaper or plastic, conceal any parts you don't want to paint. Fasten the covering with tape.

6. Spray the furniture with rust-resistant paint or metal primer. Spray evenly with up and down strokes to avoid drips.

7. Allow the primer to dry completely. Since drying times differ, be sure to follow the manufacturer's instructions.

8. Shake a can of spray enamel paint and apply it the same way as the primer.

9. Let the first layer dry completely before putting on the second coat of paint. 11

10. The furniture should be completely dry before using it. Some metal paints take more than 72 hours to dry.

Painting Metal Furniture Tips

• General-purpose spray paints dry fast. They come in numerous colors for outdoors and indoors. Epoxy enamels and rust paints are rust-resistant and deliver durable finishes. Talk with a professional Rochester painter to help you determine which paint type works best for your metal furniture.
• Spray paint nozzles that dole out a fan-shaped pattern are excellent for big jobs where you have to apply paint over a vast area. Littler jobs typically require a customary round-pattern nozzle.

Contact Rochester Painting to learn more about metal furniture painting.

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