Sunday, July 5, 2015

Exterior paint...

I'm thinking about the exterior painting project.  I'm not a fan of green! :)

I know that I could spray paint it, but I don't have a good place to work (carport with 4 other cars) and at $5 a can, that's not a great price for low quality results.  I'm not a great spray painter.

I could buy the sprayer and borrow a compressor, but I'm not that skilled! :)

I've considered getting it professionally done, but the prep is the real beast and I know that I'd have to do that to reduce labor costs. I will check with my neighbor and some friends who paint cars.  If I do the prep,  it may be best to have them do the painting.

I've been reading about rolling it.  This guy seems to have the method I could copy.

This seems like a good method and one that I can do.  I like the high gloss foam rollers and the rectangular box seems a good candidate for this

I know that I want the color to be close to shell white.  This is the recommended paint to use and the colors available.

I think Hatteras Off-White 4218Q may be a good color match.  Maybe?  I wonder if I used the rustoleum if they can mix shell white for me?  That may be better.

Thhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOTvS1W1oPw&list=PLD3C44C37B14BB1FDis is a very thorough tutorial.

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