What is the best & easiest ways to paint Grills, also ours are very rusty in parts.

Wendy x

Our neighbours used a paint for metal and a small paint brush to get into all of the grooves, painstaking but the grills look good.

Rosemary

Mornin Wendy, are you talking about window grills..(Rejas) or something else ?

Normal painting method would be, get a small wire brush and brush off all the loose paint and rust, back to bare metal if that loose.
If some of the paint is still left shiny you have to key that with emery paper to get ride of the shine ( so new paint can stick).

get some metal priming paint and touch in all area's of bare metal.

when that's dry paint the whole grill with a decent metal paint( it may need two coats).

If the grill is loose and moveable you can prepare it the same way and then spray paint it making sure you mask anything around it from spray drift....good luck..BB

Or the easiest way...give a Spanish painter a few days work...

I was in Wembley market a few weeks ago, topping up my spices and pickles, great atmosphere, changed a bit from the old days.

Painting girls seems to be easy enough...what do you need to know?

What I need to know is the easiest way as grills are very time consuming to paint, also can you get KURUST here as the rust will have to be treated first

Being a Pensionista I can't afford to get someone in to do it.

Wendy x

Wendy unfortunately there is no easy way to do grills...wait till it cools down a bit and look on it as a nice relaxing theraputic job...failing that let the buggers rust...mui rustico..

Bigbhudda69, I wish I was back in Wembley, I miss the comfort of my old house & the great neighbours I had.

Wendy x

Just use Hammerite, no rust proofing needed, it's certainly cheap enough here.

Thanks Mike, not looking forward to doing it at all. I have bought some OXIRITE in white.

My grandparents lived in Lincoln, their house was in Yarborough Road, my grandfather was a tailor & his shop was in Silver Street.

Sorry for the thread drift.

Wendy x

Have you not heard of shabby chic?? leave them to rust away merrily safe in the knowledge you are being trendy.

Being something of a lazy git, I always look for the easy way to do those things that need doing but I'd rather not. My gift to you tonight is one such labour saving solution.

Get a car wash mitt, an old one would be ideal, a rubber glove and more paint than you'd normally need.

"Can you tell what it is yet?

Put on the rubber glove, put the wash mitt on the same hand. Dip palm in paint, and squeeze off the excess. Grab the " rod" and slide hand back & forth.

It won't be a Sistine Chapel job, but it will make the work alot easier.

Have a good read of the tin before you buy any paint in Spain.
I bought some metal paint with an anti rust inhibitor, and it was only later that I discovered to my cost that if a second coat was needed, it had to be applied within 2 hours, otherwise it would lift off the first coat

Is that not quite common with paints for metal? I thought the other option was to leave it 48 hours or so until the first coat has fully cured?

Could be talking rubbish, but that's what I thought?