Painting
Painting
100% acrilic latex house paint over a porch and deck base coat works great.all good quality house paints come with 15-20year guarantee's.they are used under all climatic codition's.i have used them on wood,steel and fiberglass boats.they work.i always thought the marine enviornment called for only a marine paint.wrong!100% acrilic latex paint is equal to or superior in many ways to marine paints.plus its relatively inexpensive,and easy to work with.
Brian Leibow....lbrian@uswest.net
You are right that marine paints are not the only paints that can be used in a marine environment. Most of the problems with paint in marine use is in the preparation of the hull, and the application processes used. I must say however, that in my experience I have never found an acrylic paint that has been wholly acceptable for outside use of any kind, let alone in a marine environment. Bearing in mind the cost and problems involved in correcting any mistake, I prefer to stick to proven processes.
Colin Brookes...colb@xtra.co.nz
