Painting the Red Iron Framing
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- A little long but this was 4 days worth of work. I am happy with the results and looking forward to gettign this building wrapped in insulation and metal. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
Love watching the build process! I’m hoping to put up a building similar to this in a couple of years and it’s great seeing other guys erecting the buildings themselves!!
Appreciate that. Good luck with your build.
Great sprayer, I’ve had mine for 10 years plus
Newer Sub here. Love the Video on the Red Iron Construction. Considering doing one too so this is very helpful. Thank You Mark in Florida.
You are welcome sir and thank you for the subscription
In hindsight, easier to paint the metal building framing when the iron is still on the ground. Spread it out, paint before raising the building, and after erected, touch up any areas that were scratched, welded, etc.
In this case, plans evolve as conditions change and new ideas occur. Taking advantage of the delay (to attach sheet metal sides and roof, which needs more labor than available) to paint the frame is smart. Paint the frame before getting the sheet metal up, even after the frame is erected, reduces worry about over-spray, etc.
Most red iron comes primed, but not always (e.g. some I-Beams and other steel comes grayish in color, typically covered in mill scale and/or a very thin light oil). If not primed, best to use a primer designed for steel prior to painting. Always cover your metal frame with at least primer, if the steel isn't galvanized or stainless. Red primer is typically used to match the color of rusting steel, which avoids the cosmetic issue of small patches of rust standing out against the primed frame.
After the metal is primed, paint with any color. Once painted, you may need to go back and touch up some areas every few years to keep rust at bay (such as when dealing with a pipe fence or other outdoor steel exposed to the weather). If you're not willing to fight the rust, stick with red-iron (rust-colored) primer and ignore the rust later. Rust is typically only an issue where steel is exposed to a combination of water and air, such as metal out in the weather. Metal inside a building is unlikely to significantly rust in the early years so long as the building is weather-tight.
Painting the frame of a building gives a much more finished look, and adds years of additional protection before rust may occur. If you've got the time and materials, paint it.
Shockley - your painted steel building frame looks great, well done!
Great information and well explained 👍. I had wanted to paint before hand but no way to handle that big steel without renting equipment and I definitely couldn’t afford that LOL. So I did what I could when I could. By wetting the floor and then pressure washing before the sun could bake it in there is literally almost no overspray at all. Just by where the beams bolt to the floor that the cardboard did it quite cover all the way. Thank you for watching and hopefully ALOT more to come 😎💪👍
I'm fixing to put tin and insulation on my 40x40 red iron. Please do a little more in depth video on you putting up the insulation and r panel. I understand it will be more trouble to video and edit, but it would be super useful for a bunch of us. Good day from Texas.👍
Oh I am definitely going to video it. I am planning to do it in sections so the insulation can be covered at end of each day in case of rain. I have a great plan as of now and hopefully just me and one other guy can get it done. I am going to try to explain it as I do it and help others because I understand about how hard it is to find videos. Just the unloading video I made seems to me to be about the only one I have seen. Just wish I could figure out how to promote it LOL. Thanks and have a great day.
@@shockleybuilt4418 I will have to do mine in sections too. Have my girlfriend helping, and will need to cover any exposed insulation too. Maybe a big roll of 6 mil plastic to drape over the top edge and tape in place. Good luck, look forward to it. Definitely hard to get views and subs, but you are on the right track.