Painting our Narrowboat Part 2 - Painting with 2 part epoxy paint | EP52
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Following on from last weeks’ episode, we finish preparation, abandon work due to rain and get started on painting the roof.
Days 110 - 113
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I like the blue! The paint system info should tell you the surface prep requirements. 360 is usually too smooth for keying 2 pack primers that have been on a while. 220 is more like it and sanding marks will not show. The roller trays are a pain. Look at a paint pelican, either Screwfix or Toolstation. They have a place to park your tipping brush when you are rolling, they are a joy to use.
Thanks. I’ve switched to 230 for the sides and it seems better. I’m in 2 minds to park it until spring. I’m struggling a bit from boredom and cold
I agree, this is already late in the year for painting unless you are in a heated paint tunnel. The damp appears quickly on paint and steel in the morning and afternoon. Get the heater on and close up the boat and crack on inside!
Given the precarious working platform there would be no shame in changing gear and switching to a 1-pot enamel paint. A conventional paint would be more forgiving and likely give a better end-result. The staging looks too low to allow a good result on the cabin sides, perhaps delay this stage until post launch when you can then motor into a conventional floating paint shed. With a painted roof, stern cockpit, foredeck well and engine bay you will have eliminated most sources of premature spot rusting and the rest of the fitout can continue. If you do paint the cabin sides please work on 3 plank wide staging not 2 planks as shown previously, pro builders expect 5 or occasionally 4 planks when working on a house.
Thanks. I’ve asked the yard for more boards but few are available. The 2-pack has gone on the roof well and I’m seriously beginning to think your idea is a better option. I wanted to get the painting done so that I could fit external fittings without doing temporary fit. Painting a boat is very hard work! I’m ok with the staging. Im a little on tip-toes but ok. But am assessing risks all the time.
I think my main issue has been the temperature drop.
@@messinaboutwithanarrowboat I once worked as a brickies mate and found bricklayers are temperamental about height, they don't like laying bricks below knee height or above eye level. They know the only way to sustain hardwork for 8 hours is to make sure everything else is arranged to minimize effort.
Working on minimal staging is also mentally taxing, the danger is at the end of the day when brain cells are frazzled. I am hoping the next episode is not a live medical report from your hospital bedside showing multiple limbs in plaster.
Haha. Me too. As we say…”it will be fine….”