[Rust] Restoring old chairs
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Strip the paint
Sand/wire brush/wire wheel off ALL the rust
Hit it with Rust-Oleum High Performance Rust / Metal Primer
Paint with your favorite exterior grade paint.
Are you going to reuse the wood?
Sand/wire brush/wire wheel off ALL the rust
Hit it with Rust-Oleum High Performance Rust / Metal Primer
Paint with your favorite exterior grade paint.
Are you going to reuse the wood?
That's some nifty old cast stuff. As Sam said, strip the paint and remove as much rust as possible. There may be lead paint in there so get a good chemical paint stripper going first. Once most of that's gone get a braided wire wheel going in a grinder and knock the big chunks of rust off. Wear a mask for the grinding unless you want potential lead poisoning from the residual paint and sinuses full of iron oxide. Coat with por and rustoleum or something similar.
Post pictures, I bet there's 15 layers of paint hiding some nice detail in that cast.
Post pictures, I bet there's 15 layers of paint hiding some nice detail in that cast.
You can pick up a real cheap stick sand blaster and bag of sand. Wire wheel will clean that up.
You can paint the wood or get pressure treated wood, if you still want a 'wood' look
You can paint the wood or get pressure treated wood, if you still want a 'wood' look
Doing new treated wood that will be painted to match decking around house. Sand/grit blasting would be ideal. I hand wire brushed, then wire wheeled, sanded a little and pressure washed. The outdoor paint I'm using is self priming thick and plastic. Once you put a couple coats of this stuff on it forms a layer that bridges bits that might want to flake off later. Was going to paint stripper them but paint stripper is yucky stuff.
Metal ends ready for paint:
The metal ends are more valuable than I realised. I'd thrown some out including a matching table a few years ago. Shouldn't have done that. I'm trying to scrounge some more local ends but they sell quickly. Aholes restoring them properly and selling them for much more.
After 2-3 coats I'm considering wet washing them with black into the crevices and then dry brushing with a light shade to highlight the raised edges. Like you do on a DnD mini.
Metal ends ready for paint:
The metal ends are more valuable than I realised. I'd thrown some out including a matching table a few years ago. Shouldn't have done that. I'm trying to scrounge some more local ends but they sell quickly. Aholes restoring them properly and selling them for much more.
After 2-3 coats I'm considering wet washing them with black into the crevices and then dry brushing with a light shade to highlight the raised edges. Like you do on a DnD mini.
That's ready for paint? You sure about that, hoss?Metal ends ready for paint:
p.s. That old wood green/brown benches is probably quality hardwood. Reuse it for something else.
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I was always told you don't paint treated wood because the paint wont stick
I wouldn’t use pressure treated wood on a seat my skin may regularly contact. Also PT is the worst grade of wood.
For the metal I would see if you can get it sand blasted..the wood just replace.
Nah. It really just needs to be dried out a bit, but that's ancient wood, so it's dry as a bone in that regard. And of course, use a good primer.
My wood eye must be tricking me then. Most of it looks like it could use a nice planer with the ends snipped off and be better than new.
Nah if you're to the point of tearing them apart for repaint, you might as well put some fresh wood on there.
You could put composite wood on their and it would last forever, but i think just plain ol wood will look much nicer.
Maybe you could do something tricky with a router though. Put some kind of nice rounded edge on the front boards or something
You could put composite wood on their and it would last forever, but i think just plain ol wood will look much nicer.
Maybe you could do something tricky with a router though. Put some kind of nice rounded edge on the front boards or something
Just make sure you're using stiff wood that doesn't give like plastic..
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