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20 Year Old Wrought-Iron Gates Maintainable Painting.
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Two conflicting points of view:Who is right ? Our double white painted wrought-iron gates bought second hand 20 odd years ago still look quite good against the green of the lawn and hedges after their annual bi/annual lick of whatever part cans of white paint I can lay my hands on. Being mindful of their age over the years I have in the past given the uppermost most visible parts a severe wire brushing down to the bare metal to create a "nicer" finish. However,when I "wirebrushed to the bone"I was horrified to see severely decaying iron , so, change of plan,for the protection of the good metal underneath,painted several coats extra over the wire rushed areas and then finished the rest off.There is probably 10 coats of paint on them now and on close inspection does look a bit weathered before this years coat within a week. However,my Mum wants all previous paint removed by paint stripper,wire brush,scrapers,wire wool,then a major wire rushing before primer paint then 2 coats of gloss ! I say this will take many hours and what's left will be too fragile and they only cost £20 anyway ! My method is to continue painting for the next 10 years to enable whatever good metal there is to withstand the winter elements . Opinions please .thanks A.B ers
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Unless you strip the paint entirely and clean up the metal and remove the rust it will still be there under the paint eating the metal away. The gates will just fall apart due to rust, probably in a lot less than 10 years. It will be time consuming but if you want to save the gate it is the only way. You say they only cost £20, but what you need to worry about is how much it...
10:01 Sun 24th Sep 2017
Unless you strip the paint entirely and clean up the metal and remove the rust it will still be there under the paint eating the metal away. The gates will just fall apart due to rust, probably in a lot less than 10 years. It will be time consuming but if you want to save the gate it is the only way. You say they only cost £20, but what you need to worry about is how much it will cost to replace them. That will be more than £20 .
Just painting them is useless, as I said the rust is still there under the paint rusting away the metal and it will not stop just because you keep putting more paint on top.
Just painting them is useless, as I said the rust is still there under the paint rusting away the metal and it will not stop just because you keep putting more paint on top.
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