Want new paint job

[gregg62]

I have 45 foot cruiser stern , on grand union I want paint job done less than £100 per foot if possible , any tips or advice ? Don't need any fancy sign writing , just one colour ty

[Dr Bradley]

Do it yourself; for £100 pound total.

[matty40s]

I have 45 foot cruiser stern , on grand union I want paint job done less than £100 per foot if possible , any tips or advice ? Don't need any fancy sign writing , just one colour ty

you are probably looking at a professional job with covered paint dock,back to metal, full strip of windows and all other fittings for that price. You can probably get it done slightly cheaper with your single colour request.

Unless it is a heated dock, you are possibly looking at March at the earliest for work to start. Which end of the GU are you ??

 

Hiring a dock and doing it yourself is another option - you can probably half the price.

Finding a motorway bridge and doing it yourself will probably 1/4 your top price.

[mark99]

Yes beware doing it outside this time of year. Condensation, low dewpoint.

 

We used to have painting inspectors of the systems we applied to industrial external steel. They would only sanction painting in the painting season (the warmer months) and even then they used whirling hygrometers before even allowing the paint to be applied (to check dewpoint/ airbound mosture was acceptable).

[alan_fincher]

Do it yourself; for £100 pound total.

If you can even buy enough suitable paint for that, (or anything like that!), I'd like to know where.

 

Paint, and materials like stripping discs cost us a small fortune.

 

We also significantly increased the cost by hire of a (not particularly good) covered wet dock, but I would have hated to try it without that.

 

Such facilities seem progressively harder to find in our area - the one we used is no longer let out privately.

 

DIY is bloody hard work, IMO, and takes at least 3 times as long as you imagine it might.

 

(Obviously this highly depends on how much stripping down and prep, you do, also how much smoothing between coats. If you want the end result to look like a model of a ploughed field you can do it both quicker and cheaper.

[watershed]

£100/ft? When can i start?

[Kristian]

Phil Donovan, Pitstone wharf, heated drydock and £100 per ft............

[matty40s]

If you can even buy enough suitable paint for that, (or anything like that!), I'd like to know where.

 

(Obviously this highly depends on how much stripping down and prep, you do, also how much smoothing between coats. If you want the end result to look like a model of a ploughed field you can do it both quicker and cheaper.

Alan, you have seen Colins boat I take it....

[alan_fincher]

Alan, you have seen Colins boat I take it....

True,

 

And of course not all of us have access to the paint that our Royal Navy are throwing out because they no longer have many ships to paint, (as I assume he may have)!

[Dr Bradley]

If you can even buy enough suitable paint for that, (or anything like that!), I'd like to know where.

 

Paint, and materials like stripping discs cost us a small fortune.

 

We also significantly increased the cost by hire of a (not particularly good) covered wet dock, but I would have hated to try it without that.

 

Such facilities seem progressively harder to find in our area - the one we used is no longer let out privately.

 

DIY is bloody hard work, IMO, and takes at least 3 times as long as you imagine it might.

 

(Obviously this highly depends on how much stripping down and prep, you do, also how much smoothing between coats. If you want the end result to look like a model of a ploughed field you can do it both quicker and cheaper.

http://www.paintmaster.co.uk/index.php/product-range/13-specialist-paint.html

[lynalldisocvery]

Top link, im keeping that in my menu for when i get around to painting the land rover

[bigcol]

the enamel boat paint from Paintmaster is fantastic!

its the proper stuff they make paint for industry sell it in 2.5 tins to 25 litre drums

 

http://www.paintmaster.co.uk/index.php/product-range/13-specialist-paint.html

 

cost me £35 for 5 litres, roller it on, when gets scratched etc just apply another coat

 

col

[Starcoaster]

I used International ten year gloss for wood and metal, on Ebay at less than £20 for 2.5l.

[Pete & Helen]

the enamel boat paint from Paintmaster is fantastic!

its the proper stuff they make paint for industry sell it in 2.5 tins to 25 litre drums

 

http://www.paintmaster.co.uk/index.php/product-range/13-specialist-paint.html

 

cost me £35 for 5 litres, roller it on, when gets scratched etc just apply another coat

 

col

 

Which one on the list do you use? the "Machinery Enamel" ? or the "Skip Enamel"? (serious question . not a dig at your boat been akin to being like a skip)

[Dr Bradley]

 

 

Which one on the list do you use? the "Machinery Enamel" ? or the "Skip Enamel"? (serious question . not a dig at your boat been akin to being like a skip)

 

Not on the list but if you ask for narrowboat paint they know what you want. I felt I wasn't skilled enough to justify very expensive paint but am happy with the result. Not perfect but no ploughed field either, despite what Matty may say.

[JDR]

If you want a single colour paint job for much less than 100GBP a foot and are not confident to DIY I know someone that will do a decent job for you but probably not 'til spring.He has done about a hundred boats all told, about ten that I have seen and all have been very good solid jobs. That would not be a down to bare metal/windows out job but all paint on roof & sides sanded down and any areas of rust/pitting dealt with. Rustoleum shop primer as base and Rustoleum used as top coats, anti slip on Gunwalws/roof as requested. Pinstriping included but no signwriting. I can mail you pictures of his work but not until mid December as currently away from boat.

 

Cheers

John