How to Paint your Wrought Iron Gate?
Wrought iron gates are one of the best choices you can make for your home. These gates feature in quality, flexibility, classiness and durability. They create a classical feel in outside areas and can bring a real beauty to any exterior, but anyhow most of the original Wrought iron gates will become dull within time. Even if these gates are very strong, their outside area alone needs to be updated from time to time.
A paint finish can keep any wrought iron gate from looking tired. Painting these gates aids them protection from rusting and give a great looking and long-lasting finish. On following the below mentioned tips, one can paint a wrought iron gate in an easy and more effective way. While preparing a wrought iron gate to paint, take note of the old surfaces on the gate that requires a fresh paint. Analyze the condition of your gate. If it is too bad, then you would have to paint the entire gate with 2-3 coatings.
Start removing the rust from unpainted surfaces. You can use a scrubbing brush for this purpose. Once you finish removing the rust, start to remove the old paint form your Wrought iron gates. Like in removing rust, you can use a wire or scrubbing brush to remove the old paint. You can also use a chemical paint stripper or sandblaster to remove the old paint.
Once you finish removing rust and old paint from your gate, you are ready to paint. Coat the Iron Gate with red oxide primer using a mini-roller. It would be better if the primer has a spraying mechanism. Coat the primed iron gate with an oil based enamel using the mini roller. Wait two hours for the primed gate to dry. By the time, clean your painting tools with mineral spirits.
Before painting the gate as per the desired finish, the newly cleaned and sanded wrought iron should first be given an all over coat of rust inhibiting primer in order to prevent further rusting of the new finish. After this gets dried of, you can apply a coat of metal point in the finish of your choice. While painting your gate, it is better to start from the top of the gates and working downwards so that you can catch the drips as you progress. One coat even could give a new finish to your gates that lasts for so many years.
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