Overpainting metral bed frame

unfortunately not, no

I'm just going to have to spray it with the windows open and then leave the flat empty for 3 days - I'm not living in it yet

this frame bed, and a couple of chairs are the only pieces of furniture I have moved in

no problem, room will be completely redone afterwards

I'll have to do it twice in order to do the bit that standing on the floor

tim

Strangely this might actually be a real job for Hammertoe though. I used to find it was good at covering up dark colours. Brian

Of course with a hammertoe if its nicely dimpled it tends to disguise the runs. I'm not a fan of spraying such things myself, often painting it normally seems to work well enough, or did when I could see. Brian

You could just ilghtly sand it and maybe degrease, but do realise the original coating is generally a baked on powder coat, much tougher than any paint. And scratches of black on white won't exactly look good. You'd be better off leaving it black really.

If spraying, it will get onto everything.

NT

Wash it with sugar soap and brush paint it with Hammerite Smooth or cheap equivalent, and don't expect it to look brilliant. I'd just leave it black, nobody's going to care really, and you've probably got more pressing things to do. Or take it to your friendly local powder-coater.

Key it a bit with wet & dry, degrease with a solvent (white spirit or meths), when dry paint. I'd think you'll need an undercoat to go from black to white especially spraying (outside or garage/shed i hope ;-) )

Ah ok, plenty cardboard,wallpaper, old sheets whatever to catch the overspray then :-)

I think it'll take more than one coat, don't be tempted to spray more on "thicker" in one go as you'll end up with runs & it'll look s**te, or you'll have to sand the runs back and do it again (slower!)