We've got a black plastic 6" downpipe on the outside of the house. /She/ wants it painted, preferably to match the rest of the house. How do you paint that stuff? I'd expect ordinary paint to just run off.
Andy
Bedec paint:
Don't do it! You would be making a rod for your own back.
Solvent based paint works.
Clean it off properly with water and a few drops of detergent, then when it's dry with white spirit, let it dry thoroughly, and go straight on it with a solvent-based gloss (e.g. Dulux).
I've used ordnary gloss paint. 40 years on, It could do with repainting.
Vir Campestris expressed precisely :
I used a cheap outdoor black metal and wood gloss paint from Lidl around four years ago, on all of my exterior pipes. I had a mix of black sewer pipes, grey and white from baths and sinks. They were all rather faded. I just cleaned them down, tidied up any loose ones and painted them all black. They still look freshly painted.
About 10 years ago I had a professional painter in to repaint the woodwork on the north facing outside of my house. He took it into his head to do the black plastic guttering and downpipes at the same time. Looks bloody awful now, going to be cheaper just to get it replaced with new black plastic rather than clean off the old stuff.
I painted my black downpipes white with a solvent based gloss 30 years ago and they still looked good until touched up a couple of years ago when the whole front of the house got a major makeover (paint wise).
First of all find the lyrics/listen to the song for suburbia "My pink half of the drainpipe" by sadly missed performer Vivian Stanshall . For a comic, extremely fitting way to die, he managed to set fire to his chest hair , smoking while drunk.
6" ??. Big downpipe. How big is your roof area ?
It's a soil pipe.
We don't have gutters, the house is thatched.
The pipe went in when we went all 20thC and installed a toilet upstairs.
Thanks all
Andy
Oddly, PVC is very easy to paint. Just make sure it is clean, and use the oil based top coat direct. It will last longer than 'properly' painted wood in the same location.
ah, but surely it will be a 110mm pipe, so 4+ inches ?
<fx shrugs> ICBW.
Andy
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