So the priming/fairing/glass/etc portion of the bottom paint job went flawlessly.
I got to the part where I'm painting with Epifanes topside paint and pretty much it all went wrong. Thought it might be interesting to see what not to do, since we only ever see jobs going well here.
1) My wife asked to "help". Mistake. She was going to roll, and I was to tip. The first thing we found out is she is not coordinated enough to both hold a roller tray with paint, and use the roller. She dumped 1/4 quart of $50 yach enamel right on the garage floor, somehow missing the drop cloth.
2) She kept rolling and dripping the paint around the boat so she wouldn't "waste" the rest of the paint in the pan as it would dry by the time we cleaned up the floor mess.
3) She started rolling it on with a foam roller. It created a "skipping" effect in the paint as she rolled it on that I couldn't correct with tipping with the brush.
4) I used a foam 4" brush to tip. It didn't work and just smeared paint around. Switched to a nice bristle brush and then was able to tip out the bubbles.
5) She switched to a knap roller instead of the foam roller and that helped to get even coverage, but created a ton of bubbles that had to be tipped. It also sponged up about 1/8th of the can of paint, which is a lot to waste.
6) We ran out of paint because between switching brushes and spilling so much, we only had enough to do one and 1/4 coat.
7) She was stressed about messing everything up so she was just slapping it on heavy and the whole boat is just one runny unusable mess.
8) I finally sent her in the house, stopped everything and spent an hour and a half gallon of thinner cleaning up the garage. The lesson is not that she's incapable of painting, but that I have practice painting things over the years, and she's only ever done arts and crafts projects, etc. It's a different skill set.
Conclusion:
I let it dry and will sand it back down to the primer and do it myself with new paint. Ordered another $50 can today.
Questions:
Anyone know what the proper type of roller is for rolling this paint on? I'm thinning it lightly and that seems to help, but I suspect that the right roller would make things easier.
The paint = EPF-YE021750
EPIFANES YACHT ENAMEL #21 ORANGE
750ML 6/CS
ordered from Jamestown distributors.
- Shane
I got to the part where I'm painting with Epifanes topside paint and pretty much it all went wrong. Thought it might be interesting to see what not to do, since we only ever see jobs going well here.
1) My wife asked to "help". Mistake. She was going to roll, and I was to tip. The first thing we found out is she is not coordinated enough to both hold a roller tray with paint, and use the roller. She dumped 1/4 quart of $50 yach enamel right on the garage floor, somehow missing the drop cloth.
2) She kept rolling and dripping the paint around the boat so she wouldn't "waste" the rest of the paint in the pan as it would dry by the time we cleaned up the floor mess.
3) She started rolling it on with a foam roller. It created a "skipping" effect in the paint as she rolled it on that I couldn't correct with tipping with the brush.
4) I used a foam 4" brush to tip. It didn't work and just smeared paint around. Switched to a nice bristle brush and then was able to tip out the bubbles.
5) She switched to a knap roller instead of the foam roller and that helped to get even coverage, but created a ton of bubbles that had to be tipped. It also sponged up about 1/8th of the can of paint, which is a lot to waste.
6) We ran out of paint because between switching brushes and spilling so much, we only had enough to do one and 1/4 coat.
7) She was stressed about messing everything up so she was just slapping it on heavy and the whole boat is just one runny unusable mess.
8) I finally sent her in the house, stopped everything and spent an hour and a half gallon of thinner cleaning up the garage. The lesson is not that she's incapable of painting, but that I have practice painting things over the years, and she's only ever done arts and crafts projects, etc. It's a different skill set.
Conclusion:
I let it dry and will sand it back down to the primer and do it myself with new paint. Ordered another $50 can today.
Questions:
Anyone know what the proper type of roller is for rolling this paint on? I'm thinning it lightly and that seems to help, but I suspect that the right roller would make things easier.
The paint = EPF-YE021750
EPIFANES YACHT ENAMEL #21 ORANGE
750ML 6/CS
ordered from Jamestown distributors.
- Shane