Hello all, sorry I have not posted for a while, I scratched the lens of my camera so I could not take good pix . . . and only just now have fixed the problem. ANYWAY
Last April 2017 I was hired to paint an exterior staircase on an apartment building. The issue was, it was in rough shape– it had not been painted in at least 10 years, and probably more like 20.
This is the kind of peeling paint I was up against. OY! I tried everything else but the only option was to take a 7-in-one painter’s tool and scrape it off inch by inch.
So here you see the side of it, with the loose paint scraped off.
So anyway, I got all the paint scraped, and after I did the upper railings, i started on the surface.
So I am using a paint called “Deck Cover” which actually looks more like tomato paste. It requires a 4 day period of no rain– 2 to dry out, one to apply it, and another for the paint to dry. Plus it needs 2 coats, no excuses. You can see how beat the old surface was!!
Since this is an outdoor staircase I was concerned about the surface being slippery, SO . . . I sprinkled sand on the wet second coat, and it literally created a sandpaper surface which is great.
Another pic of the top landing:
It took months to get 4-day-long periods to paint in but today I finally finished it. Wahoo. What a difference.
