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Painting or Colouring Epoxy Coating

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By Kevin Mayne - 8/6/2015 9:46:52 PM

Hello,

I have coated an outdoors wooden playhouse in easycomposites epoxycoating resin.  I now want to colour the coating.  Will a standardacrylic paint (eg Dulux weathershield) adhere to the existing layer of coatingresin?  Alternatively, can I use easycomposites epoxy colour pigment to mix with anew layer of the coating resin to provide colour?


Thanks for your help.


Kevin

By Dravis - 8/10/2015 9:23:45 AM

All the standard outdoor water-based acrylic paints I have used sticks to almost any clean dry surface..

(I had real trouble removing some from the inside of my new stainless steel outdoor sink -- )  That was on a wet surface!!

Grease and dirt will be the only problem .. Washed and lightly sanded epoxy is close to a perfect binding surface for acrylic paints.