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Swimming pool Nettie? If so the rim is going to be a high wear area!
I would wipe it down with "ESP" which is a solution formulated to make paint stick to ceramic bathroom tiles. Then use 1-shot enamels with "Penetrol" added. Both these products are manufactured by the Flood Company in USA and should be available in most paint stores.
I would then spray a 2-pack automotive clear, several coats. Don't know what USA brand names you have. But the harder finish the better.
I too would like to know a better solution than my suggestion
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The primer is the most important part. Check with your local boat supply or boat repair yard. Some of the auto body shops also do repairs to fibreglass (corvettes), so they may be able to help. As for top-coat a 2 part polyurathane is the best for gloss retention, wear and colour fastness. Some of these are brushable, just keep moving. Again, check with a boat supplier. There are two part epoxy's out there, but they tend to chalk in a short time frame.
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Fibreglass pool gotta be Gel-Coat and I personally can't see any paints lasting any long, lenght of time. OK, so maybe it will last up until the time it starts to desinagrate which will probably be more trouble then its worth in the long run, after all its not a painted pool. Gel-Coats are impregnated with color and between the oils in the mold release and the Gel-Coat itself I personally wouldn't go the painted program.
Preperation is everything when working with plastics and water, sanding is a must and down the road, a giant quagmeyer.
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Maybe this is really DUMB, but what about high performance vinyl?
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I'd have to agree with Joey. I've painted enough gel coated fiberglass to know it can be a real pain. He's right on about the prep. Just wiping it and laying on some paint is a failure waiting to happen. I'd go with vinyl, at least if it fails it's not that big of a deal to remove.
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Janette..I do a lot of work for boat repair/refinishing yards. They all use either Awl Grip paint or, to a lesser extent, Interlux.
As others have mentioned, prep is supreme. You WILL have to sand the surface prior to priming and between primer and topcoat. You might, for that reason consider a paintmask to avoid sanding "outside the lines".
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Thanks for all the information on this. I will give this gal the scoop here with all the precautions involved.
This was one of those calls, where she says she wants to do the work herself, (whew, thank goodness), and asks what paint to use. I told her I would try to find out for her. (I knew my next stop was here. )
She goes on to say she wants something unique and creative, but hasn't been able to come up with anything. I asked her what she had in mind, and she says "I dunno". So, I've pointed her in the direction of the bookstore to do some creative reference homework on her own, offered to scan in anything she comes up with, and will make her some stencils.
My reluctance to get too involved with this project is heightened by the work load I've amassed here since being in Quebec for a week.
I'm on overload!
My instinct is to discourage her from doing this, but I will convey this information to her and let her decide on her own.
Thanks again for helping me with these answers. Nettie
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I agree with Dave Grundy. Marine supply stores sell paints specifically designed for fiberglass / gelcoated surfaces. A "bootstripe" is the stripe right at the waterline of many larger boats. Bootstripe paint is available in small cans and should hold up well.
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She could use gelcoat, any marine store will have it and it's cheap. She can get the "neutral" color and a set of pigments to mix her own colors.
Wiping the pool with RapidPrep will crack all the mold releases, so that's not even a problem, it's just going to be a pain doing all that sanding through a stencil, although most fiberglass pools dont have a highly polished surface cause that would be too slippery to walk on.
Anyway, she can paint the gelcoat on with a brush, it has enough body to hold itsself in place on a vertical surface. She'll need to either mix some surfacing wax with the gelcoat, or spray a coat of PVA (mold release and gelcoat cure promoter) over the painted gelcoat once it has gel'd, in order to make it cure under exposure to air.
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