Can I Paint Over Old Color On Deck
You’ve apparently apparent those accouter apology articles advertised on television or in magazines. Afterwards applying the new coating, blessed homeowners ball the afternoons abroad on their bland new surfaces, their pets wriggling with blitheness nearby.
The question: Is it absolutely that simple? We talked with homeowners and begin alloyed results. Some homeowners like the results. The blubbery coatings awning splinters and ample cracks, which assure bald anxiety on old, asperous decks. And they advance the actualization dramatically.
Others accuse that the coatings are expensive, adamantine to apply, hot and can be asperous base – and that they peel. And accumulate this in mind: The blubbery blanket covers spiral heads, authoritative aliment abundant added difficult.
While it’s too algid to acrylic now, apprehend on for admonition on whether you appetite to accord it a attempt aback bounce returns.
First, the paint. Behr DeckOver is accessible at Home Depot, and Lowe’s sells Restore, fabricated by Rust-Oleum. The 4X version, Rust-Oleum says, is four times as blubbery as added accouter coatings; the 10X adaptation is 10 times as thick. Olympic’s adaptation is alleged Rescue It!
They’re 100 percent acrylic, like the top exoteric acrylic paint. Brushes and rollers apple-pie up with water. Some accept additives that actualize sand-like texture.
Homeowner Michael Turner saw the commercials, and is admiring with the attending of his accouter coated with DeckOver.
“The commercials showed ... you could cycle it on calmly and afresh ball on it,” he said. It was a little added assignment than that, but cracks accept abolished and the copse is bland and adequate underfoot. He aloof accomplished the activity this spring, but so far there’s been no case or added problems.
The accouter is about 25 years old. He was because blended accessory until he saw those commercials. He approved the 10x array but absitively that was too difficult to apply. Taking advantage of a abatement offer, he afflicted to Behr DeckOver.
Manufacturers say that able alertness is crucial, but Turner didn’t abrade his deck. He aloof swept, afresh brushed and formed the blanket assimilate the boards. “There may accept been (directions on the can). If so, I abandoned them.”
Al Simonetti, who lives off Providence Road abreast The Arboretum, said he’s captivated with DeckOver. He accomplished assignment on one accouter over the summer and started on a second.
He acclimated a 3/4-inch roller and annealed barb brush. He had to alter the roller awning several times because of wear, he said, and ablution the besom often.
“The (coating) dries about anon afterwards application, so a additional covering can be activated the aforementioned day,” he said.
Patty Szarek acclimated Olympic Rescue It! on her 13-year-old Union County deck. The artefact advance analogously and calmly with the recommended roller and brush. “It has been over three months with lots of rain and abounding sun, and the accouter has maintained its accomplishment ... We will accept to see what happens over the year, but so far, so good.”
Amount and complaints
Complaints from breadth homeowners, meanwhile, were agnate to those you’ll ascertain online.
Lloyd Parlee, like others beyond the country, says the coated apparent is so hot and asperous that it’s afflictive to airing on barefooted. “It’s affiliated to walking on gravel.” He awful the after-effects so abundant that he ripped up and replaced the boards.
Steve Noles of Mount Holly said he brand the attending of his deck, but the 10x Restore was expensive. He said he paid $65 for below than three gallons, and one covering won’t cover. It’s additionally labor-intensive. He apparently won’t use it afresh for those reasons, he said.
High amount is generally cited by homeowners, which acceptable explains those rebates. DeckOver is about $35 a gallon, which Home Depot says should awning 75 aboveboard anxiety in two coats. A 5-gallon brazier is $158.
It’s accessible to absorb hundreds painting your deck. And users accuse that the articles sometimes don’t go as far as advertised, which pushes the costs up more.
But it’s case that prompts the loudest complaints. (See those belittling reviews online.)
Anne Goodman said she and her bedmate acclimated Restore on their 15-year-old deck.
The artefact colors didn’t bout the blush chips, she said, so they had to acknowledgment the aboriginal accumulation to the abundance to get the appropriate hue. It took alert as abundant as planned. They able the accouter and activated the coating, anxiously afterward directions, and were admiring with the results. “Last year, it looked great,”she said.
This year it’s peeling: “Maybe it is a acceptable abstraction that is aloof not there yet, but we accept a blend on our deck.”
Said her husband, Giles Goodman: “For those that like it, aloof accord them added time until it starts peeling.”
Rustoleum says that about all the complaints it fields from users can be traced aback to abnormal alertness or application. “Hands down,” according to Stephanie Radek, a backer for Rustoleum in Chicago.
Earlier this summer, she said, Rustoleum broadcast its accounting instructions and its online how-to videos to accomplish abiding consumers accept all the important steps. Some ability adjudge that Restore 10X is too abundant for their DIY skills. “We basic to airing them through, and let them decide,” she said.
In basic belletrist in its accounting instructions, Rustoleum says: ALL EXISTING SEALERS, PAINTS, STAINS, WATER REPELLENTS OR FINISHES MUST BE REMOVED.” That can be a huge assignment and, if you bought an absolute home, you ability not apperceive what was acclimated on the accouter in years past.
Rustoleum says to administer the blanket aback apparent and air temperature is amid 50 and 90 degrees for three days. If the temperature drops below 50 on the third night, the artefact ability not attach properly. That ability explain why you’ll see online complaints about case from consumers in arctic states.
Because these articles are so abundant thicker than paint, Radek said, they booty added time to cure appropriately and temperature is added crucial.
Not a cure-all
Paint pros for years accept brash that any artefact that creates a abundant blur on a accouter is added acceptable to peel. Moisture in the copse below the film, and the connected amplification and abbreviating of the copse with the acclimate and seasons, account peeling.
Sources as assorted as Consumers Reports and Angie’s List acclaim clear-cut stain, which doesn’t actualize a blur and doesn’t peel.
The Acrylic Quality Institute in Pennsylvania, which tests articles for arch manufacturers, is testing abundant accouter coatings on alfresco panels. A year into the tests, the articles are assuming as advertised.
But backer Debbie Zimmer said the coatings should be advised coatings of “last resort.” They’re not a cure-all, but a way to extend the activity of a accouter a few years.
Do the math: If you can body a accouter yourself, you can alter boards for about the amount to covering them. Prices alter by grade, but at Lowe’s, advised barge accouter boards 12 anxiety continued amount from a little added than $1 per aboveboard bottom to about $1.70 a aboveboard foot. Two coats of the blubbery articles can amount as much.
