Hmm, most interesting indeed. I purchased an old house (1915 ventage) and it came with a garage which was made entirely of tin. I do not know when the garage was built but it had been painted all white. All of the timber in the garage was completely rotted out. The poor old thing looked as though it could fall over at any moment but when we made an addition to the house the garage had to go.
They had an awful time tearing down the garage as it was extremely well glued together - by the paint. I think there is probably something to be said about the oil based paint and galvenized metal. (LOLLOLLOL) Cy, the Anasazi (LOLLOLLOL) t From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 6:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Painting a tin roof. Jeff, Thanks for the input. If oil based paints are not to be used on galvanized metal, what would they have used 80 years ago? I believe that water based paints weren't around that long ago. Nothing I read so far mentioned this problem with Zinc and oil based paints. although I just found a page on Sherman Williams that mentions the problem. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
