Is painting sheds a waste?

mengele

Normally paint all the older sheds every 3 years or so. Obviously don't do the newer ones. I'm beginning to think its a waste of money as 3 years later rust is starting to show and they start to flake. Some of these sheets might be 30 to 40 years old.

In wondering would it be cheaper and look better to just replace the sheeting on a different shed every 3 years. At least the sheeting would be new then and not need painting.

How many years are the newer painted cladding lasting before needing to be painted for the first time?

wrangler

mengele wrote: »

Normally paint all the older sheds every 3 years or so. Obviously don't do the newer ones. I'm beginning to think its a waste of money as 3 years later rust is starting to show and they start to flake. Some of these sheets might be 30 to 40 years old.

In wondering would it be cheaper and look better to just replace the sheeting on a different shed every 3 years. At least the sheeting would be new then and not need painting.

How many years are the newer painted cladding lasting before needing to be painted for the first time?

We find it good enough to paint every ten years, we live on the approach road into a village that's entered in the ''Tidy Towns'' so have to keep them better than most.
They're cleaned down with a good power washer and painted with Castle Paints, The contractor puts about a litre of white spirit in 20 ltres of paint, he says to stop the paint flaking. Its difficult to stop the paint flaking on new Galvanise sheets but most here is over twenty years and seems to have stopped flaking, we've sheds here 80+years with original galavanise and were only painted for the first time in the 1970s
I haven't much painted cladding but have some twenty years and not painted since it went up