Painting Lead

rampantbunny

House is built about 5 years but some of the lead work (which was apparently coated with patination oil) has a reddish tinge coming through. It's not a surface coating but something in the lead.
I'm thinking of painting it. Anyone done this?

AFAIK there's no specialist paint for lead so it's a case of primer and I've heard masonry paint used to finish.

KAGY

rampantbunny wrote: »

House is built about 5 years but some of the lead work (which was apparently coated with patination oil) has a reddish tinge coming through. It's not a surface coating but something in the lead.
I'm thinking of painting it. Anyone done this?

AFAIK there's no specialist paint for lead so it's a case of primer and I've heard masonry paint used to finish.

I used masonry paint direct when painting the house, lasted 5 years anyway before it got repainted when the was being done again. Surprised it lasted but it did

KungPao

Interested in this too.

Flashing on jutting out section of my house is looking shabby. Would love a way to may it look like new. Maybe some anthracite metal paint?

rampantbunny

Think I'm going to use zinser 123 primer (no affiliation) and get some dark grey masonry paint. Just off the zinser website and there's a howto on painting lead. I'm sure there's other primers that'll do the same job.

rampantbunny

KAGY wrote: »

I used masonry paint direct when painting the house, lasted 5 years anyway before it got repainted when the was being done again. Surprised it lasted but it did

It'd be surprised too with that performance but fair play to that paint. Don't think I'll risk no primer though.

The Continental Op

What I's do is use a 50:50 mix of oil based paint and Owatrol

It does a really good job on fresh galvanised finishes so guess it might help on lead.

Might even start with a 50:50 mix of Owatrol with aluminium primer that normally sticks to anything (except plastic) but not so sure about that?

rampantbunny

That product looks promising. Might be more targetted for metal than the zinsser product, although lead as a metal is in a class of it's own.

Question (off-topic); why would you use it on fresh galvanised finishes
Is the galvanized finish not good enough?

The Continental Op

rampantbunny wrote: »

That product looks promising. Might be more targetted for metal than the zinsser product, although lead as a metal is in a class of it's own.

Question (off-topic); why would you use it on fresh galvanised finishes
Is the galvanized finish not good enough?

I have a house with a green "tin" roof. Old corrugated galvanised iron. I replaced the worst quarter of it about 10 years ago and repainted it all with green oxide paint (the type farmers use on barns). I primed the new galvanised with a 50:50 mix of the paint and Owatrol. It lasted a good 6 years before there was any peeling but now it probably wants redoing. So done more for the look than anything but the old galvanised also benefits where its starting to rust.

karlitob

The Continental Op wrote: »

What I's do is use a 50:50 mix of oil based paint and Owatrol

It does a really good job on fresh galvanised finishes so guess it might help on lead.

Might even start with a 50:50 mix of Owatrol with aluminium primer that normally sticks to anything (except plastic) but not so sure about that?

Agree with this.

rampantbunny

karlitob wrote: »

Agree with this.

Which approach? 50:50 mix with oil paint, or with mixed with alu primer?