painting plastic

waterbaby

I was going to put this in the gardening section but it's not actually about gardening so here seems better.I want to paint a plastic plant pot for use outside, and I am having trouble working out what sort of paint I need, and if I need to do anything else eg primer or varnish etc.Any advice would be much appreciated.

JOel_2

Acrylic paint should be ok, it the plastic is smooth you may need to roughen it up with a bit of sand / glass paper. I'd probably give it a coat with some clear laquer after also, just to make it more hardwearing.

-Joel

weekendwarrior

When painting plastic down pipes and gutters it is the norm to just apply two coats of gloss paint ( Dulux recommend this ).

I would guess that your pots could be painted in a similar way.

misgrace

I agree with WW, you dont have undercoat plastic, just straight forward gloss, that what you do with plastic drainpipes, so I expect the same applies to pots.

ormus

http://www.plasti-kote.co.uk/Product/pcode---4427

not cheap but very good for plastics. get it at BQ etc...

waterbaby

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