enewton had written this in response to
http://www.thestuccocompany.com/main...en-370714-.htm
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Thanks, HeyBub

It turns out the underlying screen is steel or aluminum, as you suggest.
What I am trying to achieve is a solid coating of paint over the screen,
sealing all the mesh. So it seems like I would use a fairly thick paint
spread thin on both the inside and outside, and probably a second coat to
cover and produce a smooth finished surface. I know that my neighbor's
window down the street has this exact effect, but have no idea what paint
or technique was used. If I screw it up, all the screening will need to
come out, which, of course, may be the end result anyway.

Newt
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HeyBub wrote:

enewton wrote:
A screen room outside my home has fixed plastic
"screens" that are
waterproofed by a thin coating of clear vinyl or similar plastic
sheeting. Portions of the waterproofing layer are flaking off,
exposing the underlying screen grid. I would like to paint about
30
square feet of the screened area with an opaque paint to match the
house trim, as i have seen done to similar screen rooms in the
neighborhood. But none of my neighbors know how the paint job was
done on their homes. I would expect to sand lightly to remove
flaking
plastic. What should I use for paint and how do I apply it to
both
the intact plastic areas and the porous grid areas where the
plastic
has flaked off?


Use some sort of vile chemical to dissolve the plastic. Then spray with
your
favorite paint.

In the era before aluminum screen mesh and convenient spray cans,
screens
were painted (and the steel wire HAD to be painted) with a brush! (This
was
even before rollers.) Sometimes the voids filled with paint so you had
to go
back over the screen with a toothpick to open them up.







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