"Mayayana" wrote in message


I've been using some PVC and vinyl lately in places
where water is a problem, but I'm ambivalent: It looks
cheap if it's not painted, yet I don't know how well
paint will stick in the long run.

FWIW...

I have five sets of steel French doors. All have phony muntins made, I
presume, of vinyl, maybe PVC, could be polyurethane. I painted all 17
years ago with Glidden's Porch & Floor poly enamel. All are still good.
I'm glad because they are a bear to paint. None of them are really
exposed, however, they are under roof leading to lanais and a screen
porch.


It's very furstrating. The products and their availablility
keep changing, and while oil paint is being phased out,
water base paints just can't replace them in terms of
either durability or smoothness of finish.

But you can clean up with soap & water!

I really don't get it...the good ol' boys in DC kill a superior product to
help the environment but everybody is still tooling around in cars
belching exhaust fumes. Catalytic converters or not, I somehow feel that
cars are way more deleterious to the environment than oil paint ever was.


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dadiOH
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