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Painting over indoor-outdoor carpet
We've got a screened porch (they call them Arizona Rooms here in
Arizona), and the floor is covered with that green "astroturf like" indoor-outdoor carpet. My wife understands that it is possible to paint over it using several coats of primer followed by a floor paint, to wind up with a different color and relatively smooth surface. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? Thanks in advance for any information. Northe Green Valley, AZ |
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On Jun 29, 11:55*am, Northe wrote:
We've got a screened porch (they call them Arizona Rooms here in Arizona), and the floor is covered with that green "astroturf like" indoor-outdoor carpet. My wife understands that it is possible to paint over it using several coats of primer followed by a floor paint, to wind up with a different color and relatively smooth surface. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? Thanks in advance for any information. Northe Green Valley, AZ You are joking right? |
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On 6/29/2008 11:55 AM Northe spake thus:
We've got a screened porch (they call them Arizona Rooms here in Arizona), and the floor is covered with that green "astroturf like" indoor-outdoor carpet. My wife understands that it is possible to paint over it using several coats of primer followed by a floor paint, to wind up with a different color and relatively smooth surface. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? To be honest, no, I've had no experience with this, but it sounds pretty crazy to me. Suggestion: if you really want to find out, get yourself a scrap of carpet and try painting it to see what happens. My guess is you won't be pleased with the result. -- "Wikipedia ... it reminds me ... of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." - With apologies to H. L. Mencken |
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On Jun 29, 3:12*pm, wrote:
On Jun 29, 11:55*am, Northe wrote: We've got a screened porch (they call them Arizona Rooms here in Arizona), and the floor is covered with that green "astroturf like" indoor-outdoor carpet. My wife understands that it is possible to paint over it using several coats of primer followed by a floor paint, to wind up with a different color and relatively smooth surface. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? Thanks in advance for any information. Northe Green Valley, AZ You are joking right? They did it on "Trading Spaces" one time, so it is possible. |
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Ron wrote:
On Jun 29, 2:55 pm, Northe wrote: We've got a screened porch (they call them Arizona Rooms here in Arizona), and the floor is covered with that green "astroturf like" indoor-outdoor carpet. My wife understands that it is possible to paint over it using several coats of primer followed by a floor paint, to wind up with a different color and relatively smooth surface. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? Thanks in advance for any information. Northe Green Valley, AZ http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tr...roject_06.html Anyone who has spilled paint knows that it would probably sink into fiber carpet. Astroturf is a whole nother idea - horrible, just to think about. I can't imagine why anyone would want to try, unless striving for a particularly unusual color. Indoor/outdoor carpet is pretty inexpensive, probably cheaper than the primer and paint. |
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: On Jun 29, 3:12*pm, wrote: On Jun 29, 11:55*am, Northe wrote: We've got a screened porch (they call them Arizona Rooms here in Arizona), and the floor is covered with that green "astroturf like" indoor-outdoor carpet. My wife understands that it is possible to paint over it using several coats of primer followed by a floor paint, to wind up with a different color and relatively smooth surface. Has anyone had any experience with doing this? Thanks in advance for any information. Northe Green Valley, AZ You are joking right? They did it on "Trading Spaces" one time, so it is possible. It's possible to put it on TV and make it look good for the moment. Reminds me of an old "$19.95+s&h, order before midnight tonight" commercial for thinning hair. Sprayed the guys head with some black stuff and combed. Suddenly it looks like he has a full head of hair. Looks good on TV where no detail can be seen and the test of time is zero. In reality I heard that it actually just colored the scalp to look good from an airplane. Up close it looked like the dude had a black helmet on...an ugly black helmet...a cheap ugly black helmet. |
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Painting over indoor-outdoor carpet
How about just ripping it out and putting in indoor outdoor sisal
carpet of your choice of color? Cats love it. It's one big scratching post. |
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Ron,
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tr...roject_06.html Thanks for that reference. I believe that my wife is convinced that painting is not the right approach. Northe |
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"Northe" wrote
Ron, http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tr...roject_06.html Thanks for that reference. I believe that my wife is convinced that painting is not the right approach. And forgive me. I didnt reply because i thought you were a troll. No one could really paint such a thing could they? |
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