How do you work out the area of a gate for purchasing paint?
Guess?

Metal, railings type thing.
http://twitpic.com/cegeq4
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On 26/03/2013 07:22, mogga wrote:

How do you work out the area of a gate for purchasing paint?
Guess?

Metal, railings type thing.
http://twitpic.com/cegeq4

It looks like square section bars... so measure the width and length,
and multiply by each other, then times by 4, then times by the number of
railings (28 in this case), do a similar sum for the posts, and finally
add say 25% margin for the fact you have lots of edges and corners where
you will use a bit more paint.

Failing that, buy a 250ml tin and see how it goes ;-)


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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:41:46 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

On 26/03/2013 07:22, mogga wrote:

How do you work out the area of a gate for purchasing paint?
Guess?

Metal, railings type thing.
http://twitpic.com/cegeq4

It looks like square section bars... so measure the width and length,
and multiply by each other, then times by 4, then times by the number of
railings (28 in this case), do a similar sum for the posts, and finally
add say 25% margin for the fact you have lots of edges and corners where
you will use a bit more paint.

Failing that, buy a 250ml tin and see how it goes ;-)

Yes they're square sections...
I spose if we buy a tin (£18 compared to about £30) and start on one
gate ... if we need to fetch another tin we can leave that til another
day and have one done.
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On 26/03/2013 11:02, mogga wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:41:46 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

On 26/03/2013 07:22, mogga wrote:

How do you work out the area of a gate for purchasing paint?
Guess?

Metal, railings type thing.
http://twitpic.com/cegeq4

It looks like square section bars... so measure the width and length,
and multiply by each other, then times by 4, then times by the number of
railings (28 in this case), do a similar sum for the posts, and finally
add say 25% margin for the fact you have lots of edges and corners where
you will use a bit more paint.

Failing that, buy a 250ml tin and see how it goes ;-)

Yes they're square sections...
I spose if we buy a tin (£18 compared to about £30) and start on one
gate ... if we need to fetch another tin we can leave that til another
day and have one done.


Get them sand blasted and powder coated and you won't need to worry
about painting them again.

Colin Bignell

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:50:52 +0000, Nightjar
wrote:


Yes they're square sections...
I spose if we buy a tin (£18 compared to about £30) and start on one
gate ... if we need to fetch another tin we can leave that til another
day and have one done.


Get them sand blasted and powder coated and you won't need to worry
about painting them again.

Colin Bignell


How much is that likely to cost and would they be away overnight?

(I assume there's not a spray van that comes and does them on site...)
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On 26/03/2013 13:59, mogga wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:50:52 +0000, Nightjar
wrote:


Yes they're square sections...
I spose if we buy a tin (£18 compared to about £30) and start on one
gate ... if we need to fetch another tin we can leave that til another
day and have one done.


Get them sand blasted and powder coated and you won't need to worry
about painting them again.

Colin Bignell


How much is that likely to cost and would they be away overnight?

(I assume there's not a spray van that comes and does them on site...)


When I had my garden table and four chairs done, it cost me about £40,
but that has to have been at least 20 years ago. This list suggests that
it would probably cost quite a lot more now:

http://www.triple-s.co.uk/prices.htm

As it needs an oven to cure the coating, it is not something that can be
done on site.

Colin Bignell