I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

On Thursday, 15 October 2015 00:55:16 UTC+1, Jim wrote:
I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

yup, no problem


NT

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Jim wrote:

I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

yup, no problem

I remember internal glass doors which had been painted as though they
were wooden panels ... with people forever having to be warned
"careful it's glass"

in 1428944 20151015 081513 Andy Burns wrote:
wrote:

Jim wrote:

I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

yup, no problem

I remember internal glass doors which had been painted as though they
were wooden panels ... with people forever having to be warned
"careful it's glass"

The bathroom in my 1936 house is "tiled" with 12"x12" sheets of glass painted.

Bob Martin wrote:

The bathroom in my 1936 house is "tiled" with 12"x12" sheets of glass painted.

Heh, one of the student hovels I lived in had large mirror tiles, held
by double sided sticky pads onto peeling wallpaper ... the steam when
you had a bath made it "interesting".

Jim wrote

I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

Yes, but its not necessarily that easy to get it to look very good.

On 15/10/2015 00:55, Jim wrote:

I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

Yes. Classic signwriters do it all the time. The glass needs to be
grease free, dry and clean or you will have peeling problems later.

There are specific decorative glass paint formulations available from
hobby shops (mostly transparent).

Ordinary white gloss will stick fairly well to clean glass.

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Martin Brown

On 15/10/2015 08:56, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/10/2015 00:55, Jim wrote:

I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

Yes. Classic signwriters do it all the time. The glass needs to be
grease free, dry and clean or you will have peeling problems later.

There are specific decorative glass paint formulations available from
hobby shops (mostly transparent).

Ordinary white gloss will stick fairly well to clean glass.


Plenty of 100 year old paint surviving on glass, if nowhere else

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On 15/10/2015 08:56, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/10/2015 00:55, Jim wrote:

I'd like to do a simple (well in my head it's simple) job of painting
some white paint (not whitewash) onto glass can this be done?

Yes. Classic signwriters do it all the time. The glass needs to be
grease free, dry and clean or you will have peeling problems later.

There are specific decorative glass paint formulations available from
hobby shops (mostly transparent).

Ordinary white gloss will stick fairly well to clean glass.

Thanks for your help Martin and others