Painting Outside Of Clawfoot Tub
Examine one of the feet and locate the nut on the bottom of it.
Painting outside of clawfoot tub. Therefore prime entire outside of the cast iron clawfoot tub with rust preventer type primer using a disposable brush. Remove the nut using a. If the outside of the tub has been painted use a paintbrush to apply a thick coat of paint stripper to the surface. Brighten up your bath and create a sunny vintage bath look by painting your clawfoot tub a tranquil pastel color.
After removing the claw feet and cleaning her up it was apparent that clementine s exterior needed a wee more help than we anticipated. It was hard to capture with the camera but it definitely needed two coats. The small roller is perfect for the sides of the tub however. Painting a clawfoot tub.
Give the outside of the tub a light sanding removing the sheen of the tub s finish. I also painted the feet with the chalky finish paint. Take off the clawfeet and any other hardware you can remove from the bottom. We turned her up on one end against the future wall of our master bathroom and gave her a good once over.
Lift the tub up off of the floor with the. Sand the outside of the tub. But it was a pretty sad existence as evidenced by the bathroom literally falling apart around it. We knew the upstairs bathroom was lacking a tub see photo below and we were trying to decide whether we would add a tub or just make a.
While wearing a dual cartridge respirator brush a. I could swear that i wrote a post about it about a year ago but now i can t seem to find it. We had just purchased the new old house but we hadn t taken possession yet so we were hoarding gathering furnishings and materials and selling our old stuff on craigslist. Using damp paper towels be sure.
By joe keegan on october 20 2010 at 11 29 pm. We ve gotten a lot of questions about how we ve rescued the clawfoot tub at our beach house so let s just dive right into what worked and what didn t and how we nursed this baby back to life. Primer adheres to the metal and also paint will stick to the primer as a good primer is necessary. How to refinish an old clawfoot tub.
Detach all plumbing from the cast iron tub if it is installed. The tub existed in the house when we bought it last october saturday will be our 1 year house iversary. There is a mountain of information about restoring clawfoot tubs on the internet. There were a few spots of rust begining near where the claw feet attached as.
How to paint a tub remove the legs and other hardware. Painting the exterior of our clawfoot tub. Video of the day step 1. How to paint a clawfoot tub have i ever actually told you guys how we found the clawfoot tub.
Yes this is what that bathroom looked like when. While we waited out the humidity that kept us from finishing our claw feet revamp we turned our attention to the tub herself. Once the stripper has softened the paint scrape off the paint and stripper using a 3 inch wide putty knife.