[Greenbuilding] Painting Old Steel Shower Enclosure

[Antonioli Dan]

I like the sound of it. Would be cool to find a stain-type finish to give the sheet metal some character. My main concerns are durability and making sure the product won’t off-gass when exposed to hot water. 

Dan


On Feb 17, 2017, at 5:23 AM, Lynelle Hamilton <lynelle at lahamilton.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan, 
> 
> Don't know as this would be attainable, given the size, but a have a friend who had metal kitchen cabinets that had really poor paint coverage. We stripped and sanded them and coated with a clear spar varnish. They're going strong after 10 years. They don't have the water exposure yours would, but the effect was striking when done. 
> 
> L
> 
> On 2017-02-16 11:01 PM, Antonioli Dan wrote:
>> What I was looking for is on point to my question. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 16, 2017, at 7:55 PM, RT via Greenbuilding <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> From: RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca>
>>> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Painting Old Steel Shower Enclosure
>>> Date: February 16, 2017 at 7:55:10 PM PST
>>> To: "Green Building" <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>, "Clarke Olsen" <colsen at fairpoint.net>
>>> Reply-To: ArchiLogic at chaffyahoo.ca
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:19:54 -0500, Clarke Olsen <colsen at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> > I made a shower enclosure from failed sliding door tempered glass. 
>>> 
>>> >  If you paint one side with metallic paint, the other is a mirror. Just say'n.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So Clark ... are you "just say'n" that  you like to watch yourself taking a shower ? (Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.)
>>> 
>>> Me ?  I once made a temporary outhouse using sliding patio door panels --  4 for the walls and one for the roof  -- three of the walls set (vertically) at one end of the roof, the fourth wall at the other end of the 80" long roof leaving a 44" wide breezeway between the  3-walled "business compartment and the end wall, set under the shelter of a crab apple tree.  
>>> 
>>> That left enough room in the breezeway for a two level granite (counter top cut-off) library reading table/(lamp oil-fired) hurricane lantern stand .
>>> 
>>> A glorious room in which to do one's business.
>>> 
>>> Moral of the story:    diverted-from-the-wastestream tempered glass -- a Green resource that does very well in a multitude of situations.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> === * ===
>>> Rob Tom T6015O
>>> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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