Painting an external soil stack

[dougindevon]

Hello Everyone,

I have a new external soil stack that i want to paint the same colour as the house (a light cream). I know plastic can be difficult to paint. Can i use the same masonry paint straight on to the pipe? would using a gloss as an undercoat be better?

Any advise would be great
thanks

 

[planemad]

//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=179885

See above, this should guide you.

 

[dougindevon]

this is for a gloss finish can i use the masonry paint to match the house colour?

 

[Zampa]

Masonry paint will probably be too brittle for plastic..you should be able to get an exact match in gloss if the paint is a british standard colour...failing that go to a trade centre and ask them to do a colour match for you

Then all you need to do is clean the plastic down with white spirit, allow to dry and apply two coats of gloss straight on..you could give it a rub over with some 320 or finer grade wet and dry paper but perosnally I dont bother

This the gloss out a little by about 25%