Very nice, beautiful color. It no longer looks like an eyesore. I've followed you from the beginning and you've really come a long way. Someday when you're finished, paint the sides with another nice Caribbean color. Me and my best girl will be there again in August. It will be our forth time. I'm looking forward to meeting you. I'd like to pick your brain and learn some things. Dinner will be on me at The Landing. I do all my diving at Sweet Bottom. Look forward to seeing you soon. Once again, nice job!
Hopefully you washed the salt off of it with fresh water, brushed it, and washed it again, let it dry before painting it? Otherwise there is a salt layer (clearly evident from all of the corrosion / battery effect between the metal types) that won't permit the paint to stick. It will all bubble and start to slide off in the next rain storm or three. Once a bit of water gets behind the paint, there is no stopping it. You know you cleaned the surface enough when you can lick the wall and not taste salt. Seriously. That is how the locals do it. And you can't wash it one day and paint the next, because the salt spray puts the salt right back within hours. Park a car there and see how fast the a clear windshield gets cloudy, covered in salt. You have to wash a small section, and then wash another small section while the first is drying, then go back and paint the first while the second is drying. Then paint the second. Then paint a second coat on the first, then paint a second coat on the second. Repeat with small sections over and over again till done. You shouldn't just wash and paint one large section. If not, Oh well. You will be scraping, peeling, and washing and painting it again. And again. And again. And you can't just throw the stripped paint into the ocean, either,. Right? By the looks of it, if you don't hurry and then stay on top of it, that ocean is going to eat your crates before you can even use them. Every wave, big or small, is a claw grabbing at it 24/7/365. Nature has all the time in the world to win. It will only get worse once there is power there constantly, then it is just a giant anode and cathode linked by salty humidity. And paint won't be able to stop that.
Very nice, beautiful color. It no longer looks like an eyesore. I've followed you from the beginning and you've really come a long way. Someday when you're finished, paint the sides with another nice Caribbean color. Me and my best girl will be there again in August. It will be our forth time. I'm looking forward to meeting you. I'd like to pick your brain and learn some things. Dinner will be on me at The Landing. I do all my diving at Sweet Bottom. Look forward to seeing you soon. Once again, nice job!
Siding is not done yet so it will look even better by end of the year.
Door color is nice
Hopefully you washed the salt off of it with fresh water, brushed it, and washed it again, let it dry before painting it?
Otherwise there is a salt layer (clearly evident from all of the corrosion / battery effect between the metal types) that won't permit the paint to stick. It will all bubble and start to slide off in the next rain storm or three. Once a bit of water gets behind the paint, there is no stopping it. You know you cleaned the surface enough when you can lick the wall and not taste salt. Seriously. That is how the locals do it.
And you can't wash it one day and paint the next, because the salt spray puts the salt right back within hours. Park a car there and see how fast the a clear windshield gets cloudy, covered in salt.
You have to wash a small section, and then wash another small section while the first is drying, then go back and paint the first while the second is drying. Then paint the second. Then paint a second coat on the first, then paint a second coat on the second. Repeat with small sections over and over again till done. You shouldn't just wash and paint one large section.
If not, Oh well. You will be scraping, peeling, and washing and painting it again. And again. And again. And you can't just throw the stripped paint into the ocean, either,. Right?
By the looks of it, if you don't hurry and then stay on top of it, that ocean is going to eat your crates before you can even use them. Every wave, big or small, is a claw grabbing at it 24/7/365. Nature has all the time in the world to win. It will only get worse once there is power there constantly, then it is just a giant anode and cathode linked by salty humidity. And paint won't be able to stop that.