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5.4
Re-touching your stove or painting your flue
If you are painting your vitreous flue to match the stove colour or touching up an area
of your stove there are 3 steps.
i
. Preparing the surface
ii.
Applying the paint
iii.
Curing or setting the paint
The most
critical step is surface preparation. The paint will adhere to the surface coat, if
there is rust, it will fail. If the stove/flue has a coating that is peeling, blistering or
chalking in any way, the topcoat will release in the same way. If there is
oil/grease/contaminant the paint will not adhere.
i.
Preparing the surface
a
. Remove all rust: sandblasting ,sanding or grinding. IF YOU APPLY ON TOP OF RUST the paint will adhere to the rust
and fail . A new stove /flue should arrive rust free, this will only
be relevant if you are renovating an old stove.
b. Remove oil, grease, contaminants. New flue can arrive with a chemical on the surface used during the
manufacturing process. We recommend the use of an acetone based paint thinner and that you key the surface with
fine sandpaper. This preparation is vital.
Trouble
shooting
Paint coming off in patches indicates a problem with surface preparation. The remedy is to remove the paint, prepare
the surface and start again
.
ii
. Applying the paint (vapour and propellant are flammable, avoid all naked flames and sparks)
a. Best results are
achieved when the paint, the stove/flue surface and the air temp. are above 18C/66F -
29C/85F. You
can warm a cold can of paint by running a hot tap over it for 2 minutes. DO NOT expose to flames.
b. Shake the paint for 2 minutes to thoroughly mix the pigments,
metallic and solvents
c. Do a test spay onto a piece of cardboard, the first spray can be mostly propellant with no pigment
d. Apply the first of 2
-3 light coats. The first coat should be a mist coat (it will look like dots on the surface). Apply
from 12
-15 inches, if you are too close the paint will drip/run, if you are too far away you will get a gritty finish.
e. You can apply the second coat after 15 minutes. The paint will be touch dry in about 20 minutes. We recommend
leaving it 4 hours before lighting the first fire, described above.
f. If you are touching up a stove be aware that there are minute variations from batch to batch of paint so you may
need to paint a whole surface to avoid these variations showing.
E.g. if you are covering a mark on the top you may
want to apply a coat to the whole top plate. YOU WILL BE COMPARING CURED PAINT WITH UNCURED PAINT SO THE
DIFFERENCE WILL BE MORE APPARENT UNTIL THE NEW PAINT HAS CURED.
Trouble
shooting
If paint peels/looks like shattered glass/comes off in thin strips, too much paint was applied. If the surface is gritty the
spray was applied too far
fom the surface. The remedy is to remove as much paint as possible, prepare the surface
and repaint
.
5.4 Re-touching your stove or painting your flue