Let's see how to paint the refrigerator with your own hands.
How to paint the refrigerator at home? Such a question sooner or sooner arises in many who have a properly working old unit.
Although it will not look like completely new, the owner can radically change its design and mask the paint that has fallen off or the cracks that have formed. The article suggests getting to know what kind of paint you can paint a refrigerator.
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How to choose a paint
To paint the refrigerator at home, you must first determine the purpose of the painting.
It could be:
- Update used unit.
- Painting it in a different color, which will be in harmony with the wallpaper.
- To make a designer from an ordinary refrigerator.
After determining the goal, the paint is also selected. To update the shabby corners of the old refrigerator, you can use paint from a spray can, but a more reliable option is paint on metal.
Tip: Despite the fact that there are a large number of paints applied even on rust, you should first remove all old poorly adhering paint and degrease the entire surface.
What paint to paint the refrigerator?
There is no definite answer to it; you will need to choose from several options:
- To restore the appearance, the refrigerator is painted with enamel paintswhich are used at manufacturing plants for initial coloring of products. It can be:
- enamels in jars;
- automotive paints manufactured in aerosol cans. Their price is much higher, due to the presence in the composition of components that ensure the composition's resistance to atmospheric influences, which is of little importance for home refrigerators.
Enamel Benefits:
- good adhesion;
- durability;
- beautiful glossy shine.
The disadvantage of the coating is the rather high toxicity of the solvents.
- Epoxy paints. These pigments in their characteristics during operation are almost the same as those of enamels, but the technology of applying them to the surface is much more complicated. In addition, the cost of good quality epoxy is quite high.
- Acrylic mixes. This option is considered a budget solution for coloring the refrigerator. Their characteristics are inferior to epoxy compounds, but the safety margin and durability of the coating are sufficient.
The advantage of acrylic is the presence of a wide range of palettes. This is especially in demand, when deciding to give an original decor to the refrigerator.
Before repainting the refrigerator, one should not forget about the use of reducing compounds. This is necessary if there is rust on the walls of the product, which will prevent the development of corrosion. In this case, materials that contain aluminum or zinc granules, such as Zinga conductive paint, help.
How to choose tools for painting
After choosing a paint, you need to purchase the right tools.
It can be:
- Paint roller and brushes. In this case, the staining process will be longer, and the surface quality is slightly worse. However, the use of a roller and brushes, when using a thin decor, allows all the work to be done more accurately, without getting paint on the walls and floor.
- Atomizer (see We select a spray gun for painting). It is good to use such a device if it is possible to take the unit to a free open large space, or to completely protect the existing environment and territory from pollution.As a result, when using a spray gun, the coating will be a thin, uniform layer.
Tip: Nitro paints are usually applied from the spray gun, and for small areas such a device should be replaced with an aerosol can and painted as shown in the photo.
Paints can be sprayed with a spray gun to protect the metal from fire like Polystyl, but when restoring the refrigerator, their use is not always justified, it is better to use more suitable compounds.
- When planning the combination of colors to divide the plots, you must use masking tape or plastic film.
Tip: Do not use ordinary adhesive tape: the glue on its surface leaves marks on the refrigerator, paint will not work well on them.
How to color the refrigerator
Tip: Do not paint and touch the back of the unit, it can be very hot.
Before you begin, you must purchase:
- Paint previously selected.
- Rollers and pallets.
- Normal ammonia.
- Rags.
- Sponge.
- Duct tape.
- Special anti-rust agent.
Refrigerator painting instruction:
- Prepared by:
- old newspapers or plain paper;
- protective mask;
- gloves
- rags;
- detergent;
- paint;
- roller, brush;
- foam tube;
- ordinary tape.
- The unit is disconnected from the outlet.
- From it are drawn all the devices included in it:
- boxes;
- egg stands and more.
- The refrigerator is thoroughly washed with detergents that dissolve fat.
- It is better to unscrew the pens and other parts that are not to be painted so that they do not get dirty, and the paint in these places went evenly.
- Along the perimeter around the unit, newspapers or paper are laid out underneath it, which will prevent the surface of the floor from getting dirty.
- The level of the room where the refrigerator will be painted is leveled.
- The surface is inspected. If there are spots with exposed rust, they should be cleaned to pure metal.
- Damage to paint, chips, other defects of enamels, in such places it is necessary to apply a primer from the spray can.
- The places of transitions to enamel are thoroughly cleaned. To do this, use very fine sandpaper to avoid visible transitions, and for even distribution of paint.
- The primer is given time to dry.
- If necessary, a second, third layer is applied, which will level the surface.
- Before starting work on an invisible section of the unit, the correct selection of the color of the paint is checked.
- The refrigerator can be painted. Car paint from the spray will lay down well and evenly, the surface will turn out to be smooth, durable to abrasion. Paint is applied in a thin layer from a sufficient distance. Each layer should dry well. The entire process can be seen in detail in the video in this article.
It is better to paint the unit while standing. You can apply a beautiful pattern to the refrigerator panel.
To do this, an image is applied with a thin brush or the image or motif that you like is outlined. If desired, the finished unit is covered with car varnish, which will allow it to shine and pleasantly sparkle in the sun.
The refrigerator can be decorated. There are several ways to do this.
Vinyl stickers are glued on the surface. They perfectly mask defects and can perfectly transform the interior of the entire kitchen.
All recommendations for painting the refrigerator with your own hands must be carried out very accurately, otherwise the applied paint will peel off quickly, and all processes will need to be repeated.
