{"id":613,"date":"2012-06-10T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/?p=613"},"modified":"2012-06-10T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T20:11:12","slug":"preparation-for-painting-and-decorating-galvanised-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/preparation-for-painting-and-decorating-galvanised-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation for painting and decorating Galvanised iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Preparation for painting and decorating Galvanised iron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re likely to find galvanised iron used as corrugated iron roofing, gutters and downpipes. The zinc coating on galvanised iron is to some extent &#8216;sacrificial&#8217;, so that if a small patch becomes damaged, the surrounding zinc will, in time, spread over to cover the damage. <\/p>\n<p>But this weakens the coating and an application of paint will prolong its life. If the galvanising is new and bright, simply clean it with a rag dipped in white spirit or turps to remove any grease, and apply a calcium plumbate primer. If it&#8217;s old and greylooking, first remove any existing paint by rubbing lightly with a wire brush, trying not to scratch the surface. Then clean with white spirit or turps and apply zinc chromate primer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation for painting and decorating Galvanised iron You&#8217;re likely to find galvanised iron used as corrugated iron roofing, gutters and downpipes. The zinc coating on galvanised iron is to some extent &#8216;sacrificial&#8217;, so that if a small patch becomes damaged, the surrounding zinc will, in time, spread over to cover the damage. But this weakens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}