Thank you Monday paint team and Task team Tuesday for your help this week! We got some more painting done and organized a couple of the shelves. We made 3 piles SELL / KEEP / DONATE- and started a stack of things that need assembled and will need a dumpster pile. PLEASE (this is for ALL of us) do not bring anymore items into the space at this time. I know some of us our holding items to bring in until we are ready for them (Thank you!) keep in mind we still have church storage to unpack... We love the outpouring of giving but we are getting ready to go into construction and need to minimize our donation items to water and greenery only. Thursday, I will open the gate at 4. If anyone would like to come out and help with our assembly (screws/screw drivers?) and organize shelves/piles it would be greatly appreciated! We will start our new Spirit Lifestyle series at 6 and open up for prayer afterwards. If anyone feels an urge to paint, we can do that too. 😃 love you all!! ❤️ blessings! 🙌🏼 oh also... we have dining chairs that need painted. If interested in volunteering to take them home to paint and return, please see myself or Rick.
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Professional tips for painting the chairs
- Wash the chairs with a cleaner like TSP.
Sand lightly, with a 180 grit sandpaper, to de-gloss the finish. This will give the paint a surface to stick to.
Prime with Kilz or something like that, maybe a spray can primer.
Paint them with an “oil base paint”, spray paint is okay, but you want it to be glossy or semi gloss, not flat. If you use flat you will never get it clean after finger prints are on it, a glossy black paint will be easier to clean.
Other tips, if you are using a paint sprayer, it has to be a paint specifically made for trim and doors not just regular wall paint for inside.
Recommendations
Sherwin Williams makes a product called Emerald, it’s a semi gloss and it’s a urethane trim enamel and it dries really hard (not sure if they can make it in black)
Benjamin Moore also makes a water born alkyd enamel, it’s basically an oil paint but it’s suspended in water and it dries really hard as well.
I can take chairs home to paint. I have a paint sprayer and it paints quickly.
I would lightly sand the chairs before painting! It will help the paint to stick!