Ludwig
Hopeless romantic
- Location
- Lissingdown
As I cycle around I can't help notice railings outside people houses and there is always someone either painting or scraping the old flaky paint off and I have been scraping some old railings at my house and there is about 5 diferent colours from when they have been painted in the past. So I am thinking is it a complete waste of time to paint metal railings and it would be better to get them down to the bare metal and oil and wax them. Is it a waste of time painting wooden window frames and doors and oiling them instead because with paint you can't see the rot underneath and in some cases the paint will hold the moisture in the wood. If you look at a lot of properties the paint has flaked off altogether. I'm off now ...more scraping to do