Deck Paint

[Ceirwan]

Will this one took a turn!

@ducked are you seriously considering tarmacing your deck? Or just being a contrarian?
You could go a step further like our local council & just chuck a bag of hardcore down each year, over the next months, foot traffic on the deck will compress it to a workable surface!

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Bitumen paint dries to a hard film. It's not like tarmac at all. Not very attractive though in my opinion and easily wears off.

 

[ducked]

Yeh

Bitumen paint dries to a hard film. It's not like tarmac at all. Not very attractive though in my opinion and easily wears off.

Rather a reasonable comment for this thread, surely?

While you are of course correct, id think if one adds sand or another particulate, it perhaps would become a bit more like asphalt (sp?) though I dunno if that would make it wear better.

As I said, Im mostly considering it because

(a) I have some
(b) Its quite cheap
(c) Most importantly, I THINK it should be easily removable with white spirit.

I was going to test it on the dinghy and bootstripe and maybe in the bilges (too dark?) first and probably leave the deck patchy for now, (which I can stand) but this thread has me quite tempted.

Just as well I dont have red washboards…

 

[Sea Change]

I've used bitumen paint on an old wooden boat. Horrible, messy stuff. But it soaks in to the timber and protects it.
It obviously won't do that on GRP.

 

[oilybilge]

I love this. The spirit of Old Harry lives on.