Painting a shipping container

[DCM]

Right, need some advice, the clubs shipping container needs a makeover to help satisfy our landlords. I have a compressor and a spray gun if need be, but need to know where to get paint from, cheap as possible.

Any advice?

[Dr Fly]

Probably a bit overkill to use a spray gun, last time i painted any serious metal (the unassembled framework for a 200ft x 100ft warehouse), I just used brushes and a roller. I also used red lead primer, which shows how long it is since i did any hard work. Apparently is now a bit illegal. We then used some random gloss paint which the company inherited somewhere

did a quick search and found a red oxide primer from screwfix which will probably do you well.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-oxide-primer-red-750ml/48712


The hardest bit will be prepping the container and getting rid of any old flaky paint. Let us know when you are planning to do anything, and i will come down and lend a hand

[DCM]

Cheers Tom, was thinking (if we can get water) of pressure washing it one weekend, that would remove flaky paint and then rollering it, but it would have to be green, red oxide is soooo 80's!!

[GRIFF55]

Auto paint st helens are cheap for two pack paints