How To Paint Metal or Aluminum Windows. Painting Aluminum Windows.

This is Chris in Boise. In this video, we're going to be showing you how we take these faded anodized bronze windows and make them look brand new again prior to painting. So, the beginning of this process to make these windows look brand new. Again, we're using Kryon. We're using Kryon metallic, a satin oil rubbed bronze finish. And we're going to be masking off the windows with 1 in 2020 tape and 9-in paper. And then we'll be spraying multiple coats of this Kryon on the windows. And after the windows are done, we'll be pulling the masking off. And then the next day, we'll be masking to spray the body and roll the window trim. This video we're going to show you how to prep this window right here. We're going to be painting the anodized bronze on here. It's really faded. So, I'm going to show you how to get this window prepped and ready to spray with the kryon pans. So, give you masking with 2020 1 in tape and 9 in paper. I'll make sure that masking is really tight to the edge so nothing bleeds through to the glass. If anything bleeds through to the glass, we use just a little fine razor blade and we'll clean the glass when we're all done. Now the windows all mass paper's tack down. Just take my 3M medium sanding sponge. Just rub it over. There we go. Don't have to put very much pressure. Just a little bit of pressure. Now it's scuffed up. Just going to dust it off with a just an old duster brush. And those ready to spray. And I'll get a can of Kryon. I'm going to spray one coat of Kryon to see how it actually sticks. If there's any fish eye or any problem areas that are going to need to be sanded more or primed. Now you can start to see look at it closely and see if there's any fisheye. There's a couple little spots fisheying on the seal and the rest of it looks pretty good. And I'll just sand those little fish eyes. spray some red primer, Rustoleum primer on it and then I'll begin my final coats. Those areas that have fisheyed, I've now sprayed a red Rustoleum primer on those areas to after sanding it to stop that fisheying. And then I'll go back and recote them with my oil rub bronze kryon again. Respraying the third and final coat on this window. After we spray this third coat, we'll let it dry and then we'll pull off the masking. There's the third and final coat. We get out and look close at it. And This window's had time to dry now. And we're going to pull this masking off. We got the masking all pulled off. and there's any paint that bled through the tape, we would just use a razor blade to scrape it off. But nothing bled through. The lines are nice, nice and crisp, so we don't need to clean it off. But if you did, if you got any bleed through, it'll actually clean off easily with this razor blade. It's Chris Boise. How to turn anodized bronze windows that have been faded back to looking new again.