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Cleaning and Degreasing the Fence

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Wrought Iron Fence PAINTING Tips

What happens here

After sanding and protecting the area, clean the fence thoroughly. Use Krud Kutter degreaser cleaner, spraying it onto a rag and wiping down all surfaces of the fence. This step is essential for removing any residual grease, oil, tree sap, or other contaminants that may have settled on the metal. A clean surface ensures maximum adhesion for both the primer and the topcoat, contributing to the paint's longevity and appearance.

Goal: Ensure a contaminant-free surface for paint adhesion.

Tools and materials

  • Rag — Applying and wiping off the degreaser

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any type of grease or oil or anything on my fence can be used in crud cutters uh degreaser i like this as a degreaser cleaner or even a degloss or two so crud cutter right here i got some of that with me and that's about it when it comes to the tools and accessories so i've already got this sanded already took me about 20 minutes to sand that i'm just continuing right along gonna do the sanding and then we're gonna be doing some spot priming and then we'll start the spraying one of the big challenges with a fence like this and something you really are not going to be able to do in some cases here is the bottom of this railing right here paint in the bottom to protect that also one thing you can't see down there some places it's touching the ground and you can't get underneath there very uh um un-ideal how they did this fence built it that low and built it right over the top of the grass which is not ideal either but we just got to deal with that situation unfortunately so we'll just do the best we can in some cases we'll be able to stick a weenie roller under there and roll down there we do got some areas right here where the water has already uh eaten through the um fence right here because of rust so um you can see i've now i've got cardboard shields down along here i can do any spot priming now i wouldn't want to do any spraying but now it's good and protected to do spot prime and i will lay some drop cloths down on the opposite side just some spots down here on the bottom on these well joints that you know got a little bit of rust is kind of interesting because you know rust-oleum they've got you know two different primers ones for extremely rusty metal and ones for slightly rusty metal and i'm not quite sure um what is extremely rusty and what is you know slightly rusty i would consider this probably slightly rusty and so the top coat can actually be painted over bare metal or very slightly rusty metal that's been cleaned so but i'm just as a precaution i'm going to be priming this over this rust just to make sure i'm getting a really good good bond to it but down here on the bottom the others um these weld joints got just a little bit more rust than the other parts see this is down here where that the fence is down actually into the dirt so i'm not just a really kind of a bad case scenario but um we'll do the best we can to work around that so i've got everything ready to go got a rag with some crud cutter i'll be just cleaning it and degreasing it…

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