https://ift.tt/2VuOrC9 renovating my bathroom, I pulled out the old medicine cabinet that the wife wanted to replace, I said I'd strip it and see what the metal was like underneath as it was in decent enough condition, bar previous poor repaint jobs.Under the layers a stamp became visible, Hess of Chicago. From what I could find online it would have been made circa 1912, the year the house was built, so Im thinking it was original to the house, there was also a receipt for a bed from years ago from Chicago from that era. I'm in Canada.Anyways long story short, the cabinet is staying.I stripped and used a wire brush and wheel to remove all the paint and some light rust, basically down to the bare metal, and sprayed about 5 or 6 light coats of rustoleum self etching primer.That has cured for about a month and now I'm wondering what the next best step is before topcoat.I was all set to wet sand and paint but came across some info that recommended priming again with a urethane paint and then top coat so as the paint has something to adhere to.This info came from people painting their cars so I'm wondering if this is over kill for a medicine cabinet.I was going to paint the inside white with tremclad for durability and the exterior and inside of the door with painter's touch royal blue.I know painter's touch isn't urethane based but would it be sufficient for the top primer or should I just go ahead and wetsand and topcoat as planned originally?I want able to find tremclad in the colour I wanted for the exterior so would the painter's touch in blue be durable enough for something that will be used every day? via /r/DIY https://ift.tt/2EwJr9p
