Painting - First Undercoat

Today the wooden boat disappeared under the first coat of International Pre-Kote undercoat and is now white. I had to stop periodically to add a little thinners to the paint because the temperature was well over 30 degrees C and the paint wasn't flowing nicely. While paused I took this photo.

 

 

You can see the remaining brown epoxy coating on the plank above the newspaper. The two piebald planks above that show the remains of a coat of AquaCote that I put on over the epoxy but ran short of by one plank! AquaCote is a water based epoxy high build primer. It does all the right things, it's waterproof, dries hard, builds a thickish layer and sands easily. What it doesn't do is to flow out level so it holds brush marks or an orange peel effect if it is rolled on. Maybe I am not clever enough a painter to avoid these problems. I used it because I had it left over from a previous job and to fill the hollows in the epoxy coat under it. It did fill the hollows in the epoxy but it took me a day and a half to sand it back to a flat surface without grooves left by the brush. Never again!

 

Here is the other side completed. The International Pre-Kote flows out nice and level and will only need a gentle rub with some 180 or 240 grit paper before it gets a second coat.

 

 

The dog likes the concrete floor because it is relatively cool.