Steel stairs require painting

[tilburym]

Hi there,

We have had some internal steel stairs fabricated. They have been installed in our family room and go up to a mezzanine area. They are primed and ready for painting. Someone has suggested bridge paint as used to paint sydney harbour bridge. Has anyone experienced this or have alt solutions. We also looked at electrostatic paint but the cost was out of our league. The traffic won't be excessive so touching up scratches and chips down the track won't be an issue.

thanks
Matt

[Gaza]

yea syd bridge paint can be used but being inside bit of a waste as its expensive, you could you use normal aqua emamel or or oil based if you want a gloss finsh, the steel will need to be boged and sanded to get a good finsh, the raw primed steel does not provide a suitable finsh for high end project.

[tilburym]

Thanks Gaza,
That's good to know about the bridge paint. We'd prefer a matt or satin finish (I imagine satin would be more resilient). A sprayed finish would be preferred but again the cost of masking out the whole stairs from the rest of the room may be prohibitive. The current finish is very clean and minimalist very much like the attached pic.
85286

[Gaza]

we just did the timber on a set of stairs that went up 9 levels in the city, the painter just rolled it all using waterbased acrclic as it was a green star project and oil based was out of the question.

the finsh was great, ill look for a pic to post.

the harbour bridge paint as a silver flec through the paint, we had trouble getting a decent finsh on some steel bench seats we built a few years back took lots of coats with a day drying between coats