Painting Vinyl Shutters

[Salty]

Am I wasting my time even thinking of doing this? The shutters were originally a beige color and someone had painted them white. That paint is pealing so it would have to be removed. I'd like to paint them a dark blue color which would probably take several coats. Is there a paint or a paint prep that would work well on these?
One of my concerns about removing the old paint is that anything strong enough to lift the paint may ultimately disolve the plastic.

TIA

Dale

[gsmittle]

Am I wasting my time even thinking of doing this? The shutters were originally a beige color and someone had painted them white. That paint is pealing so it would have to be removed. I'd like to paint them a dark blue color which would probably take several coats. Is there a paint or a paint prep that would work well on these?
One of my concerns about removing the old paint is that anything strong enough to lift the paint may ultimately disolve the plastic.

TIA

Dale

Hrmmmmmm...... I would think that scraping the loose paint and then sanding everything so the vinyl has a little "tooth" for the paint to grab would do the trick.

I've also heard good things about CitriStrip (?). Should be mild enough for vinyl, but I've never tried it.

OTOH, I've never tried painting vinyl, so I could be totally wrong on this.

g.

[WayneJ]

There is a paint made just for painting plastic. I can't remember the name,I think rust-o-lium makes it, in a spray can. I know i've seen it at HD.
Wayne

[Salty]

Thanks all.
Scaping them is out of the question...at least for me. Way too much time spent on something so useless. If I had my way there would be no shutters....but that's not the final work of course.
That paint Wayne is called Fusion. I tried that one day trying to get some old plastic chairs to look new. I used an entire can on 1 chair and it still didn't look good. I'd have been better off taking the $6 for the spray and buying a new chair.
If I paint them it will have to be something that I can brush on.

[wbsettle]

Are they the solid body type or do you actually have slats? We have the solid type, can't imagine trying to paint the slatted type with a brush/roller.

I took ours down and simply power washed them...couldn't really tell if they'd been previously painted or if the white styrofoamy flakes that came off were UV deteriorated vinyl. We then just rolled on 2-3 coats of Benji-Moore (Heritage Red, I think), no primer...looks great a year later.

-Brent

[JoeyGee]

Very timely question--I get to paint our shutters this weekend. I'm in the same boat as you...I could care less about the shutters and think they look fine how they are--LOML just doesn't like the color. I lost that fight (who was I fooling even arguing about it, anyway?) so this weekend I will be taking them down and rolling on Sherwin Williams paint--whatever kind they recommended. I don't even know what it is, LOML picked it up. The deal is, if it doesn't work or she doesn't like the color, she re-paints them--I know, why do I even bother thinking SHE will re-do them?

[doogus]

Paint That Vinyl

You can paint the vinyl. It was many years ago that I put PVC gutters on the house. I painted them with a special paint (brushed on) that then allowed me to paint the gutters with the house trim paint.

I recently wanted to paint my wall switches to match my walls in the living room. I bought a paint at Home Depot (Zinnzer?) that bonds to plastic and then allows you to use regular paint. I brushed on the special paint.

[mikebanks]

Painting shutters.

Pressure wash them. If you have one. Remove as much as you can with the pressure washer.

You can use a clear primer like "Peel Stop" and prime them.

Spray on a Vinyl Acrylic. Satin finish. Two coats.

My two cents from a painting contractor.

let them sit overnight, but not in the rain. rehang them.