Question from zebra
hi ,
I too have Mcs. I have searched your site and only found one reference to ecospec paint . was wondering about the quality and durability of it, and also if people were able to handle the odor.
we are painting steel metal ceiling beams and metal panels on the side of a staircase. we are having to use a primer for metal. we first used AFM’s metal primer paint that is specked for metal and want to let everyone know that it was terrible, caused rusting quickly. i spoke with another longtime distributor of AFM who also had the same result, rusting. FYI , this is for ferrous metal or steel which is tougher to paint . AFM’s site said their metal primer would work on ferrous metal but it clearly didnt.
we finally chose sherwin williams procryl universal primer for metal. has some ingredients i am not happy with but i couldnt find anything better in a water based metal primer. if anyone knows of anything else would be curious. the odor aired pretty quickly on my sample. we need to paint over the primer and am looking at mythic and or ecospec. does anyone know the differences between the 2 in how they hold up, spread etc. need to use a dark grey color .
Also just an aside . i had been a fan of AFM. i did a lot of research on paints and felt most comfortable with them for a latex paint. i have heard from other people that their paint is just not that great a quality and our contractor said it took 4 coats of the dark color to work, and several coats of the white as well. it also took them 3 weeks to get us our paint and then the color was wrong.
unfortunately all the latex paints out there have an array of chemicals that arent listed and we just dont know about. I wish at the least that AFM would improve their quality and responsibility.
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