Painting Location Advice (Indoor/Covered Outdoor)

[NewBritWorkshop]

Hi,

This is my first post.

I've recently returned to woodworking after a 10 year break and I'm building a double bed from redwood and plywood panels (all painted cream) with an oak trim topper to the head and footboard.

My question is ..... where is the best place to paint this?

Do I paint the bed outside (under a cold covered area) and then put in bedroom when complete?

or

do I put the bed into the bedroom and let the bed settle for a while (few days or a week?) and then paint?

my concern is possible cracking due to possible expansion etc when the bed is brought in from the cold to indoors?

many thanks in advance

 

[Scottdimelow]

You're not Peter Parfitt are you?

 

[NewBritWorkshop]

Ha no .... looks like he's pinched my name ......

 

[Scottdimelow]

I thought he might have lol.

I'd recommend leaving it indoors, it's too cold to paint outdoors at the minute anyway. Or at least it is where I am.

 

[AndyT]

+1 for bringing the whole thing indoors, waiting several weeks for the wood to settle down a bit, then painting it indoors.

If you read the instructions (!) many modern paints say that they are not suitable for use when it's cold.

 

[Scottdimelow]

Anything water based is useless when it's cold, even oil based would take ages to dry and increase the chances of crap sticking to it.

 

[mseries]

+1 for not painting outdoors in the winter. Bring the job in, let the wood dry some more and shrink, then paint it

 

[AES]

@NewBritWorkshop:

+ another 1 for painting indoors.

Not only is it far too cold at present just about anywhere in Europe I think (most paints, varnishes, etc, water or oil based, that I've used do not recommend using at much below 10 deg C), but when I painted in a well "curtained-off" car port last summer, to my horror I found out that when I got back out there after a cuppa all sorts of "flying fleas" or whatever had landed on the paint and stuck to it!

Fortunately it was only primer/undercoat but it still took a helluva lot of sanding to remove all the corpses.

I was painting outside that time because I was spraying, but have now decided to use brush or roller only unless/until I can get set up with some sort of a sensibly closed spray booth effort (those flies got through what I thought were quite small gaps between the curtaining).

HTH
AES