Painting Over Gelcoat

If it s a large surface such as a boat or a bathtub use a gelcoat spray gun to apply a coat over the existing coat.

Painting over gelcoat.

If so then it s time to think about refinishing the gelcoat. As for the core i m not sure what you mean. With a bit of work and a fair amount of care you can achieve your goal. I ll look into the interlux paint.

Yes you can apply gelcoat over a surface that s already covered with gelcoat. Sounds like what i m looking for. For smaller surface areas like a chair apply the gelcoat using a paintbrush using short vertical strokes. Thanks for the reply.

I had thoughts of just sanding with 330 to rough it up and the put on 2 3 coats of awlgrip. What it has are five ribs about 3 wide. Like any painting project preparation is the key and in this case you will be painting over the slick shiny surface of gelcoat. And gelcoat over large areas is a ton of sanding not fun.

You ve cleaned compounded and waxed and it looks good for a while but the chalkiness returns maybe the red accent stripe that used to look so good looks pink or the dark blue bootstripe is now baby blue. Do i need to prime it if the under original coat is pretty good. So the gelcoat on your boat is looking chalky and faded. Not only do you want the paint job to look good you want to preserve that shiny gelcoat like surface.

I am painting over an old 10 years awlgrip paint job. One is just in front of the stern seat and the other four are equally spaced to just aft of the bow seat.