unless you have painted (competently) before, or, if you really don't care what it looks like so long as it's not 'stainlessy' DO NOT PAINT IT YOURSELF!
Frankly, I feel there is less heartache and angst in just replacing the units in question.
If you MUST paint it yourself, get thee to an automotive refinish supply store, post haste! They will walk you through it, step by step as well as pointing you to components that will actually work together.
Surface prep will be key. This cannot be overstated. You WILL have to rough up the surface to be painted (probably with 240 grit, then 480) followed with a THOROUGH cleaning of the sanded surface with a prep solvent. Followed by another. And another. Because of it's composition, stainless presents adhesion problems just by it's very nature, so overkill inn the prep department is the order of the day.
Anybody can paint stainless. Few will do it correctly.
There are special (read expensive) etching primers for use on Stainless & Galvanized metal. Skipping this step can lead to top coat failures eventually. Especially on surfaces that get hot. Good luck Bud. I would learn to like them myself or swap them out as previously stated. At least you don't have 50's/60's aqua, orange, avocado or PINK....oh, wait.
Our bid was accepted - I hope they realize they lost money because of their fugly appliances. I'll probably end up swapping them out with one of the rental units as its really sounds like painting them correctly would be a nightmare and probably almost as expensive as just ****canning the damn things. We like black - but may go white this time as the cabinets are rather dark. It also has one of those stupid stove pipe exhaust fans (in STAINLESS, of course) that wastes space (no cabinets) and results in no microwave over the stove (more wasted space). That'll probably be the first project, tear that stupidity out - then I get to try to match the cabinets.
I'm still holding out hope that I can re-skin, but I'm not holding my breathe...
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
It also has one of those stupid stove pipe exhaust fans (in STAINLESS, of course) that wastes space (no cabinets) and results in no microwave over the stove (more wasted space). That'll probably be the first project, tear that stupidity out - then I get to try to match the cabinets.
I'm still holding out hope that I can re-skin, but I'm not holding my breathe...
That would be the first thing that I did also, I mean, what kind of an idiot would want to exhaust smoke, and odors, and airborn grease when they can disperse it throughout the interior of their home.
That would be the first thing that I did also, I mean, what kind of an idiot would want to exhaust smoke, and odors, and airborn grease when they can disperse it throughout the interior of their home.
We're not communicating - microwaves include an exhaust fan to the outside, every house I've had in the last 25 years has had one.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
We're not communicating - microwaves include an exhaust fan to the outside, every house I've had in the last 25 years has had one.
if you did not build the house and put the piping in , that microwave is recycling the air back into the kitchen.
better off having the microwave do one thing and get a real hood to do the other.
Been in lots of kitchens and the best ones have separate devices.
Besides thats what Im doing in the next house.
But then I will have 9 foot ceilings and cabinets floor to ceiling in a 12 by 12 kitchen.
More then enough space.
If you think OHSA is a little town in Wisconsin you may be in trouble!
Peace is firing my guns or 60 feet below the surface of the water.
Been in lots of kitchens and the best ones have separate devices.
My range rood has a 1200cfm exhaust fan. The actual fan itself is outside on the wall with a 10" electronically dampered circular duct in between. In addition, I got another 8" dampered duct that opens to the HVAC make up from the outside to allow proper air flow. When I get a smoking hot cast iron skillet going and blacken a piece of fish, all that smoking cayenne pepper gets vented outside so I don't feel like I was maced.
Zorba-- Here is a kitchen that serves your needs. Cute, but completely useless for the task...
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
if you did not build the house and put the piping in , that microwave is recycling the air back into the kitchen.
All the ones I've been involved with were piped to the outside - BUT - that may have been because the microwave wasn't original equipment - they were put in to replace a stand alone hood. I did one, the previous owner did another. As will be the case here.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
“A gun is a tool, no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
NOT anymore! MY MIL just re-did her kitchen with all new STAINLESS high-end appliances :devil: and she has one of those new microwaves and it is AMAZING!!!!! She's cooked some roasts in it and they come out the same as a regular oven!!! Of course I saw the bill for the appliances and I almost fainted...
She probably could have gotten the same thing for 25% less if she hadn't bought STAINLESS!! Plus it would have looked nicer... :tooth:
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
My range rood has a 1200cfm exhaust fan. The actual fan itself is outside on the wall with a 10" electronically dampered circular duct in between. In addition, I got another 8" dampered duct that opens to the HVAC make up from the outside to allow proper air flow. When I get a smoking hot cast iron skillet going and blacken a piece of fish, all that smoking cayenne pepper gets vented outside so I don't feel like I was maced.
Zorba-- Here is a kitchen that serves your needs. Cute, but completely useless for the task...
Naw, I'll hold out for "My Little Pony"!
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
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Now here's somebody who actually gets me! :tooth:
What makes it funnier is there is an element of truth to it! :roll2:
There are special (read expensive) etching primers for use on Stainless & Galvanized metal. Skipping this step can lead to top coat failures eventually. Especially on surfaces that get hot. Good luck Bud. I would learn to like them myself or swap them out as previously stated. At least you don't have 50's/60's aqua, orange, avocado or PINK....oh, wait.
I'm still holding out hope that I can re-skin, but I'm not holding my breathe...
Isn't that a good thing? Who puts an electronic controlled device over a heat source on purpose?
:drool:
Jerry
That would be the first thing that I did also, I mean, what kind of an idiot would want to exhaust smoke, and odors, and airborn grease when they can disperse it throughout the interior of their home.
We're not communicating - microwaves include an exhaust fan to the outside, every house I've had in the last 25 years has had one.
Just watched that, and I know one thing with certainty- she has tried to stab someone with a pair of crafting shears at least once.
That there is the definition of redhead crazy
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
if you did not build the house and put the piping in , that microwave is recycling the air back into the kitchen.
better off having the microwave do one thing and get a real hood to do the other.
Been in lots of kitchens and the best ones have separate devices.
Besides thats what Im doing in the next house.
But then I will have 9 foot ceilings and cabinets floor to ceiling in a 12 by 12 kitchen.
More then enough space.
Peace is firing my guns or 60 feet below the surface of the water.
Zorba-- Here is a kitchen that serves your needs. Cute, but completely useless for the task...
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This. For small microwavish things, we use a toaster oven. Its quicker than an oven and better than a microwave.
Naw, I'll hold out for "My Little Pony"!