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When I have to paint one of those beautiful milti-lite windows that look so nice in the catalogue, I usually paint well onto the glass and then carefully cut away the excess with a paint scraper for a nice neat job. Now I have a door with many lites and frosted glass. It doesn’t look like my standard method will work here, ’cause the frosted glass won’t clean up as nicely as plain glass. Any ideas?
Thanks
Andy
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ANDY- I spent 25 years in the art glass business and did lots of etching/sandblasting. You definitely don't want to get ANY paint on the glass 'cause it won't come off easily. If you do and try to clean it off it will end up worse and then you'll have ruined it. Don't use masking tape because your paint will suck up under the edge (of course you already knew that). There are a few things you could do. Remove the lites if you can- they're probably sealed in real good so I guess maybe that's not an option? There are a couple of brush-on type coatings that I think would work as masking- one is sold I think actually as glass masking by Protective Products, the other would be that plasti-dip stuff that you use to recoat the handles on pliers, etc.. We used to use some stuff on etched glass to repel oil and fingerprints, it was called Invisible Shield and I think it's actually the same as Rain-X (Unelko Corp. in Scottsdale Ariz.), very hard to get ANYTHING to stick to it after you apply it. Lastly (or firstly), maybe the window manuf. has an answer- I've seen units come from the factory with applied film on the lites for paint masking........ Oh, I just had one more thought. If you were to mask conventionally but right up to the sightline edge of the glass, perhaps you could spray very light successive coats? I'm not really a painter, but maybe a finer mist would also help. Hope this helps- post here if I can give add'l. info..
*Ken:Thanks for the info, you hve co9nfirmed my suspicions. I think I'll just have to paint real slow and carefully.CheersAndy