Here's a fun one. I have a designer who wants to use a textured vinyl flooring (not dance floor--the kind of thing you'd put in a kitchen or somesuch) painted metallic silver as a show floor.
I've tested various combinations of scrubbing the vinyl with acetone or denatured alcohol to try to strip any plasticizer residue and priming with a vinyl dye before topcoating with silver spray enamel. So far the topcoat remains slightly gummy days after application and scuffs if you so much as look at it funny. I have some plastic primer spray on the way to try, wondering if anyone has any other suggestions for process or products? Seems like something in the vinyl is keeping the paint from curing, so I expect a key part of the solution will be in either stripping or sealing the vinyl first.
TIA
I've tested various combinations of scrubbing the vinyl with acetone or denatured alcohol to try to strip any plasticizer residue and priming with a vinyl dye before topcoating with silver spray enamel. So far the topcoat remains slightly gummy days after application and scuffs if you so much as look at it funny. I have some plastic primer spray on the way to try, wondering if anyone has any other suggestions for process or products? Seems like something in the vinyl is keeping the paint from curing, so I expect a key part of the solution will be in either stripping or sealing the vinyl first.
TIA