Storage compartment paint

[chuckd]

Need to clean up my storage (baggage) compartments, and do some repainting.  Have plywood floors and side walls.  Is a good quality porch paint the best option

Thanks chuckd

[Cary and Don]

A good porch and deck paint will work fine on the plywood.  A semi gloss exterior trim paint will also work. It will not stick to metal surfaces though.  You could use an oil base spray paint on any metal and then use a matching deck paint on the plywood.  If you really want a tough surface,  there are some industrial oil base paints that will wear like iron.  They are pretty nasty to use though since they are oil base.  It is nice if the floor is no skid.  Things like to slide around down there.  If it didn't cost so much,  the stuff they use to line pickup beds would be nice on the floor.

Don and Cary
1973 Eagle 05
GMC 4107
Neoplan AN340

[chev49]

The roll on pickup bed black liner paint is around $60 a gallon here, and will do the sides floor of a compartment easily. Paint is costing close to $30 a gallon for the cheap insdustrial white or black at the automotive paint store here.  And if you paint aluminum, you need to have a good 'tooth' for the paint to stick to as well as the proper undercoat, etc.

[Joe Camper]

Take an access plate for the bay door solonoids off the backside of a bay door and home depo will color match it to some oil based deck paint.

[JohnEd]

The roll on pickup bed black liner paint is around $60 a gallon here, and will do the sides floor of a compartment easily. Paint is costing close to $30 a gallon for the cheap insdustrial white or black at the automotive paint store here.  And if you paint aluminum, you need to have a good 'tooth' for the paint to stick to as well as the proper undercoat, etc.

There is no such thing as "self etching primer", according to my body shop friend.  Treat it with etch or resign to getting blisters on aluminum that look like cancer or patched that flake off if it is SS.  This info is many tears old but the caution still holds.

They make a new version of the pick-up bed spray on liner that is non skid.

HTH,

John