How many cans?

[mung]

I have both air and airless sprayers so I can do any type of paint out there.  I am thinking of using something like this on the roof.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_139929-29-5527-1-30_0__?productId=1015511&Ntt=rv+roof+paint&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNtt%3Drv%2Broof%2Bpaint&facetInfo=

[luvrbus]

Imrom has been water based here for several years now

[harleyman_1000]

I have to say if I were to repaint my bus I would spray it with automotive paint, probably base coat clear coat.    On my bus there really isn't that much paint - just a 2 foot high by 30 foot long mid panel below the windows.  Taping and masking the windows for their black trim would be about six times as much work.  Roof would get a roller job, though.  But I have a "booth" to paint it in, and all the compressors and guns and such.

Brian

Paint party at brains! Bring your buses, but don't tell Brian 

[sdc53]

Mung,
I saw a bus that someone had rolled on that thick white roof stuff in the south, after many years it dried up hard like concrete and I don't know how the heck you'd get it off there if it cracked or whatever. They said it keeps it cooler, but after baking in the sun I think you're stuck with it. IMHO and YMMV.

[wg4t50]

Being a gear head / Hot Rod type, I always thought using a mop was a great idea for the roof job, paint brush for the rest.  In my world, how it runs is what counts, beauty is skin deep they keep saying.
Seen a few fancy paint jobs broke down along the highway.  My MC7, I have driven it over 150,000 miles in 20 years, never had any issue on the road. We all have different values.
Dave M

[Cosmo]

I'm with Harleyman, Brian you have room for two buses lol? I talked to the automotive paint supplier here in town and was told Imron was banned in the states, but could get it out of Mexico (go figure). Painting in on the list, but way down the list. Still a lot of good information posted for us guys who are going to paint their bus themselves. I like the roller way up on top, in fact was on a ladder this afternoon (checking out my destination window glass and trim) looking the roof over. A good cleaning, some rough sanding and the top would be ready for paint. Uh, forgot to mention the tape and covering the sides. Enjoy the holiday!

[mung]

If you commit to a roof paint, you are kind of stuck with it.  You just keep doing it to keep it fresh.  But, it will keep it cooler and will be tougher if you have to get up on the roof to anything.  Still trying to decide in which way to go.  Automotive paint scratches real easy so that doesn't work if you are going to have to walk on it at any point.

[Jeremy]

Marine deck paint might be the obvious choice for a bus roof - super tough, non-slip and obviously very very weatherproof. Won't have any 'special' heat-reflective properties though.

Jeremy

[mung]

Yes that is another good option, you can get that with grit in it as well. 

Vern

[lornaschinske]

We rolled Henry's SolarFlex Elastometric roof coating on our roof (a whole large bucket in 3 thin coats). It really does drop the temps. We had previously used Snow Roof's Elastometric on the Class C and David's cargo trailer (no longer have). We love this stuff.

No problem Iceni John if you don't like Home Depot. There are lots who don't like Slow's either. That's why there is more than one choice of places to shop at. I just wish I got an employee discount. I could have saved a lot on the conversion cost!

[bevans6]

Well, my bus is in the boat shed right now but it's coming out as soon as I figure out a way to fix the clearance light that is finally toast.  You know you are having a bad day when you take the cover off to replace the bulb and a half a cup of water runs out...  Going to put in some LED's under the original lens.

I just talked to a guy with Monk 36 trawler/cruiser (kind of like Sean's big trawler but 10 foot shorter).  His deck is all cracking, it's balsa wood core fiberglass and I may be putting it in and repairing the cracks for him before the winter.  Big job, not hard just tedious like a lot of jobs.  Probably 15 square feet of deck will need to have work done on it.  But there is an open call for anyone who finds themselves in the north shore of Nova Scotia and wants a place to park.  My outside pad is 20' by 70' concrete with a pump-out station available and a 30 amp plug in.  The boat shed is 12' by 45' on the pad, 15' door and the building is 35 by 60.  The other building is usually full of stuff, only has 11'-6" at the doors.

Very hot here today, it may get up to almost 80 degrees...  Cooler when I took this pic...   

Brian