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As a traditional boat owner for nearly 10 years we found one of the most difficult and time consuming taskes was boat paint preparation. 4 years ago, Our boat cost the best part of £6,000 to be stripped to bare metal and repainted. One of the major contributors to the costs was labour and how time consuming the paint removal was, this took over 2 weeks and still it wasn't done to my fussy standards. I found areas around screws and such you could only get in so close, same as getting into tight areas even with with special tools, it was almost impossible. and I wanted perfection, as I was paying top dollar. Sadly because some of the original paint was left and surface preparation could have been better, we feel the boat will require more work as it's starting to show signs of rust and paint flaking, where the substrate had not been correctly keyed to take the new paint. So I may well have come up with a plan to produce a perfect paint preparation application that is eco friendly , dust free, and completely mobile, I can strip my complete boat in less than three days, and I mean complete, down to bare metal in all the nooks and crannies as well. The system was initially created for my Gate business in my workshop but I may make it mobile to take on my boat restoration again this year. the benefits I can see are substantially reducing the prep time, speeding up turnaround of boat being painted by the company, ensuring a complete and proper strip to bare metal, and leaving a good key for new paint to adhere too . but most importantly having my boat back in the water up to two weeks quicker than the last time. i would be happy to advise/help on anything to do with paint surface preparation. if I can save time, it must be a good thing? getting my wife to agree is another..
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