jenevers Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 Has anyone painted their bilge with bitumen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boater Sam Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 Would they own up to it if they had? Would you ever get rid of the smell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 (edited) I'll bet loads of folk have. Not me though, and I wouldn't, and nor would @Boater Sam above! Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to formulate the best paint they can for this purpose and then, just to be extra helpful, they've called it "bilge paint". How handy is that? Oh, as an afterthought, I can tell you I did my gas locker floor in Rylard's Premium (the thinner, shiny one) a few years ago and it's still immaculate. The bottles do sit on Dri-dek matting though. Edited January 12, 2020 by Sea Dog Afterthought 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 1 hour ago, jenevers said: Has anyone painted their bilge with bitumen? A couple of years ago there was a young lady (new to the forum) who did here whole boat in Blacking (including the windows and sealing up the vents) we didn't hear from her for very long afterwards, She was a bit strange (even for a boater) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 19 minutes ago, Sea Dog said: I'll bet loads of folk have. Not me though, and I wouldn't, and nor would @Boater Sam above! Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to formulate the best paint they can for this purpose and then, just to be extra helpful, they've called it "bilge paint". How handy is that? Oh, as an afterthought, I can tell you I did my gas locker floor in Rylard's Premium (the thinner, shiny one) a few years ago and it's still immaculate. The bottles do sit on Dri-dek matting though. Amazing that folk youse a paint called "Bilge Paint" for their bilges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koukouvagia Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 1 hour ago, jenevers said: Has anyone painted their bilge with bitumen? Don't do it. I painted the bilges with bitumen when I had a steel bottom put on. Two years later when I removed part of the flooring to explore a plumbing leak I saw that the bitumen had flaked off and large parts of the bilge had gone rusty. The solution was to sand blast it back to bare metal and do the job properly with bilge paint. Still immaaculate after many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Sea Dog said: I'll bet loads of folk have. Not me though, and I wouldn't, and nor would @Boater Sam above! Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to formulate the best paint they can for this purpose and then, just to be extra helpful, they've called it "bilge paint". How handy is that? It seems to be something in the nature of boaters. Never happy with products made for the job, always casting around for other ways instead, seem to think they are smarter and cleverer than the makers of the right thing for the job. Oh, I wonder if anyone has ever thought of using go-kart tyres for fenders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 2 hours ago, jenevers said: Has anyone painted their bilge with bitumen? I doubt it. First diesel leak and it will come off. Bilges should be painted in a paint impervious to diesel, water and antifreeze, such as Danboline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 Some people use garage floor paint but isn't that for garage floor's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 1 minute ago, Tonka said: Some people use garage floor paint but isn't that for garage floor's What's the best paint for a garage floor? Danboline perhaps? Or bitumen? I can't decide!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Mike the Boilerman said: It seems to be something in the nature of boaters. Never happy with products made for the job, always casting around for other ways instead, seem to think they are smarter and cleverer than the makers of the right thing for the job. I met someone who thought that chucking engine oil in their clean engine bilge was a good idea. I'm not taking about the pan under the engine either. He seemed to think it would stop the steel rusting if it got wet and hadn't considered that oil floats on water, nor the fact that every time he stepped on the engine room floor the oil would be transferred from his shoes onto the deck and make it slippery, and probably into the boat too. Just a bad idea all round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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