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Can anyone advise me on the best way to respray my marmet wooden body pram. i need to do it as cant match colours of hood n apron.  i thought royal blue on the botton and antique cream above . please help julie.

julie lee at March 7, 2011 at 5:31 PM

Can anyone advise me on the best way to respray my marmet wooden body pram. i need to do it as cant match colours of hood n apron.  i thought royal blue on the botton and antique cream above . please help julie.

Hi Julie,  You will need to completely mask the top half of the pram, or better still remove the hood and apron and tape over the upholstery with a sheet of plastic and plenty of masking tape.   Also mask over any other parts which you don't want to spray over making sure they are well covered.  

Rub down the bodywork to get rid of any flaking paint or lumps and bumps, wipe over with a cloth damped with window spray to remove all the dust from the rubbing down and leave to completely dry.

Use  Halfords grey primer which will take any sort of top coat afterwards - and give the body a couple of coats, rubbing down lightly after each coat.   Then apply two or three top coats of cream over the whole pram, leaving to dry completely after each coat, and rubbing lightly with some fine wet and dry paper, again wiping over with a damped cloth between rubbing down and respraying.   When you have finished with the cream and the pram has dried completely, mask off the cream part leaving the part to be sprayed blue and give this a couple of coats or until you are happy with the result.   Take off the masking tape as soon as you have finished, otherwise it will stick to the cream quite strongly and may even pull some of the paint off.  Try and find a low-tack masking tape, they are available which should give you more time.

Hope this works for you.

Kind regards