Restoring headstone, best paint
Restoring headstone, best paint
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21TonyK

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13,306 posts

238 months

I'm planning to "restore" a headstone which has been in place for 15+ years. It's granite with various inscriptions etc in three colours, red, green and silver.

Any suggestions on the best paint to use? Seen rust-oleum, zinnser etc but they are all large tins. I just need three small pots.

Don't want to spend 60 quid on paint when I can get a company to do it for 100 but I would like to do it myself.

InitialDave

15,109 posts

148 months

Unsure on best paint to use, but for that price, I'd be inclined to have someone who knows what they're about do it "properly".

Herbs

5,120 posts

258 months

Yesterday (09:43)
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I looked into this recently as I need to do the same but on marble.

Best bet is use ChatGPT and it will give you the best options and why.

Belle427

11,884 posts

262 months

Yesterday (09:59)
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Small pots of enamel paint would probably be ok.

sherman

15,235 posts

244 months

Yesterday (10:00)
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Humbrol enamel paint should work for you.
Will come in gold, silver, white
You will get it in Hobbycraft.

alscar

9,820 posts

242 months

Yesterday (10:02)
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I had to arrange burial in the same plot as her previously deceased husband ( who had been buried for some 40 years ) for a relative a couple of years ago.His black granite headstone needed proper chemical cleaning and the inscription needed re gilding and then words added for his wife - the regilding with gold leaf was £ 3.39 a letter and the new hand incised lettering £ 8.82 a letter.