Thanks for advice - need some more

[royce]

Just giving my thanks to those who gave me advice on how to get my td inside the garage out of the weather. In the end I made it fit by cutting a stepped groove in the timber at the top of the garage door. My td fits with the vent passing through the groove in the centre.

It was built in there so I knew only the air vent once fitted prevented it going in and out.

Now a new question. I read posts on canvas and Reddoknowledge had one for Mark recently where he stripped canvas off of his 20 year project td. My td has a coat of primer, an undercoat and two coats of epoxy paint. Can I put a layer of canvas over the top of this on the roof and then paint that? Is it worth doing or not? Some advice from you good people would be appreciated.

[trodler]

Hi Royce.
If the existing coating over the roof of the TD is sound with no cracking, I would leave it.
But if it is showing signs of cracking,canvasing the whole lot would be the way to go.
Just check that enamel Paint ( which you would use to paint the canvas in ) will stick to epoxy paint.
If you need to now how to canvas the roof, let me know, as it takes a while to type it all out.

Cheers.
Trodler.

[belinda]

Have you looked at the thread "canvas on roofs" in this section? I typed up some quotes about fitting canvas a while back.

Keith Winser always made things sound so easy, but I've got my doubts. I try to imagine how you'd go if you started with one of his three-page descriptions and tried to build a complete van ....

I suspect it's not as simple as he makes out.

[royce]

Thanks for that. I may just decide to sand a little and coat it twice more. ;D ;D