By painting your air conditioner with spray paint, you can get rid of the yellowish appearance it acquires over time. This tutorial will show you how to renew your air device quickly, easily and economically.
Painting the walls of the house is an event. We look for excuses to delay it a few days or weeks, wishing it were painted alone. When we finally get down to work, not even 10 minutes pass with the freshly painted walls when moved by an uncontrollable inner force, our eyes go to that yellowish air conditioner stuck on the top of the immaculate white wall.
Well, something similar happened to Dekorella, but not because of the walls, but because it occurred to him to change the curtains. Luckily, he took the opportunity to make a post explaining how to paint an air conditioner with spray paint.
Materials to paint an air conditioner we will need:
These are the materials that we are going to need to make our yellowish air conditioner look new:
How to paint an air conditioner with spray paint:
The housing of air conditioners is usually made of different types of plastic, hence some parts look more yellowish than others. Dekorella chose to paint only the pieces that had yellowed more with a silver-tone that combined very well with the ceiling and the curtain. For this, she chose Pintyplus Evolution silver spray.
Any of the Pintyplus ranges have good adhesion on rigid plastic. However, we recommend putting a previous layer of special spray primer for plastics to improve long-term adhesion. We have a primer for this purpose that we design in colorless so as not to alter the base color. You can see the technical characteristics in Primer spray for plastic Pintyplus
Once the casing is disassembled, the pieces are placed on the protective paper and the primer layer is given. For this we must take into account the following:
- Shake the boat for a couple of minutes approximately.
- Spray the surface. As it is a transparent primer, we will make sure that we do not leave parts unpainted.
After 15 minutes the primer will be dry and ready to apply the spray paint silver.
We must give thin layers to avoid slips, maintaining a distance of about 15/20 cm to cover the surface.
If after drying (approximately 10/15 minutes) we see that we have left something unpainted, we paint again without any problem.
Finally, the housing will be mounted and we can already enjoy the “new” air conditioner.
The white and silver of the device combine very well with the white curtain and the ash ceiling. We can now open the curtains without fear of seeing that yellowish.
As you can see, painting your air conditioner with spray paint is a quick, fast and economical way to renew it. You only need a couple of hours to go from a yellowish plastic to a design one.
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