One of my little hotels has a tiled roof using the large CPAC green tiles, (made of some compressed material, not concrete).

This colour is a little drab...

I have previously (and successfully) repainted these types of roof tile with a different colour of exterior paint.

Now I have a 'mad' idea to repaint the green tiles in a metallic gold colour, as is sometimes seen on Wats, (the one near to the Don Mueng freeway has a sparkling and glittering gold roof).

I can buy plain gold exterior paint, but short of asking the wat in Don Mueng where they bought their paint, does anyone know where I can buy a gold paint full of sparkly bits??

I'd need maybe 50 litres or so.

Thanks for any advice.

Simon

Both home pro and Global have the gold paint, but the biggest tin I saw was 1 litre.....and its expensive.

Pay attention to what you are buying though, the cheaper tins are cheap for a reason....they lose their glossy sheen within days.

These two tins I have used, the beger and hato, had them nearly 3yrs, you can see the beger sheen is still there but the Hato looks a dull yellow now.

Wouldn't surprise me if the temples are supplied the gold paint f.o.c.

Is it 'sparkly' gold paint or plain gold paint?

I don't know for sure - but painting roof tiles seems like a wasted thing to do.

Is it 'sparkly' gold paint or plain gold paint?

The beger definitely has that pearlescent lustre about it, the other one is just plain.

The sun shining on it will enhance it further.

Not sure how long it lasts though on a roof and the porosity of the tile will make a big difference.

I think the clay tiles they use on the roofs are the glazed finish type and that's your best base.

Is it 'sparkly' gold paint or plain gold paint?

The beger definitely has that pearlescent lustre about it, the other one is just plain.

The sun shining on it will enhance it further.

Not sure how long it lasts though on a roof and the porosity of the tile will make a big difference.

I think the clay tiles they use on the roofs are the glazed finish type and that's your best base.

How about the yellow paint from Jotun -road marking paint-,this one cane use for concrete surface, looks like gold and it's glittering

How about the yellow paint from Jotun -road marking paint-,this one cane use for concrete surface, looks like gold and it's glittering

Road paint is thermo_plastic paint and is applied via a boiler.

Unless you fancy lugging up a T.P. Machine into a roof then forget that idea.

Aha,but I don't talk abaout this typ, look at the technical data from JOTUN -Road Marking Paint C.R-(google)