I am painting the deck of my Pearson 35. Using Alexseal 501 topcoat and soft sand (fine). After checking the weekend weather yesterday, I finished sanding the primer and rolled the first coat of topcoat and broadcast the non skid at 3-4 on Saturday. Vacuumed the excess off at 7pm under the lights. My plan was to apply two coats today to lock it in…. But is has been misting and light rain all day. No painting.
I know the application guidelines say no more that 24 hours between each of the three coats. I’m wondering if I will need to sand all this off or If the non skid will give me some latitude. Seems to me it should not be a total killer if I let it all dry out and then do the next two coats within 24 hours of each other. The last two coats should still be absorbed into the soft sand and the two coats should chemically bond. The soft sand itself provides some mechanical fixation.
Is this wishful thinking. Obviously, I don’t want to sand it all off and start over.
I know the application guidelines say no more that 24 hours between each of the three coats. I’m wondering if I will need to sand all this off or If the non skid will give me some latitude. Seems to me it should not be a total killer if I let it all dry out and then do the next two coats within 24 hours of each other. The last two coats should still be absorbed into the soft sand and the two coats should chemically bond. The soft sand itself provides some mechanical fixation.
Is this wishful thinking. Obviously, I don’t want to sand it all off and start over.
