How to Paint a Plastic Bucket 

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Pretty funny to paint a Lowe's bucket orange.

So, you bought a Lowe’s bucket and painted it into a Home Depot’s bucket! 😂 Cheaper and easier to just buy the Home Depot’s bucket. But, thanks for the info, the tips and the demo.

Getting a home depot bucket to paint it blue! 🤣

Scuffing a finish is what the 3M green pads were originally designed to do, and they still do it better than anything.

Orange Home Depot bucket. Cool Good tip on scuffing the plastic first. Ill use that step today. Thanks

Would love to see that scratch test done on the newly painted bucket.

You are a good teacher.... you explain everything so simple and you took your time speaking....⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐😎 Five Stars Bro 👍

So much work ill just wrap some thick plastic around and be done with it!

If you don’t want to use steel wool 3M makes Scotch Bright Pads meant to be a substitute for steel wool they’re offered in different grits and so forth. Also in the automotive industry they use a heat gun and isopropyl alcohol to “sweat” out the release agent used during the bucket’s manufacture. The release agent is one of the main reasons paint doesn’t stick.

Thank you, this was most informative and very helpful 😊

thank you sir, the tutorial is very helpful to practice..god bless

I am thinking of using this to paint my plastic/ resin white patio chairs I have in the Spring time. Would I need a topcoat? I do have automotive top coat around from a previous project (Dupli-Color CDA169207 Acrylic Enamel, Crystal Clear).. Thanks!

hmm, first thank you for your vid. i'm trying to figure out why my granite spray paint that i painted onto a regular plastic hanging flower pot (like home depot) started peeling off from the pot while in the rain. i didn't scratch it first, so perhaps i should have? i did do 2 coats of primer before using the granite looking paint. i also granite sprayed the trim on my newly copper painted mail box... and the trim granite spray is coming off of that too.... ugh. i think i even did a clear coat over the granite spray. any further suggestions you might have for me? not sure what type of plastic a hanging flower pot is... nor the plastic of mailbox trim. both items are outdoors and in the rain and both are majorly peeling. what a bummer. appreciate any advice...

Painting from top to bottom (moving the can vertically) and moving around the bucket will work better, and save paint. You want to maintain a “wet edge” when you're applying the paint.

Thank you 😊

He's changing a Lowes bucket to a Home Depot bucket,,🤣🤣🤣👌🇺🇸

Hi.I have a plastic cover on my laptop and got the ide to paint it in another color and decorate it after wards. How do you think I should go about it ? 🙏🏻🙂

Thanks so much.

Will acrylic paint stick to a bucket without spraying it with primer or using sandpaper

im hoping this method will be more scratch resistant. i use my up-cycled five gallon buckets for recycling and litter and im hoping to give them to my friends to save recycling in their homes for me. i just don't want to give them something that will make a colorful mess. Does a clear coat help?

I did scratch it up/sand before painting but the scratches showed through the paint. :(

Help! I've painted a green plastic book bin with white Rustolium American Accents 2x (a dollar tree Christmas diy) i/o to make a sleigh gift to hold my Mom's holiday catalogs. 2 days in & it's still tacky in spots. Will a clear matte spray coat seal on the white? What do you recommend? Btw: MerryChristmas☆

Thx😊

I used a good primer, but didn't use the steelwool method for the micro scratches on my plastic bottle. Hope it will stick to it though.

Any tips on rubber please?

You sprayed inside no toxic effect to plants?

After how much time can i touch the spray painted plastic where it wont be toxic for my hands?

would using a green scotch bright pad be ok to use to "rough up" the plastic?

I wonder if you could just use chalk paint

No other way but spray paint/ acrylics? My problem is odour.. I don’t have a backyard & good natural ventilation lol 😂 My kid requesting to repaint her table edges with pink. By the way- denatured alcohol, can I substitute 100% isopropyl?

Could I use a small roller to paint ,

I have to paint nutcracker sculptures I made out of buckets and pvc pipe... this would take forever. I'll probably just use my electric sander HAHA

Could've just bought a homedepot bucket

👍🏻🙏

I am definitely one of those people who have done this before but I’ve come to realize that buckets are like two dollars at Walmart so it’s really a waste of time and money and probably worse for the environment to spray paint a plastic bucket. It is a good Handy tutorial for painting anything plastic (or IKEA) though! And I might still paint another bucket or two LOL

Niiiiiceeeee

Anyone know if this is safe to paint and then grow veggies in?

Your bucket went from Lowes to Home Depot. 😂😂

Turned a Lowe’s bucket into a Home Depot bucket

The materials cost more than just buying a pot, not to mention the labour

I thought about doing this then just said bucket.

Landlord came over today and told me the red buckets have to go

;)) don’t get on fire 🔥 out there with rubbing alcohol under hot sun

I have three of those blue Lowes buckets that have tomatoes growing in them - on my deck. The blue is pretty, but the bucket is a Lowes advertisement in giant white letters. I think that's ugly, even though I shop at Lowes. That's why I'm painting it.

Universal bonding primer.

Lol..you made a Lowes bucket the color of a Homedepot bucket🤣

LOL WHY I WANNA PAINT A LOWES BUCKET INTO A HOME DEPOT ONE LMAO 😂🤣🌈🌈🌈🌈💩💩💩💩👍🏻🥰🥰🤣🌈

Do you work for Home Depot? 🤣

Hey mate. Cheaper to buy a new bucket.

Should have just purchased bucket from Home Depot.

Don't you believe this for a minute! No matter how much you scuff up the polyethylene, the paint won't stick. You need a special primer for polyethylene. it is expensive ($40/quart) and has hazardous solvents in it. There are supposedly other treatments (flame treatment, vacuum plasma treatment) that are not practical for the home owner to do. FORGET TRYING TO PAINT POLYETHYLENE BUCKETS!

Or you can just go to homedepot and buy an orange bucket. Lmao.