all right guys this is the before see nice and shiny
not bad looking just uh not exactly the look that i'm going for and then there's the after
how's it going guys welcome back to patriot diy channel today i'm going to show you how to turn
a piece of a galvanized corrugated metal like this into this i have a project going on inside the
shop here where i'm facing the walls with some barn wood and other materials and kind of the
look i'm going for is a real rustic antiquey look and part of that along the bottom of the wall i'm
going to be using some of this corrugated metal and i spent a lot of time trying to source some
old corrugated metal from craigslist marketplace or even just barns around my area and i had a hard
time finding what i was looking for and what i ultimately decided to do was to go ahead and get
some brand new corrugated galvanized metal from my local lowe's and all you really need to turn
this into this is two products you're going to need some muratic acid and some peroxide
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right guys so i'm going to take you around here and kind of give you an overview of what the total
project is going to be and then i'll give you a step-by-step guide on how to get this look from
your corrugated metal all right guys excuse my mess back here but this is what i got um a while
back i tore down an old tobacco barn i am going to do a full video on that and how to process
this reclaimed wood so make sure you stick around for that but this is what i got we're going to get
this cleaned up and that's going to be going on the wall just above this corrugated metal that
we're working on now all right guys so this whole big wall back here behind me if you followed our
videos you know that i have a room back here off the side of my shop that i'm going to be turning
into kind of a bar hangout area and the ultimate look i'm going for is like an 1800s saloon type
look and what we're going to be doing since i'm not sure i have quite enough of that old barn
wood is at the bottom of the wall the bottom three foot section of that wall i'm going to be using
this corrugated metal as kind of a wainscot and to make it go with our rustic and antique feel that
we're going for we wanted to rust it so that's the process we're going to show you right now
all right the first thing we're going to do to prep this metal is we're going to give it
a good sanding and i'm going to be using some 120 grit sandpaper and this sanding
pad i will link to all this stuff as well as the chemicals we're going to be using in the
description below so make sure you check those out you can also use steel wool or whatever you have
at hand the main goal is just to rough up that outer coating that's on this galvanized metal
so that our chemicals can really eat down and work their magic on this metal
all right guys next thing we're going to use is the muratic acid now this is some really serious
stuff so you want to make sure you keep yourself protected and wear stuff like chemical resistant
gloves eye protection and probably even a mask or respirator because this stuff puts off some pretty
nasty fumes now what we want to do is carefully transfer this muriatic acid into a spray bottle
now i definitely recommend getting yourself a few spray bottles because what i found
is that after a certain amount of time of that acid being in the spray bottle
it will start to eat away at your sprayer and it will not work correctly anymore so you want
to go ahead and have a few spray bottles ready i think i used four for this project now first
i'm going to set my sprayer on more of a direct stream so i can hit some individual areas on the
panel sporadically in different areas to get a higher concentration of rust in certain areas
what you'll notice later is that the areas where this muratic acid settles on the panel
that's where you're going to get most of your rusting so after i've done that kind of randomly
over all these panels i'm going to switch my sprayer on over to more of a misting spray
and i'm just going to spray the entire panel trying to hit every nook and cranny on this metal
now i'll give you guys a closer look here at what's actually happening as i'm spraying this on
here you can really see that acid start to bubble and simmer and really eat away at that coating on
the metal and that's exactly what it's doing is it's eating away that shiny outer coating of the
galvanized metal and ultimately what it's going to leave you with is a nice dull dark matte finish
after i was sure i had coated all the panels good i let that sit on there for about 15 to 30 minutes
now we're ready to go back with the peroxide we're
going to do the same thing and put this peroxide into a spray bottle
and we're going to spray it all over the panel and you'll notice that almost instantly
everywhere that that muratic acid has settled it's going to almost instantly start to rust
once i've got peroxide all over these panels i'm going to let that do its thing
and you're going to want to let this sit for at least a day i actually let mine sit for about
a week outside after putting the peroxide on there and when i got back to it after a week
i was really happy with the result all right guys this is the before see nice and shiny
not bad looking just uh not exactly the look that i'm going for and then there's the after
that is just a huge difference you can see that muratic acid uh takes off that top coating that
shiny layer and then the peroxide gives it that nice rusty look yeah that is awesome
so once you've got the look you want what i did was i went back with the water hose and
i just rinsed the whole thing off to get off any residual acid or chemicals that may be on it and
once that dries you're good to go now i have seen some people that'll go back and put a clear coat
over this to really lock it in i haven't done that with mine but i may decide to go back and do that
in the future so it's been a little over a week since i did mine and this is kind of the result
you can expect there's a lot of variation in the color just depending on where that
acid settled on the panels and that's exactly what i wanted you can see there's some really
deep heavy rusting in some areas and in some areas you have kind of that white corrosion on there
i think this turned out great and it's exactly the look i was going for all right guys that's
it for how to rust or age your galvanized metal i'm really happy with the results i hope
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