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I'm decorating the front of the house. It's fairly old and there is lead flashing over the 2 bay windows and the porch which is on average about 3" deep all round. This is half covered in patchy flaking paint, bitumen and assorted crap, the rest is bare oxidised lead. The overall effect is dead scruffy.
I went to the Dulux Decorator Centre (where I bought a 5 litre can of bitumen to do the lower walls) and they say there is nothing that can adhere to lead.
I presume that if I wire brush it I will get cancer so what's the best way to treat it? I'm thinking a coat of bitumen and be prepared to do it again in a year.
Paint will work but won't last anywhere near what it does on other stuff
If you can clean the flashing, patination oil gives it a good finish
[you can get it from Wickes}
Can you not just scrape off the old/loose paint and then use masonry or brick paint.
We all used hammerite (I think) on our flashings a good few years ago. Metallic finish, it's been fine.