Firstly we wire brushed it all over then we wire wooled it down then we cleaned it with a cloth using turps, horribe messy job make shure to wear old clothes , we hanged it up and painted it make shure to shake the can of paint for about 20 to 30mins it took us about like 30 mins to do one side and the same to do the other. We have put them up in the shed to dry now tho lets see tommorow