Rust-Oleum Outdoor Fabric Paint, Chili Red, 12 oz

My outdoor furniture cushions needed replacing. When I went to order them online, they would not be available for more than 6 months. In the meantime, I was left with extremely faded cushions. I took the plunge and bought the Rust-oleum Outdoor Fabric Paint in dark red. I first washed the cushions and let them dry. I then did a test spot on the bottom of one of the chair cushions. I first tried the color that looks like Caribbean blue. It came out very splotchy. When I tried the dark red, it was great. I waited until it dried to make sure I liked it before preceding. I have a very large outdoor couch and two wingback chairs . I used 12 cans of spray paint. It is pricey, but the cost to replace my cushions would be/will be over $1000. It took me several days to paint them. It did take multiple coats, but it is fabric after all and it soaks up the paint quickly. Honestly they could probably still use another coat of paint. The cushions are soft post painting, and they have held up well to us sitting on them after being in the pool. They have also endured the rain. I was able to buy most of the paint locally from various stores. I bought two cans from Amazon for touch ups. Overall, I am very happy with this paint.

I should have paid more attention to the one-star review especially since there was so many of them. I bought 3 cans, $53.00 so not cheap by any means. As with the other reviews, all 3 clogged within a couple of minutes of using. No matter what thinner, soap/water, OOPS, you name it I tried it, nothing made them work. I tried different nozzles off other Rust-Oleum paint cans, they worked for about 3 minutes, a one minute improvement and then clogged. I worked with those 3 cans for 2 hours and ended up with a blotchy patio umbrella. Shame on Rust-Oleum for continuing to sell a crappy product. The only thing I liked was the color, it was perfect, too bad the can delivering the paint was not. Take all the bad reviews and believe them, do not buy this, you'll be sorry.

We are happy so far with the coverage of this product. It remains to be seen how it fairs the sun and rain. The outdoor furniture is 10 years old and still in good condition. I looked and looked for replacement slip covers but was unable to find the right size and shape. This was our last option. It took 5 cans to spray 11 covers. There was a bit of a problem with several of the cans sprayer. Several seemed to get clogged so it took some finessing to get them to spray. It might help to turn them upside down before spraying from them.

This covered and resulted in what i was hoping. Color, drying time, odorless, final look was great. The only frustrating thing was like other customers have noted was the nozzle kept clogging. I bought a case and every can clogged so I was using a pin to open spray opening several times per can. One person noted to keep a bucket of hot water, so I did that 30 second scrub and it worked like a charm. I'm guessing in order to get best results consistency makes spraying more challenging than regular spray paint but the hassle was work it for me once used hot water.

The Rust-Oleum Fabric Paint did its jo just fine. My 9-foot umbrella is over 9 years old and faded from bright Red to pink. I used 2 cans of paint, one for each layer. I also added a “trigger grip” to the Rust-Oleum can and the job went easily and took a little over 2 hours, spraying two layers and waiting about an hour between sprays. The color, Chili Red is more Orange than red, but looks good with red brick. (See my photos). There was no clogging up of the paint spray as some reviewers stated, and the hand trigger is a “must” for every painter! Little pricey, but hopefully will be worth it. The umbrella feels and looks like new!! Highly recommend!!

WishI could leave a 0 review. This product is garbage. Will not spray. Just pours out of the tip. AND IT CANNOT BE RETURNED! Worst paint quality ever. Rust Oleum should be ashamed for not removing this product from stores. EDITED REVIEW: In all fairness I felt I needed to edit my review. After thinking it over about how the cans had been stored so long in a warehouse. I wrapped them in a thick black trash bag and placed them in the sun. Periodically I would go by and shake them for the full amount of time. After several hours of this , the cans did spray much better. It did involve a lot of extra work. However I believe it is an online storage issue rather than an overall product issue.

It actually works but I needed 4 cans for 1 patio umbrella. That’s over $50 for 1 umbrella. If it doesn’t fade and retains its color, I’ll a believer. Until then, very expensive.

This was so aggravating. Ruined 4 used cushions I was going to paint, but just spotted them and worked long enough to spray a very light coat sporadically on the surface. This was on two cans. I tried one and it was useless, so I tried the other one and the same thing happened. Nozzle and application of this product are terrible. The paint may have been fine and the color looked decent, but the application was a failure. I called Rustoleum for a full refund. They were over $11.00 per can. Cushions, although used, will need to be tossed probably as I don't know if I can get the color corrected and it may be more expensive than they're worth. So aggravating to have this happen. Oh well, that's what reviews are for, I suppose. UPDATE: The description states this is eligible for refund or replacement. When I tried that on Amazon return page, it states it “this product is not eligible for return”. So, I then contacted Rustoleum themselves and she is supposed to send me a form and I’m to send a copy of the Amazon invoice to get a refund. We’ll see if this works out, but I just wanted to let one know to try that if they wanted to get a refund. It’s only around $25, but apparently they need to improve their spray nozzle on this product.

I attached a little spray unit purchased at Princess Auto to the top of the spray can and it worked wonderfully.

Don’t take a gamble and believe the other reviews… I didn’t have clogging issue per say, but two cans of this wasn’t enough to cover four cushions due to the constant giant blobs of paint that would drip from it leaving patches everywhere. I would rather have bought new cushions because I now have to buy another two bottles to try and even out these splotches which has now come to $160. Beyond disappointed and honestly angry with how horrible this product is, no wonder it’s discontinued everywhere.