Metallic silver paint vs white paint

Pandrilby

Active Member
I'm going to be painting the inside of my grow box soon and I was going to paint it bright white. But I just found some metallic silver paint I had laying around. Do you guys think metallic silver paint would work as good or better than white paint?
 

JoeyV

Well-Known Member
flat white will diffuse light better than silver metalic paint, i believe it's somewhere around 94% light reflectance. whereas the silver metalic paint does not have nearly the same reflective qualities (my guess would be less than 85%) and it would change the color of the reflections somewhat. but you could use the silver metalic as a base coat, then paint the flat white over it.
 
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