It has been sitting in my garage covered for about 3 years, and I guess I should have coated it with cosmoline or something, just figured the paint would have kept it a little better than this. Anyway, what do yall recommend for paint? Of course I'll sand it first. Any complications or setbacks I should expect? I'm running my wife out of the workshop room (concrete box with windows) that was added onto the house. She's been using it as a chicken rearing room, but now we have some broody chickens again. Gonna use it as a knife making workshop, and I'd rather use a wood stove that I already have rather than a diesel heater and getting high. Luckily the previous owner had the foresight to add a 6" liner in the concrete about 6 or so feet up the wall, and built it up like a chimney.
That's not totally unexpected...high temp stove paint doesn't prevent rust too well when exposed to moisture...just polish it up using some scotchbright and spray it with high temp stove paint
Stove Bright is OEM for many brands... and I've used Rust-Oleum high temp successfully too...they have both spray and brush on, flat and low gloss...I think they call it gloss, but it's more like semi gloss once cured...I have used both on stoves before (like flat on the body and gloss on the door, that actually looked pretty good)