An expensive coat of paint!!!!

Doing a small painting job today, the customer suplied gloss was a stagering £48 per tin.... organic pigments or some sutch!!!! personally I couldnt notice a differance to normal dulux trade other than the finish wasnt as glossy.




The tatty window by the front door could have done with some atention from Pal! whole thing really wanted stripping off and reglazing.

 

Are you an odd job man ?

 

Not specificly, 75% of my work is garden maintance but I do exterior decorating and repairs, I can charge more as I price by the job as oposed to a day rate and it keeps me busy all year and provides variety.

 

Do you wear painting overalls ?

 

yes, saves getting paint on my normal work wear and looks the part.

 

I used to do quite a bit of exterior painting and ruined many embroidered polo shirts.:(

 

Bet it outlasts Dulux by a long way.

 

Pip,The jurys out on that one, Normaly Id use Dulux trade weathershield (normaly lasts 5 years between ree coats with good prep.

BM, lol!!!

 

What make of paint was it Pro? Farrow and Ball seems to be all the rage at the moment.................If you can afford it.

 

Roders it was from Little greene paint company (daft name!!!)

http://www.thelittlegreene.com/ They bought it from a small ironmongery place hence the massive mark up compared to direct!!!

I use the F&B paint a fair bit, some of it is very good.

 

Thats cause its green everything thats green is more expensive lol

 

Love the colour.

 

Nice work, Pro Gard. How long do you leave the putty before overpainting, may I ask?

I've used Little Greene emulsion paint indoors and like it. I'm currently applying buckets of the stuff to my hall, landing and stairs. Like F&B paints, the subtle and unusual colours of Little Greene are what sold it to me. Their emulsion is also reasonably durable indoors and they do an "Ultramatt" emulsion which is as tough (so they say) as the endurance paints of Dulux - which I also like.

I've not tried their paint outdoors but I'd be prepared to give it a go.

 

Flinty, normally I use a trade trick of priming the putty with shelac knoting, allowing me to paint the folowing day.

This particular job however will get left a fortnight as the customer has dogs and didnt want the 2 doors out of action at the same time with the gloss drying.