An expensive coat of paint!!!!

I absolutely love the colour range of F&B but since it costs a fortune I always end up buying good plain emulsion and mixing in the pigments myself.

 

Agree Ivory,I just love their colour range too..............Some of the names to are special :wink:
Elephants Breath
Cat's Paw
London Clay
Dead Salmon
Savage Ground
Gervase Yellow
Cooking Apple Green
Ar*enic
Down Pipe
Mouses Back
etc. etc..................You couldn't make them up,the names lol.

 

"Some of the names to are special "

Oh yes yes yes!
Forgot to mention that, I always love imaginific (?) names of colours, I can go into poetic exstasy just reading through my Derwent pencils, lol.

 

Its not what you put on top, its what you put underneath.

You could use the most expensive paint in the world, but if the primer and undercoats are not up to it, it wont last.

Cant get decent primer these days, mostly water based rubbish, must be green, musn't we.:p:D

We have a lot of clients wanting those colours where I work Roders, we tend to call them black, brown red etc.
I mean, just exactly what colour is "Elephants Breath":D

 

Pete, good primer went when they banned lead.... and the pink primer of old disapeared.

Its noticable when I burn off old paint (Probably not suposed too due to aforementioned lead!!!) that the pink primer often remains yet with more newer paint the whole lot comes off

Must admit i do use a water based primer, usually zinsser bulls eye the drying the time is a god send and it sticks like the proverbial, followed up by a coat or two of solvent undercoat and gloss imo it combines to gives a fantastic lasting finish.

 

All the big paint manufacturers produce colours with abstract or fanciful names e.g. Pacific Breeze (Dulux) or Sidewalk (Crown). It's all about convincing you their colours are different or have desirable associations.

Many of F&B's colours have historical references e.g. Calke Green or Hardwick White, but Elephant's Breath is very fanciful, I grant you. But you're never going to forget it , are you? And here we are, talking about it on a gardening forum! That's clever marketing.