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F&B Estate Emulsion
This CANNOT be touched up. You immediately notice it.
That for me is a deal breaker. One mark, and you are left with having to repaint the entire wall!
Johnstone CovaPlus Vinyl Matt
2012 - whole house painted in F&B matched colours using Johnstones Codes.
2019 - house still looked generally fresh.
2019 - We touched up sections of wall, large and small. Areas painted blended perfectly, you could not see any touch ups.
That for me, is incredible.
If we could have a chart of how "invisible" touch ups are. That, for me, if of key importance.
Can Dukux Diamond be touched up "invisibly"?
This CANNOT be touched up. You immediately notice it.
That for me is a deal breaker. One mark, and you are left with having to repaint the entire wall!
Johnstone CovaPlus Vinyl Matt
2012 - whole house painted in F&B matched colours using Johnstones Codes.
2019 - house still looked generally fresh.
2019 - We touched up sections of wall, large and small. Areas painted blended perfectly, you could not see any touch ups.
That for me, is incredible.
If we could have a chart of how "invisible" touch ups are. That, for me, if of key importance.
Can Dukux Diamond be touched up "invisibly"?
bennno said:
motco said:
I was a dedicated Dulux fan but once I had all my white gloss turn yellow in a few months I decided I'd be buying anything but Dulux!
If you get water based of any brand it doesn’t yellow. It’s only oil based that yellows, worse than ever due to regulatory changes.rossyl said:
F&B Estate Emulsion
This CANNOT be touched up. You immediately notice it.
That for me is a deal breaker. One mark, and you are left with having to repaint the entire wall!
Johnstone CovaPlus Vinyl Matt
2012 - whole house painted in F&B matched colours using Johnstones Codes.
2019 - house still looked generally fresh.
2019 - We touched up sections of wall, large and small. Areas painted blended perfectly, you could not see any touch ups.
That for me, is incredible.
If we could have a chart of how "invisible" touch ups are. That, for me, if of key importance.
Can Dukux Diamond be touched up "invisibly"?
We have Jabot white, the incredible thing is, its exactly the same shade as polycell filler negating any touch ups. This CANNOT be touched up. You immediately notice it.
That for me is a deal breaker. One mark, and you are left with having to repaint the entire wall!
Johnstone CovaPlus Vinyl Matt
2012 - whole house painted in F&B matched colours using Johnstones Codes.
2019 - house still looked generally fresh.
2019 - We touched up sections of wall, large and small. Areas painted blended perfectly, you could not see any touch ups.
That for me, is incredible.
If we could have a chart of how "invisible" touch ups are. That, for me, if of key importance.
Can Dukux Diamond be touched up "invisibly"?
Trustmeimadoctor said:
For me these brushes https://www.mypaintbrush.co.uk/buy-paint-brush/ang...
Main improvement I've made on top getting decent brushes is changing how I clean them. A mix of brush cleaner and brush restorer is handy for getting the paint out, but giving them a good soak/rinse in some Screwfix degreaser/cleaner (neat or dilute) is brilliant at flushing out any paint, pigment or cleaner that's left behind. Then a quick rinse and done.
You think you've got them nice and clean then all the extra rubbish comes out in the degreaser.
Not tried it on a roller yet (for what that's worth) but I suspect it'd work better than my previous efforts at cleaning those.
Rollers I just rinse the heck out of, squeeze dry by hand and leave to dry somewhere. Seems to work fine for emulsion though I don’t mix colours on the same roller. Similar for water based paint on brushes.
Oil based paints on brushes I can’t be bothered to clean these days tbh. I wait until I have a reasonable amount of painting to do, then use the same brush but wrapped in clingfilm overnight. At the end of the job I throw it away.
I’ve come to regard even good quality brushes and rollers as semi disposable these days, when paint costs £50 for 5l of Dulux or £90 for 5l of designer paint.
Oil based paints on brushes I can’t be bothered to clean these days tbh. I wait until I have a reasonable amount of painting to do, then use the same brush but wrapped in clingfilm overnight. At the end of the job I throw it away.
I’ve come to regard even good quality brushes and rollers as semi disposable these days, when paint costs £50 for 5l of Dulux or £90 for 5l of designer paint.
pquinn said:
Trustmeimadoctor said:
For me these brushes https://www.mypaintbrush.co.uk/buy-paint-brush/ang...
Main improvement I've made on top getting decent brushes is changing how I clean them. A mix of brush cleaner and brush restorer is handy for getting the paint out, but giving them a good soak/rinse in some Screwfix degreaser/cleaner (neat or dilute) is brilliant at flushing out any paint, pigment or cleaner that's left behind. Then a quick rinse and done.
You think you've got them nice and clean then all the extra rubbish comes out in the degreaser.
Not tried it on a roller yet (for what that's worth) but I suspect it'd work better than my previous efforts at cleaning those.
Vincent-Vega said:
That's not the case at all, we live in an old barn conversion and have the walls all in Wimborne white estate emulsion and it touches in perfectly, completely invisible.
I have the same view, one mark with Estate emulsion and you need to repaint the wall. Depends how fussy you are but it’s impossible to get the sheen to match. F&B Looks great and goes on beautifully but marks really easily, even just by touching itpquinn said:
Not tried it on a roller yet (for what that's worth) but I suspect it'd work better than my previous efforts at cleaning those.
Easiest, but not quickest, way to clean a roller is to put the dirty roller cartridge (not the frame) in a bucket of warm water with a small ‘glug’ of washing liquid (the stuff you wash clothes with *not* washing up liquid).Leave overnight, empty (and you will find most of the paint in the bottom of the bucket) and repeat.
Following day the roller will just need a few seconds run under a cold tap to rinse out the remains.
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