On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:43:28 GMT, (Peter Ashby)
wrote:

|!EricP wrote:
|!
|! On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:29:32 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
|! wrote:
|!
|! I am trying to get a paint to match one of the colours present in my wood
|! effect PVC windows. Just been to the local B&Q warehouse and found that
|! both the B&Q system and the Dulux system only produce standard if wide
|! ranges of colours, none of which are what I want. The Dulux system has a
|! system which scans a sample, but can only recommend and produce one of the
|! wide range of Dulux colours.
|!
|! Clearly it would be possible to produce a system which would give an
|! infinite range of colours, one of which would produce a match for my PVC
|! windows.
|!
|! Does such a system exist?
|!
|! Remembering the extensive advertising for these systems in the past, I
|! am staggered that they don't do exactly what you wanted. I thought
|! that was the point of having them and the large plant to deliver the
|! paint. You took your funny colour in, they scanned it and that colour
|! came out of the spout into the tin.
|!
|! This is bad news for me.
|!
|!What is bad news for us is that in our rolling program of redecorating,
|!having painted two radiators with appropriately tinted radiator paint on
|!the last trip to Homebase (the B&Q doesn't do it) we were informed they
|!were phasing it out. We were tempted to precipitately decide on the
|!lounge wall colour there and then. Sanity however prevailed. The
|!radiator in the small bedroom really disapears into the wall. The hall
|!one is not as good as it is a double but it is a lot less obvious. And
|!having taken it off and stripped the many layers of paint (at least one
|!of which was NOT radiator paint) it no longer looks like an amorphous
|!blob. It took two sets of Nitromors to get it reasonable.

All is not *completely* lost.
The Dulux range of mixed paints is as I said *wide* about 800,
http://www.dulux.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...51&l angId=-1
Never trust colours on a computer screen get the shade cards.
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