Dave Fawthrop wrote:

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...ndingView?stor
eId=10752&catalogId=10051&langId=-1
Never trust colours on a computer screen get the shade cards.

Matching a colour is not the problem. The problem is they no longer mix
shades for Hammerite radiator paint. So you are limited to the limited
off the shelf range of primaries. It's not much use having access to a
paint mixing machine if they won't mix the colours into the base of your
choice.

Peter
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