"Chris Bartram" wrote in message
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On 16/08/11 19:26, Pete wrote:
Had a bit of a nightmare with this stuff the last few days. Basically I
rubbed down a rad, primed it. Then put one light coat of hammerite smooth
rad enamel. Lef it for the recommended 16 hours dry time.

Came to re-coat it and started applying paint, not to much not to little
and
it ran like a 3 year olds nose.

I'm no novice decorator but this is my first rad. From the sounds it
sounds
like I am using too much paint for it to run buuuut it doesn't spread
with
any less paint.

...No idea why I think may be rub it down and the rad spray stuff ? very
thin coat after thin coat. At this rate it would have been cheaper to buy
a
new rad and easier.

huff...


I had a nightmare with radiator paint years ago, so just used normal satin
'gloss' recently, which seems fine.

Hey Chris,

I've not heard of satin gloss before whats the deal with that ?

Radiator is awful from my first experience and bloody expensive! £11 for the
I think 500ml tin

It dries soo quickly and run like no mans business, you have to literally
put 4 odd really light coat with drying times of 16 hours for it to come out
decent. I noticed they sell it in aerosol which is £11 also but it dries 15
minutes a time before you can re-coat which isn't too bad.

I'm after a satin flat look for the radiator so wondering if the finish you
recommended would give me that as is gloss but also satin ?

Last time I touch enamel paint it so tricky to work with.