On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:56:18 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


As long as you can avoid frost and rain for the duration of the job, the
time of year shouldn't have much bearing on a properly done job.

You don't get much frost in York.

Rain, however ... :-(

That's why decorators' merchants sell a lot of pliolite masonry paint
in the autumn. (I'm told that if it's been on the wall more than 15-20
minutes it won't get washed off by rain.)