Tad traditionalist me so woodwork indoors (doors, skirtings, bannisters
etc) gets painted white gloss, but the smell, runiness etc when
applying mean Glossing is a complete chore, yellowing means it is
supposed to be done every six months or so, ((AIUI) to help avoid
yellowing water based Gloss should be used but the runniness is caused
by it being water based). So does anyone use satin finish paint and
does anyone have a favourite paint for same?

Crown and Dulux white glosses seem to get bad reviews on the B&Q
website.

Low odour and quick drying are a must.

On 22/02/2014 13:06, soup wrote:

Tad traditionalist me so woodwork indoors (doors, skirtings, bannisters
etc) gets painted white gloss, but the smell, runiness etc when
applying mean Glossing is a complete chore, yellowing means it is
supposed to be done every six months or so, ((AIUI) to help avoid
yellowing water based Gloss should be used but the runniness is caused
by it being water based). So does anyone use satin finish paint and
does anyone have a favourite paint for same?

Crown and Dulux white glosses seem to get bad reviews on the B&Q
website.

Low odour and quick drying are a must.

Yellowing isn't really the problem with water based glosses: Solvent
based ones yellow much more quickly. Most water-based give a poor
finish and are not very durable, plus they don't adhere well to a
previously-glossed surface.

Don't know about satin but the last paintwork I did, I used Johnstone's
aqua gloss. It seems to be a bit of a hybrid between water and solvent
based. Low odour, quick drying but a fair impression of a 'proper'
gloss as well, ie reasonably glossy and pretty tough-looking. I was
painting bare timber so went through primer - undercoat x2 - gloss x 2.
I don't know how it would go on over existing gloss, but the blokey in
the Johnstone's shop said it should be ok with a light rub down and one
coat of undercoat.

The downside is that it's not cheap: 2.5L of each of gloss and udner
coat came to about 50 quid. And it's not available in the regular B&Q
type places, so you have to find one of their outlets.

On 22/02/2014 13:06, soup wrote:

Tad traditionalist me so woodwork indoors (doors, skirtings, bannisters
etc) gets painted white gloss, but the smell, runiness etc when
applying mean Glossing is a complete chore, yellowing means it is
supposed to be done every six months or so, ((AIUI) to help avoid
yellowing water based Gloss should be used but the runniness is caused
by it being water based). So does anyone use satin finish paint and
does anyone have a favourite paint for same?

Crown and Dulux white glosses seem to get bad reviews on the B&Q
website.

Low odour and quick drying are a must.

I'm a big fan of Wilkinsons paint, especially the one coat stuff.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Huge wrote:
On 2014-02-22, soup wrote:

Tad traditionalist me so woodwork indoors (doors, skirtings, bannisters
etc) gets painted white gloss, but the smell, runiness etc when
applying mean Glossing is a complete chore, yellowing means it is
supposed to be done every six months or so,

You what? Some of my interior woodwork was last painted 20 years ago and
certainly isn't going to be done again!

SUPPOSED !
More like six years chez soup.

In article , GMM
GlMiMa-AT-yahoo.co.uk@?.? writes

Yellowing isn't really the problem with water based glosses: Solvent
based ones yellow much more quickly. Most water-based give a poor
finish and are not very durable, plus they don't adhere well to a
previously-glossed surface.

Don't know about satin but the last paintwork I did, I used Johnstone's
aqua gloss. It seems to be a bit of a hybrid between water and solvent
based. Low odour, quick drying but a fair impression of a 'proper'
gloss as well, ie reasonably glossy and pretty tough-looking. I was
painting bare timber so went through primer - undercoat x2 - gloss x 2.
I don't know how it would go on over existing gloss, but the blokey in
the Johnstone's shop said it should be ok with a light rub down and one
coat of undercoat.

The downside is that it's not cheap: 2.5L of each of gloss and udner
coat came to about 50 quid. And it's not available in the regular B&Q
type places, so you have to find one of their outlets.

I agree with all you have said and also like Johnstones, my local outlet
will price match online prices, I phoned first to ask the general
question (answered, bring in a printout of an online price and we will
match) and he nearly fainted when he saw the price I had grabbed online,
better than most of his frequent trade buyers get, but he honoured the
deal.

I'm using their acrylic eggshell but as you say, the finish isn't a
patch on old full fat.
--
fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

On 22/02/2014 13:06, soup wrote:

Tad traditionalist me so woodwork indoors (doors, skirtings, bannisters
etc) gets painted white gloss, but the smell, runiness etc when
applying mean Glossing is a complete chore, yellowing means it is
supposed to be done every six months or so, ((AIUI) to help avoid
yellowing water based Gloss should be used but the runniness is caused
by it being water based). So does anyone use satin finish paint and
does anyone have a favourite paint for same?

Crown and Dulux white glosses seem to get bad reviews on the B&Q
website.

Low odour and quick drying are a must.

For indoor use, water-based non-drip gloss seems to work ok - and
doesn't yellow over-quickly. It doesn't run too easily either - but I
always remove large things like doors and lie them down to paint them.

One caveat though: *Don't* use water based paint on MDF windowsills
which might get wet. The water will get through to the MDF which will
swell up under the paint. BTDTGTTS!
--
Cheers,
Roger
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GMM wrote:
On 22/02/2014 13:06, soup wrote:

Tad traditionalist me so woodwork indoors (doors, skirtings, bannisters
etc) gets painted white gloss, but the smell, runiness etc when
applying mean Glossing is a complete chore, yellowing means it is
supposed to be done every six months or so, ((AIUI) to help avoid
yellowing water based Gloss should be used but the runniness is caused
by it being water based). So does anyone use satin finish paint and
does anyone have a favourite paint for same?

Crown and Dulux white glosses seem to get bad reviews on the B&Q
website.

Low odour and quick drying are a must.

Yellowing isn't really the problem with water based glosses: Solvent
based ones yellow much more quickly. Most water-based give a poor
finish and are not very durable, plus they don't adhere well to a
previously-glossed surface.

Don't know about satin but the last paintwork I did, I used Johnstone's
aqua gloss. It seems to be a bit of a hybrid between water and solvent
based. Low odour, quick drying but a fair impression of a 'proper'
gloss as well, ie reasonably glossy and pretty tough-looking. I was
painting bare timber so went through primer - undercoat x2 - gloss x 2.
I don't know how it would go on over existing gloss, but the blokey in
the Johnstone's shop said it should be ok with a light rub down and one
coat of undercoat.

The downside is that it's not cheap: 2.5L of each of gloss and udner
coat came to about 50 quid. And it's not available in the regular B&Q
type places, so you have to find one of their outlets.




Here in Aus we now have a new super glossy acrylic paint may be you also
have one in the uk?