Paint choices

[plasticpigeon]

Hello all. Please humour me. I am planning to paint the bay window of my house and i don't want to go down the linseed route as i am painting outside and want the paint to dry in a reasonable time. I bought some little green oil based eggshell and have painted a couple of windows on the back north facing side of the house with it, and it has started to peel off the putty after only a year. One window left in Dulux undercoat only has fared well so I plan to use Dulux. However I went to my local dulux shop and I realise they don't make solvent based satin paint, however, they make something called ultimate opaque, which they describe as an opaque woodstain (which sounds like paint to me). This doesn't need a coloured undercoat, just a wood preserving primer, which is pretty much colourless. Has anyone got experience of this, or should I just buy gloss!!

P. S. Sikkens Rubbol is also described as an opaque woodstain.

http://www.duluxtradepaintexpert.co.uk/products/dulux-trade/ultimate-opaque

 

[Moo]

I have a feeling that we used that opaque wood stain on the door case of our Norwich house nearly fifteen years ago. I, too, wanted something hardwearing and non-shiny that would withstand the traffic muck (we fronted straight on to a busy main road, with no front garden to act as a buffer).
It was (and as far as I know, still is) brilliant - we'd occasionally give it a wash, but apart from that we just ignored it, and it came up as good as new.

ps. We used a pale stone colour.

 

[plasticpigeon]

Well that's good to know, thanks, I shall try it out. If it gives a good finish, needs no undercoat and lasts 15 years next to a busy road, why is it not more widely known about??? It was seen as a bit of a niche product in the shop, and although the salesman knew it was satin, coloured and solvent based and was guaranteed for 10 years, he couldn't tell me why it wasn't marketed as a paint but as an opaque woodstain!!!

 

[LadyArowana]

Well that's good to know, thanks, I shall try it out. If it gives a good finish, needs no undercoat and lasts 15 years next to a busy road, why is it not more widely known about??? It was seen as a bit of a niche product in the shop, and although the salesman knew it was satin, coloured and solvent based and was guaranteed for 10 years, he couldn't tell me why it wasn't marketed as a paint but as an opaque woodstain!!!

Maybe there is some obscure EU rule that says certain things apply to "paint" but not to "opaque woodstain" ?

 

[Moo]

Thanks are two-way in this case - you've reminded me that it's just what we need to use when we finally get round to sorting out the outside of our little house.

 

[88v8]

Sikkens XD with Sikkens Rubbol undercoat.
If necessary for workability, thin the XD with Owatrol oil.
Second-best, Sikkens AZ.
Zinsser primer.

It's gloss... :shock: gloss lasts....

Ivor

 

[Moo]

But I don't want gloss all over my door case.
The only place for gloss is on the front door.