[Tech1] Farrow & Ball Paint

[Mike Giles]

I quite like Sadolin which is available in a range of colours and needs no primer or undercoat. It gives a reasonable gloss finish on planed timber, but I’ve used it quite effectively on rougher wood like gravel board. 

I absolutely agree about the water based rubbish which came with our shed and new fencing a year or three ago. It creates a real problem when it wears unevenly as the creocote type of treatment won’t soak in where the water based paint remains reasonably sound and the prospect of cleaning it off thoroughly from a shed and fifty or sixty feet of fencing is quite unappealing, if not impossible!

Mike G

> On 22 May 2020, at 08:38, Mike Jordan via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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> The moral of the story is to buy proper oil based paints everywhere. Also if painting a shed or especially a fence, but Creocote (available at most professional places and even B&Q) which is almost as good as Creosote and will last for ages! It is a joy to see it soak in and last not like this waterbased cr*p that people put on fences now.
> My neighbour had a new fence – all hideously bright orange from the preservative – and I wasn’t allowed to paint my side as that invalidated his guarantee. However he did give me an offcut which I used in my rear fence (house fences at rear don’t quite line up here!) and after letting Creocote dry after about 3 days it is now nice and dark and still good.
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> Same with a new front door/frame/panels I had done (over 80years old). Door is gloss oil paint which had to be done in their sealed room in S Wales and frame in waterbased stuff which is cracking and terrible and I officially wasn’t allowed to drill hole in it for door bell and alarm contact. The door cracked on joints (I live in the sunny side of the street) and they had to give me a temporary one and take it back to Wales to fill and repaint but at least they gave me spare paint to mend. AS they said, you just can’t get the wood nowadays. Most sealant around infills is cracked as also modern stuff.
> The side panels which were tongue and groove were at lest replaced with quality ply and gouged lines to resemble the T&G.
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> Their main London place turned out to be across the yard from where BBC OBs were just closing in Langley!!
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> Mike
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