Dulux Endurance rubbish

[dal5band]

Just started painting the kitchen walls with Dulux Endurance - it is rubbish. It slakes immediately even though I have added water to slow the drying.
I did a base coat of white emulsion then tried the colour Endurance - you have about a minute to keep the "interface" moving. If you take a few minutes doing an edge say and you over-paint , it immediately comes with the brush, leaving patches. There is no going back !! The walls are good plaster, with paint on them, plus I did a coat of white emulsion to even things up.

Well the unopened tins ARE going back. The worst paint I have ever had.

Dulux Endurance

• dal5band
• 2 Apr 2015
• 1

Dulux Endurance

 

[dcdec]

Dulux retail paints don't like being thinned, don't really know what you mean by "slakes".

 

[dal5band]

I think slake means it sucks up water -- anyway it dries so quickly that it drags off with the brush if you go back within even a minute or so. The previous coat of ordinary white emulsion went on without any problems.

 

[JohnD]

kitchen, you say.

How did you clean the walls?

 

[dal5band]

steamed off od wallpaper, then washed down with sugar soap water.
In any case, painted with a coat of white emulsion with no problem.

Added : I just read a post from last year where someone did the cutting in with a brush and then went to paint the rest with a roller - he said the cutting in came off and stuck to the roller.

 

[JohnD]

yes, I've had that on dirty sections of wall.