lesson learnt - properly lidding my oil-based gloss even when painting days apart

I think I had sealed the lid improperly, allowing some of the solvent to escape... No smell though and happened in less than a week..

But when I went to open my nice, expensive Crown Trade Gloss today, it had a sort of soft skin on the top, and around the edge of the main body of paint.

I'm a tad annoyed as I have been using it for less than 4 weeks, and had the lid quite tight - thankfully, my main job has finished, but the rest of the tin is now wasted - Garage door and eaves will now have to wait because I'm not buying more.

So as I was finishing the 2nd coat of the last 7 balustrades, the paint in the tin was skinning up between dipping my brush in! I had to use a spare brush to keep dragging the newly formed skin out before loading my brush

Whitling2k said:

But when I went to open my nice, expensive Crown Trade Gloss today, it had a sort of soft skin on the top, and around the edge of the main body of paint.

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You can thin it down with a bit of white spirit, and get the lumps out with one of those cheap electric 'stick' blenders or strain it through some tights.

even when it's forming a skin within 2-3 minutes? it's like the anti-skinning solvent has gone. It still went on the same, and has so far dried the same, but it takes 5 times longer to paint with.

guess I have nothing to loose by trying though ta

It is also quite warm weather at the moment which will affect the paint.

I'm in discussion with Crown customer service as we speak, I'll post the result.