Finish on water based painted shelf is easily marked

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I decided to spruce up some shelves, which had previously been painted with white oil based paint, with Dulux Pure Brilliant White QuickDry Satinwood paint, which is water based. I firstly sanded the shelves, washed and dried them and then gave them 2 coats of the Dulux. They look fine but if anything is placed on them it leaves a mark or even takes a bit of the paint off when it's removed. Is there any solution to this?
 
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Thanks Robbie. I took all the shelves down to paint them and I think it was a while before I put them back up, more than two three weeks I think.
 
I'm afraid that water based paint will never be as hard wearing as oil based paints are. You could try a coat of clear or matt varnish, but again, you'd want yacht varnish rather than polyuearathane or acrylic.
 
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I'm afraid that water based paint will never be as hard wearing as oil based paints are. You could try a coat of clear or matt varnish, but again, you'd want yacht varnish rather than polyuearathane or acrylic.
Ah, ok, might give that a go. Thanks.
 

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