Thinning Paint.........Advise Please

[Paintbrush]

Any advice on thinning Johnstone's WB Aqua Satin, if possible - checked web site and pdf usage guide but no clues, overall superb paint although one or two issues with actual buying.

OT but vaguely relevant

Contacted Johnstone's head office for help in locating a local distributor, Johnstone's paint center (which is called something else) quoted 56 pounds per litre, Bunnings 19 pounds and onlline 19.99 delivered.

 

[opps]

Contacted Johnstone's head office for help in locating a local distributor, Johnstone's paint center (which is called something else) quoted 56 pounds per litre, Bunnings 19 pounds and onlline 19.99 delivered.

Dawes Paints in Hammersmith is about 30 metres away from the local Dulux Decorator Centre. Some of the Dulux paints at Dawes are half the price charged at the DDC.

I guess there is an element of manufacturers not wanting to be seen to be undercutting resellers.

 

[Paintbrush]

Dawes Paints in Hammersmith is about 30 metres away from the local Dulux Decorator Centre. Some of the Dulux paints at Dawes are half the price charged at the DDC.

I guess there is an element of manufacturers not wanting to be seen to be undercutting resellers.

Head office had to remind the manager to respond three times before he replied, think this was more along the lines of not wanting to supply retail. Completely going off topic, the on-line shop who were super helpful supplied i litre which was short of finishing the job, no problem re-ordered same paint but emailed to ensure exact match as halfway through decorative fence.

Paint arrived, started panting only see immediately it's the wrong colour, way too dark - got onto the seller taking two pics for comparison, new tin on the way, only question was which shade of grey did it match?

After a few days no paint I decided to take a gamble and finish off with the darker colour, hoping I could either complete the job or the new colour would match - seller in the meantime had stopped communicating so no help there.

Ran out of paint with one side to do, Saturday knock at the door - chap with tin of paint wrongly delivered...yaaaa.. err no..it turned out to be the lighter shade ..doh!!

 

[opps]

Any advice on thinning Johnstone's WB Aqua Satin, if possible - checked web site and pdf usage guide but no clues, overall superb paint although one or two issues with actual buying.

Floetrol

https://www.owatroldirect.co.uk/product/floetrol/

Shop around for better prices.

 

[Paintbrush]

Floetrol

https://www.owatroldirect.co.uk/product/floetrol/

Shop around for better prices.

Thanks, I'll give it a look - btw, that was my round-the-houses way of explaining why I needed to thin paint, stretch it to finish job.

 

[Paintbrush]

If it's water based, can you just not add ..water?

 

[stealthwolf]

Wish I'd seen this thread sooner. I used acrylic primer as undercoat for painting over previously painted wallpaper. I hadn't bothered to thin it down and there were brush marks where I had cut in. Although I've done two coats and it's now not so obvious, except on the wall that hard dark blue paint on it. I plan to give it another 1-2 coats and hopefully will be better once the paint is thinned down.

Given that paint cans are 5 litres and 10% means 500ml water, what do you use to hold the paint? I have a paint scuttle and a flat roller tray. Do I just thin as I need more paint or is it better to use some sort of other container?