Best paint deal about?

[John Rumm]

In case anyone is looking for a good deal on paint...

A mate is doing a house refurb prior to letting, so he asked me to get some paint for him while I was shopping. I happened to be in Makro, and noticed they had some 'kin big tins on special offer. I managed to get a

20L bucket of emulsion for about 15 quid inc VAT. It is branded simply as "trade emulsion", but the manufacturers address gives it away as a Kalon product (aka Layland, Johnstones etc). Having seen it in action I can report it actually does the job very well.

(they were also flogging Johnstones branded tubs at approx £12/10L - still a good enough price but not quite as good as the big buckets).

[Jay]

there's a paint manufacturers in Heckmondwike that let you walk in and pay cash even for small orders, they make paint for Wickes amongst others. I havent bought any from there in a while, but I remember when I did I was getting it at nearly a third of the price Wickes were selling it.

[RedOnRed]

The cheapest coloured paint freely available on shelves must be Wicke's trade stuff in the big 10 litre tubs for under a tenner.

I used some on two rooms about 5 years ago, it went on well and it still looks alright.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

And now your stuck with 8.5 Litres. ;-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[RedOnRed]

Hmmm, you may have a valid point there.

But even so, it was remarkably cheap colour paint - even if they do have the cheek to give you too much of it.