Buying paint

[Andy Burns]

The septics don't fare much better, I had a glance at some Home Depot prices for white gloss

1 quart (~1 litre) for $14 (£8.50) 5 gallons (~19 litres) for $135 (£83)

presumably plus taxes.

[meow2222]

I've wondered that too. Where do you get white pigment for oil paint cheaply, ie not lime?

NT

[JimK]

/ I've wondered that too. Where do you get white pigment for oil paint cheaply, ie not lime?

NT /q

How much do you imagine you need?

Jim K

[fred]

In article , Andrew Gabriel writes

Did you mean to say, " . . . . and they have _yet_ to find some alternatives which work anywhere near as well."

That's certainly my view.

[Johny B Good]

It's also used in Dye Solar Cells. I don't know whether the price spike was anything to do with this recent technology development or not. Maybe someone has decided to mass produce Dye Solar Cells and increased demand for Titanium dioxide by a sudden and significant amount. Just a thought (if not this, perhaps something else?).

[John Williamson]

I first heard about those roughly six years ago, and as they can be made virtually transparent, the idea was to put the coating on office windows, and use the power while reducing the cooling load in Summer. Pennies per square metre, for a power of a couple of watts per square metre.

[spuorgelgoog]

White lead / lead carbonate is USD 240 / tonne.

Of course I don't know how many tonnes you need of white lead compared to tit dioxide in paint.

Owain

[Andrew Gabriel]

That's certainly the case for gloss paint. They can't match the original 'wet' look of dried gloss, and found the binders which some new paints use change colour rather quickly after they set, wrecking white gloss colour in particular.

and the paint industry's.

[mike]

So the bank owns your home?

[spuorgelgoog]

It's the modern equivalent of having a payphone so the kids can pay for their calls.

Owain

[Andrew]

There are too many words in that sentence. :-)

All you needed to say was "The EU keeps banning products (that either work or compete with German products)"

[Andrew]

Visit your Dulux decorator centre, and you'd be suprised what Akzo Nobel now own

[Andy Burns]

Dulux International Glidden Hammerite Sikkens Sadolin Cuprinol

any more?

[The Medway Handyman]

If you have a Wilkinsons near, their paint is very good and very good value.

[fred]

Feel free to rearrange into a sentence starting with:

It Sikkens me what Akzo Nobel has done with . . . . . .

[meow2222]

Which of their paints do you know or good, or have you used the lot? Think I'll try going Wilko, Dulux is getting unnecessarily (I think) pricey.

NT

[Mike Clarke]

Sadolin is owned by Akzo Nobel but the Sadolin website firmly says "Crown Paints" at the bottom of the page. The Crown website lists Crown, Sandtex, Sadolin and Berger as their product.

But the odd thing is that

lists Sadolin among their huge list of brands but not Berger, Crown or Sandtex.

[polygonum]

Crown is owned by Hempel...

[Chris French]

In message , JimK writes

You can buy Titanium Dioxide easily enough from companies that supply pigments.

eg. 1kg for £15 on ebay: which would probably make a fair bit of paint.