Dulux Satinwood

Good god alive, how awful is this stuff? Dulux, good name. Satinwood, well I'm doing wood. It says Buttermilk on the tin but I don't think it's the colour as it's a far better description of its consistency and coverage. I was going to say opacity too but I actually bet a pot of Elmlea would do better.

I've just used used it on an MDF pipe cover that I undercoated this morning (trad hi-VOC stuff) and it's actually *beading* on the top surface. On the front face it's just rolling off it.

It's not even this batch as a tin found at the back of the cupboard from a few years ago is exactly the same.

On the tin it says apply two coats with a warning that strong colours might need yet more. I'd insert a comparison with the Forth Bridge, but they've stopped! Some of the skirting also to do is dark blue - I could be here until the end of recorded time.

I reckon that I'd be better off using the matching coloured emulsion.

Scott

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Scott M
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I reckon Wilkinsons paint is better than Dulux, and a third less.

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The Medway Handyman

In article , Scott M writes

Hi-VOC so 16hrs between coats?

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fred

That or the Satinwood is water not oil based...

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Dave Liquorice

There are special primers for MDF.

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harry

The undercoat'd gone on no differently to any other surface I've ever slapped it onto. Raised the knap/"grain" of the MDF a bit but which I imagine a proper primer wouldn't, but otherwise it was dry and a solid surface.

Scott

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Scott M

Spot of nice weather and soaky MDF and it'd gone off nicely. Didn't smell which is the normal sign of hiVOC wanting to take a week to go off. The beading (should have said "sheeting") just seems to be this paints utter non-stickiness. Thinking about it, I had something similar a while[1] ago when doing part of the pre-primed shelf that's getting the same paint. Something must had got onto the surface (jam, fingerprints, day-to-day things) and as it wasn't super-chemically clean, it just wouldn't spread over it. Ended up wiping a chunk off and having to slap some sort of base coat on it.

Basically, Satinwood doesn't adhere to a damn thing when wet. Hardly surprising when it comes out of the tin the consistency of single cream.

Scott

[1] This is one of those jobs I keep coming back to in dribs & drabs.
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Scott M

In article , Scott M writes

I used it for one room in the past (Dulux satinwood old style Hi-VOC that is) and wasn't impressed with the finish or ease of application so moved over to solvent (and now acrylic) eggshell for anything that needed that sort of finish.

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fred

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