road marking quality flourescent paint

[Jim Hawkins]

Where can one get the proper stuff ? All the ads I can find are for tiny pots of toy-quality stuff.

Jim Hawkins

[John Williamson]

Using the search string "road marking paint" in Google shopping returns dozens of hits for various colours in sizes from 1 litre to rather larger. You can even get it in aerosol spray cans, and the supplier will also sell you a wheeled trolley to hold the can while it squirts the line, giving a sharp edge to the line. Johnstone Paints seem to be one of the main makers

If it's a major job and you want the paint to be proud of the surface, it might be worth getting some contractors in and have them use the officially approved thermoplastic stuff with the retroreflective glass beads in it, which seems to come in 25 kilogramme bags and needs a large boiler with a built in mixing paddle to melt. If you want it to be noticeably proud of the surface, you'll need the thermoplastic stuff anyway. It ain't cheap, though....

[Dave Liquorice]

What do you mean by "flourescent"?

Glows when illuminated by UV light. Glows in the dark for a time without illumination. A vivid bright colour in ordinary light, aka "day-glo". Retro reflective like offical road markings/signs.

[F Murtz]

May be you can cook cakes with it?

[Nthkentman]

Where can one get the proper stuff ? All the ads I can find are for tiny pots of toy-quality stuff.

ARCO

They have a webshyte

[Brian Gaff]

Is it not in two parts, an undercoat and a top coat? Brian

[Andy Burns]

Round here, someone took to unofficially re-painting the zebra crossing over the course of two nights, dunno what paint they used but it hasn't lasted well ...

[Scion]

Andy Burns put finger to keyboard:

Some idiot round my way decided to paint an extra zebra crossing on one of the main through roads. How anyone so stupid managed to get the black- white-black-white sequence in the correct order is a mystery.