Blown vinyl v. 'proper' anaglypta.

Ret. · 2011-05-24T06:46:38+00:00

On the few occasions that I have used paintable blown vinyls, I have always regretted it because of its vulnerability to 'scrapes'.Carry a suitcase up or down the stairs and catch it on the wall - and you can end up with the blown vinyl just being scraped off the paper. Smaller scrapes can be created with a ring - or even just a finger nail or a watch. Because of this I just wont use the stuff - because there is really no effective way to repair such a 'scrape'. You can paint it over, of course, but you cannot repair the damaged pattern.Unfortunately, availability of genuine anaglypta is poor - and their patterns have not changed for donkey's years. My personal view is that embossed anaglypta is significantly superior to blown vinyl because of its resistance to damage - and I cannot understand why it is not more widely used - and why more patterns are not available.

May 24, 2011 22 Replies

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Andy Dingley 15 years ago

Some friends (architect & record label magnate) had lino laid in their dining room a while back - the real deal stuff. Even that didn't cost this much.

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Nick Odell 15 years ago

Which was round about the time I carpeted the entire inside of my Commer Dress Van as part of the process of turning it into a camper. By golly, the Evo-stick smelt good in those days!

Nick

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Andy Dingley 15 years ago

If you remember the smell of the Evo-Stik, you weren't there with the real Evo-stik, Man.

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