Elderly paint

Emulsion: if its still liquid and not mouldy, it'll be fine. I'm not famililar with the other one

NT

Can't make a definitive statement but if it is still liquid, or usable jell, and you can mix it I would use it unless it was somewhere that is difficult to get to to paint. Try a little and see how it goes on and how it sets.

If it's convenient, before trying it take it to your local Crown Decorator Centre and ask them if they'll shake it for you. That'll save you trying to do it by hand.

Many thanks for all the advice, I will keep it. I need to use the Stronghold in the not too distant future, as for the emulsion I have just realised that it is magnolia which we have not used for a long time.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember rbel saying something like:

I found a couple of similar tins, one of gloss, one of emulsion, both around the same age as yours. The emulsion was fine, and the gloss was no longer a gel, but went on fine anyway. Both haven't peeled or fallen off yet.

Distemper's as good as new after half a century, if the formula's ok to begin with.

NT