looking for masonry paint with reflective/luminescent properties

Solar-powered lighting? Battery-powered movement-sensitive lighting?

I find these very effective, and they work year round, unlike some solar..

A shufti on Amazon brings this up, along with many others:

Under £13 on Black Friday deal.

One user mentions using rechargeable batteries, which would reduce the running costs to practically nothing.

I have sorta-considered something like this, but have heard many stories about poor quality, short life etc. If anyone has specific recommendations I would be glad to hear of them.

Thanks J^n

I've used some Mr Beams motion sensor single spotlights for some years - still going strong, seem well made. I think an important thing is the batteries they take - these take 3 x (NiMh rechargeable) C cells. So quite high capacity, charge them up maybe twice a year.

Thanks, that is useful. Good point about the battery size/capacity ... although I have a suspicion that at least some 'C-cell' NiMh cells are really just AA with some padding. Back in the day I had some D-size NiCads which I used to start a glow model aero engine...

J^n

Ah those were the days. I had a 2,2v lead acid battery. No dim gloplugs there!

Can you find reflective tape that would stick to masonry? This is probably unsuitable, but it gives an idea:

Not this brand, but I have had the same design lights (2 off) up around the house and (1 off) pointing at the garden steps for circa 5 years.

I had to scrap one light because the seal failed and it would fill up with rainwater. The others are fine.

I feed them with alkaline batteries (D cell, 4 per light) and have just used up a batch of 20 batteries that I bought over 2 years ago, so they aren't too expensive to run.

P.S. I'm not sure how they would do on ordinary rechargeables since, at full charge, the lights would only see 4.8V and not the 6V they are designed for.

I have not seen any that I would trust for this application; it strikes me that the edges of a step are one of the trickiest places for any such tape. And as it happens these edges are a bit irregular...

The world is awash with glow in the dark paint for concrete. e.g.

I have seen the 'Coo-Var' paint, but was hoping for something a bit cheaper...

Perhaps line marking spray paint could be an option. Cheap (Toolstation etc) & probably need refreshing from time to time.

Google it., plenty of lesser brands

Well (of course) I have already done that ... but if members of this newsgroup have some solid experience then that is IMO a superior approach.

You can get the tiny glass sphere's they sprinkle on white lines in roads, but they need a light source shone on them, probably come in 25kg sacks too

I've used anti slip tape about 10mm from a (smooth) concrete step edge and it's lasts over a year before needing replacement, and then not because it's completely failed. The roll I have is black but I see that screwfix now do a yellow/black version

Prior to this I used some white masonry paint mixed with a bit of sharp sand on the surface of the step. That lasted a couple of years but wore off in patches.

For other applications I've found that the fluorescent paint in a rattle can loses much of the fluorescent properties rather quickly in exterior applications.

What about a yellow road marking type product that is on a roll and fixed with a blow torch?