Anyine know of a supplier of exterior masonary paint with a decent range of colours?
I was looking for a very pale green (Sandtex used to do one called Spray Gree IIRC) but most places seem to have umpteen variations on "off white" and naff all else.
Yes. Take a look at products by Jotun, who are a Norwegian company. I have used some of their wood preservatives and coatings and the results have been excellent.
They also do masonry paint products called "Glamur" and "Max", and AFAIK, all are available in a broad range of colours - i.e. the distributor will blend any colour that you like from a match or from a spec.
There is a UK web site
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which is not that great other than to give a contact detail for brochures. These are worth getting but don't show many colours.
The Norwegian web site is better, and some sections are in English as well.
Go to
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and click on "Male ute" and then on the submenu "FargeVelger". This will give you an interactive colour tool where you can switch to English (Engelsk) and then select a house view that is reasonable. Most are wood, of course, but for the exercise of looking at a colour on a surface and other colours around it, it doesn't matter. You can then play around and tweak the colours, noting the number. This can be done from their palettes or you can pick your own.
WHat I did was to find the colours that I wanted (I needed two) and then bought a litre of each. I did test pieces and offered them up on the surfaces in question. The result was very true to the photo tool.
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