Hi, Who sells the cheapest good quality magnolia exterior masonry paint at present? (That is to say, at which well-known builders' merchant or DIY shed?)
I need about 20L, and was shocked to find that my local Jewsons' is charging about 22 for 7.5L (and that was a special offer)!
TIA
Al
"AL_n" wrote in news:XnsA30DCF2D52A8Dzzzzzz@
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PS... I'd like something that will do the job in one coat. The walls have been painted magnolia before, and the paint is sound,; it's just got discoloured by the usual green stuff and black stuff that typically grows on exterior painted walls after a few years. Should I treat those areas withy bleach or anti-fungal spray, or can I just paint over them? The growth is very thin indeed.
Al
Pressure wash, then treat. If the paint is truly sound,that'll do the job, if not, then you need to repaint anyway.
When we were looking for good quality paint, we found Brewers (paint specialist) was cheapest at the time.
A good pressure wash should do for normal grime and algae. Moss gets into the mortar/stone and will grow back through the paint so needs to be killed off.
You might find that water jetting is all it needs. Be carefull, not to strip the paint off by standing too close.
I wash my house down once a year with the pressure jet machine, paint comes up like new. I have the smooth finish, dunno how you would go on with the non-smooth finish.
You will definitely need to clean off any algy and treat with anti-fungal stuff before you paint in the event it does need painting. BTW, the anti-fungal stuff you by is better than bleach.
Thats a good price! For some reason white is cheaper than colours.
snipped-for-privacy@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) wrote in news:licdh6$ijf$1 @dont-email.me:
Thanks to everyone for the replies. I appreciate the tip about pressure- washing. I will do that. I'd still like to repaint, because previous repainting has been done in patches, and the colour is not quite uniform throughout.
There is also a long (thin) crack stretching from soffit to the ground, where the rendering of the extension meets the rendering of the original house. I once tried covering and filling it with masonry paint, but it reappeared. So now I'm considering using a 1" strip of fine glass fibre chopped strand surface tissue (as used in grp), embedded within the paint layer. Has anyone tried anythingthing like this?
TIA
Al
Oh dear, is the render still sound either side for a foot or so and full length of the crack? If you tap it gently with a small hammer does it sound "solid" or "hollow"? Hollow means the render at that point is no longer properly bonded to the wall.
Think I'd rake the crack out to 1/8" to 1/4" wide almost full depth of the render and fill with a fine sand and cement mix. Depending on the surafce finish of the existing render that might be invisible once painted. I supect that a bit of glass tissue paint bonded on will always be visible as a strip.
"Dave Liquorice" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@srv1.howhill.co.uk:
The rendering sounds solid. Looking at it, it's not one single crack runnung from top to bottom, its a number of long hairline cracks that don't quite meet up. They really do look as though paint should be enough to cover them over. I think I'll try applying a thincker coat or several coats over the crack and I think that should do it. They are only hairline cracks, but they do look as though they are cracks in the rendering - presumably due to contraction, either due to drying out or...something else! It's where a block-build extension meets a solid stone part of the house. It was done 25 years ago, so I'm not too worried about it. There'so sign of any real problem peyond those those hairline cracks. I suppose it's only to be expected that on old 1850s solid stone building is going to move and expand differently than a modern cavity wall extension.
Thanks for your input though...
Al
The Medway Handyman wrote in news:8ct2v.281636 $ snipped-for-privacy@fx29.am:
ISTR that certain DIY sheds have a sale some time in early Spring. Perhaps I'll hang on in hope of a good one coming up...
Al
IME the longest lasting masonry paint by far is the pliolite solvent based from Johnstones and others. It's also the most expensive but magnolia is often on special
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