DIY store paint is not great - better to pay a little more and use a pro decorator supplier IME.
all of the DIY stores seem to be at it, it’s £17 in Wicks but the larger size is more expensive than B&Q I thought Brilliant White matt was about a tenner
https://www.diy.com/departments/dulu.../298927_BQ.prd
DIY store paint is not great - better to pay a little more and use a pro decorator supplier IME.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Try buying paint in France. You'll be selling your Rolex to finance painting a whole house!
I have just sold a load on eBay. I'm clearing out after a defaulting garage renter.
You're not anywhere near Manchester are you?
Or anyone else wanting white emulsion?
We sell paint amongst other things at work, some of the suppliers have already had two price increases this year, and supply is patchy to boot.
There is no rip off, you're comparing a premium brand vinyl matt at B+Q prices with contract matt bought from a builders' merchants. They aren't remotely the same product, if you'd gone to a decorators' merchant you could still get 10 ltr of contract white for £13-14. Anybody buying anything from b+q deserves to get their pants pulled down
homebase are doing the same thing with plants this year, for the last 6+yrs ive paid around £4-6 for a tray of 6-8 runner bean plants (same with tomatoes) - this year both are £4.50 per plant.
You think that’s bad, my Mrs once decided that she had to have a Farrow & Ball white at around £50 for a 2.5l tin.
It’s white FFS!
Fortunately, she seems happy using Dulux at the moment.
Timber is going up about 15% pm at the moment too.
I wish it was just a couple of quid on paint I had to worry about.
Our whole house extension is on hold as the price seems to have risen by £50k since January last year. Covid and Brexit - the perfect storm
until recently, the sheds were the cheapest for Dulux/Crown Brilliant white matt, there was always a wall of it pilled up at the front of the stores for less than a tenner, the merchant I normally use for everything else says he cant buy it for what they sell it for. opacity on most of the contract brands, Layland, Johnstons is rubbish
I remember when 5l tins of Crown Contract Matt Brilliant White were £4. It's not hard, it was only on Sunday when my eBay listing ended.
Last edited by unclealec; 27th April 2021 at 08:51.
Have you looked at Screwfix? Nothing wrong with Leyland paint, and even their Dulux is nearly half the B&Q price. https://www.screwfix.com/c/decoratin...gory=cat850168
This is your problem, if you just want the cheapest paint then it is not going to be the same quality as the paint bought from a decorators’ merchant , doesn’t matter if it’s dulux, crown or whatever brand.
As for the opacity of Leyland paint, it’s as good as it’s ever been
I just used Leyland Super Latex mat white emulsion, around £27 for 15 litres for all of my ceilings and for mist coating freshly plastered walls. Fantastic coverage and very good opacity. Highly recommended.
where we normally buy paint and decorating mataerials https://www.brewers.co.uk/stores/har...xoCT94QAvD_BwE
They sell quiet a lot of white paint https://www.brewers.co.uk/search?q=d...num_results=24
Last edited by adrianw; 27th April 2021 at 09:05.
So why not go to Brewers instead of B&Q then?
Haahhaa what?? Brewers completely sold out of contract, vinyl, Leytex white emulsion??? All brands??
Now I know you’re full of it
You’re comparing prices for contract Matt from a merchants and Dulux vinyl Matt from B&Q, completely different things. I’ll say it again there is no rip off, I’m paying the same for paint today that I was paying last year
You must be very special https://www.ft.com/content/e0fa8a81-...d-c6a4270fcd34
When you googled that you should’ve looked at the date, price rise mentioned six days ago so yes I’m paying same price as last year . Try harder
A new forum low: arguing about the price hike, or not, of paint.
Boring.
I'd rather watch paint dry (if I could afford it).
Travis Perkins has stock.
I think the profits were so high purely due to
demand last year, during the first lockdown materials were tricky to get , everywhere was caught out by the demand but shopping between several different suppliers usually got the job done, if you were local you’d be welcome to some out of my garage
A packet of Mr Fothergills Expensive Runner Bean Seeds, £3:60 for 50. Soak the beans overnight in water. 6-8 hours. Plant 1” deep in compost 50 runner bean plants, or save some for next year.
But if you save 6 runner beans each year, you never have to buy again!!!
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Begs the question why do they make an inferior product for us amateur decorators.