house number on wheelie bin

intel

dora37 wrote:

We painted our number on our bin over 5 years ago in white emulsion on both the lid and the body of the bin and it still stands out a mile!

Are you sure thats emulsion as its Thixotropic water based, ie .water soluble.

Washes off in the rain.

Daniel_B

White gloss paint for me.

I didn't want to have to wash a paint brush out, so I used.........

Kitchen paper........

It's quite, shall we say, recognisable as my bin

Dan

Jay-Jay_4

Aye

I used magnolia eggshell emulsion on ours and two years on it's a bit chipped but you can definately still tell that it's ours

scheming_gypsy

i just grab whichever bin is left.

Mr_Proctalgia

If you suffer the same problems that I do - IE the scumbags and low life nick your wheelie then do as I did and burn in "Stolen from No. xx on the lid base and wheels!

And slop some Gloss paint around the hinges and fiddly bits - they cannot be bothered to clean it off.

intel

Dont forget that there is a serial number relating to the house number
just below the handles and it can be traced back to the owner.

Nile

muffinhead wrote:

did you use a gloss paint?


Did you use a gloss paint or regular emulsion?


The only reason I keep pushing the paint idea is because I have a tin that could be used up - it'd save me a few quid on buying some sticky numbers as well :rolleyes: !

Hello muffinhead

White gloss paint does work well, I painted our bins with it. I used a stencil and marked the bin with a fine point black pen first (for the outline), then filled it in with white gloss paint. As well as the house number, I added our street name too. It is a work of art:rolleyes: and has had admiring glances from our neighbour............no, really.:D

Moneysava_wannaB

Spray paint

dora37

intel wrote:

Are you sure thats emulsion as its Thixotropic water based, ie .water soluble.

Washes off in the rain.

Yep - just a bog standard one out of the garage, done in my own fair hand!

jockettuk

i got some free paint samples with the brushes and used that couldnt care what colour and if it fades you just touch it up.. if you got paint already does it matter if in time it chips or fades just touch it up like you would do any paint job..