magnolia paint

lacs144

I need to paint o whole house, interior and exterior. Any ideas on where to get magnolia paint at reasonable price and good quality please, so I can get away with only doing one coat?

ormus

forget it.
you wont do it in one coat. no matter what some may tell you.

Rosebery_2

ormus wrote: »

forget it.
you wont do it in one coat. no matter what some may tell you.

I totally agree with Ormus. You have zero chance. Are you really considering painting everything in the property inside and out with the same paint?

Cheers

markie1980

As pointed out above, you won't get a decent finish with one coat.
But for a reasonably good paint at a decent price, i use the 15l trade paint from wickes.

ixwood

One coat wouldn't look to bad if the walls are already light. White, cream, off white etc.

B & Q do big 10L tubs of it (and white for the ceilings) for around a tenner. I think I've seen good value tins in LIDL too.

I've used the B & Q stuff and didn't have a problem with it.

ormus

as been said, do not use the same stuff for the outside of the house. use the proper masonary paint.
sandtex or similar.

nickj_2

depnding on what state the walls are in and what colour you are trying to cover , dulux do 10ltr tubs of trade magnolia for around £40 ,

ormus

thats 4 times the price of BQ, wickes etc...

and it aint 4 times better.

OddjobKIA

10l paint for £10 is know as 10 coat paint....

go to a proper trade suppler in your area and speak to them

cally1_2

I bought 7.5 litres of Dulux Natural Hessian at Focus for £27.99. Not the cheapest but I am happy. I think a better colour than Magnolia.

vegasvisitor

Well, recently I bought a tub of white b&q value paint for about 3.99 - I think it was 2.5 litres, I bought it for ceilings. It was very watery though! I was also going to buy the magnolia from there too at the same time in the 10l tub for 10.99, but by chance on the end of an aisle they had crown magnolia for 10.49 I think (cheaper than the value stuff) so I bought that instead! I expected the crown stuff to be better and it was. I needed 2 coats on most of the house I was painting, and 3 coats on blue room and some dark red stripy wallpaper. I used 2 of the big tubs for a 2 bedroom new-build sized house.

As other posters have said, don't use this outside - I know homebase do their own outside paint quite cheap I expect B&Q etc do too.

As for Dulux hessian paint, someone posted that on hotukdeals today 10litre tub for about £16. http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/438794/10-litre-dulux-emulsion-in-calico-h/ it was at b&q