Mixing floor paints

Lady_K

I have got a ronseal diamond hard 2.5 ltr floor paint in pebblestone, its way lighter than shown on the website in fact its the colour of sand.

I don't want to go to all the trouble of returning it to the online shop and wondered if it might work to mix 2 floor paints together or even another paint that isnt floor paint. This is a solvent based paint that you can wash the brush with water so I think its best I stick to a similar type.

The only other darker colours in the floor paint are black and various shades of grey, if I mixed any of these with it what colour would it roughly turn out?

I did originally wanted a brown colour but couldnt get it in a non slip so compromised with this as it appeared to be a mushroom kind of colour so some kind of mushroom to brown would better than the sand colour it is now.

Would mixing a water based ordinary paint such as wilko or dulux satin for wood etc be ok touse so I'd have more choices of colour to mix ith it?

Other thing I suppose is getting a paint dye but the paint would be quicker and easier to get hold of

keystone

Lady_K wrote: »

I have got a ronseal diamond hard 2.5 ltr floor paint in pebblestone, its way lighter than shown on the website in fact its the colour of sand.

Have you tried stirring it?

I don't want to go to all the trouble of returning it to the online shop and wondered if it might work to mix 2 floor paints together or even another paint that isnt floor paint.

Doubt it.

This is a solvent based paint that you can wash the brush with water ...................

Does not compute.

The only other darker colours in the floor paint are black and various shades of grey, if I mixed any of these with it what colour would it roughly turn out?

$64m question to be honest.

Would mixing a water based ordinary paint such as wilko or dulux satin for wood etc be ok touse so I'd have more choices of colour to mix ith it?

I think you'll render it unuseable.

Try giving it a very good stir or if you have a friendly paint supplier near you ask him to stick it on the shaker for a couple of minutes. Then see what the colour looks like.

Cheers

Meepster

Just to add onto what Keystone has said...

OP - I think you'll find that it is Water Based, not solvent based. But mixing it with any other product, other than a different colour of the same product, will cause it to not work as intended...

Lady_K

Thanks, I decided it wasnt worth messing with in the end and used the paint as it is. Its very light but its brightened the room and is clean so I'll see how it goes on wear and tear. I can always repaint it with a garage paint again which is what its been for the past 8 years.

Not sure why this happened though but I decided to use the floor paint to paint the wall below the dado rail too as it was already painted plaster and this has come out much darker, in fact it has turned out the colour I originally expected it to be, the colour on the paint chart. The paint was stirred constantly while doing both the floor and the wall and its definitely not the lighting. The floor is concrete and was previously painted in red brick garage paint and the wall was originally painted many colours sponge splatted and one of the colours on there was the garage paint too.

I have thought about it and I am wondering if it might have something to do with temperature as the painted plaster wall will be warmer than the cold concrete floor. I also thought it maybe some kind of chemical reaction but seeing as the wall had previously had splats of the red garage paint all over it before and it has now covered totally evenly with the floor paint I thought the temperature thing was more likely

It is a water based paint, I wrote it down wrong