Be careful when using Wilko Durable paint

rosie383

I was so delighted to have finished two coats of Wilko's Durable paint on a bedroom wall. Dark grey as a feature wall against white walls so I used masking tape around the edges including top and bottom.

Half an hour after I finished the second coat I started to peel off the masking tape and the new paint peeled off with it! This paint is quite thick and seems to form a rubbery skin, so unless you went around all of the edges with a really sharp craft knife, this would happen I think.

I have never seen anything like it and looked on the paint tin in case I had missed a vital instruction to remove masking tape literally within a few minutes. No such instructions there, and when I rang their customer services they said they hadn't had a similar problem to their knowledge.

Has anyone else had a similar issue? I did put fresh masking tape on today, painted all of the ripped areas and removed the tape within seconds and it was fine.

Fair play to Wilkos who have arranged to give me another tin of paint as I had to open a new one just to do around all of the edges again as I had none left. I think they need to at least put a tip on their website saying to remove the tape asap after painting, but I thought I would maybe save even one person who may read this, from having the same problem that I had.

London50

I think these days a quick check online for most D I Y jobs will give instructions of how to do them. The big problem as I see it is many people {myself included at times} think that a job is straight forward so do not bother reading up on how to do it before they start and end up with problems.
Wilko IMHO do seem to go far further to help customers than some other companies these days and at least now you have the paint job done the way you hoped it would end up looking :0)

rosie383

There is a lot of info out there but even when I looked up about removing masking tape after this happened I didn't come across anything saying to remove it within a few minutes of painting. With this paint you honestly couldn't do one whole wall of paint and then remove the tape. You literally do have to take it off within minutes.
You can buy masking tape that is designed to stay on for days and I can see this exact thing happening even then.

ETA: I do have to say though that the finish (apart from the bits around the edges) is excellent and it does seem as if it is going to be very durable. The coverage isn't great though as it is a very thick paint by its nature. I did find a review online where someone else had exactly the same problem that I had.

jcb208

This will happen with all paints you need to use low tack tape and remove straight after painting while edges are still wet

rosie383

I have painted many, many times over the years, as has my dh and neither of us has seen anything like this. What about those masking tapes which say that you can remove up to 14 days later? The same thing would happen with those. Low tack has nothing to do with this as it is the paint which is on top of the tape, not underneath, which is peeling off like a skin.
If it had been the paint underneath the tape I wouldn't be surprised at all.

southcoastrgi

Or just get better at cutting in then you wouldn't need tape

penguingirl

Interestingly we've had this problem before and have used wilko paint, although I never attributed it to the paint- more just our inexperienced workmanship. The masking tape in our spare room is into its 3rd week now as we've been slow workers so we'll see how it comes off next weekend...

rosie383

Hope it comes off easily for you PG. Normal Wilko paint is fine. I've been using it for years. It's just this durable stuff around the edges. I have to say though it looks great on the wall.
And I'm rubbish at cutting in which is why I used the masking tape in the first place. Especially as it was dark grey against white.

casper_g

southcoastrgi wrote: »

Or just get better at cutting in then you wouldn't need tape

I'd second this. I used to use masking tape all over the place but finally realised it was less work just to take a bit of care over cutting in. Even with masking tape I'd often find paint bled under the tape so I ended up trying to paint to the line anyway.