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Concrete outside walls - paint?
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Cactus_Flowers
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Hi all
I have various concrete walls outside - all concrete blocks and rendered with plain concrete, they look in good condition. I'd like to paint them so they're not quite so oppressively grey, but I'm having a hard time finding suitable paint - searches bring me driveway paint or extremely expensive outdoor-suitable but 'all materials' paint. I can't imagine that bog-standard paint for concrete that's suitable for outdoors (but doesn't need to be hardy enough to be walked on) doesn't exist - could anyone point me in the right direction? And also, if possible, give some guidance on if the walls need to be prepared with a primer or something first?
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I guess what you call concrete is in fact mortar used for rendering. So you need a paint for rendered walls - masonry paint.
However, if same walls are very wet, e.g. retaining walls, no paint will last long, any will flake very soon.0 -
I think you're looking for the wrong thing, masonry paint is needed, we usually use Sandtex for our rendered walls (though other brands exist of course).Know what you don't0
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Thank you so much - I was 100% using the wrong term, masonry paint is definitely what I was looking forgrumpy_codger said:
However, if same walls are very wet, e.g. retaining walls, no paint will last long, any will flake very soon.0 -
Cactus_Flowers said:Thank you so much - I was 100% using the wrong term, masonry paint is definitely what I was looking forgrumpy_codger said:
However, if same walls are very wet, e.g. retaining walls, no paint will last long, any will flake very soon.
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