External paint

Shelly0

Getting ready to paint outside of the house just looking for advice on which paint is the best value in the long-term , number of coats etc. Out of colour trend, weather sheild or Fleetwood. Builder merchant offering weather sheild tinted 11 litre bucket for 55 euros. Is this good value?

omeara1113

Always used dulux wrathful shield but have now started using courtrend lovely paint to use

chicorytip

I would regard Sandtex as superior to Dulux for exterior masonry coverage.

Lex Luthor

Have used dulux before and went with fleet wood last year
Great paint and great colour range

volono

Have used all 3. If you don't mind spending the extra money go for colortrend, it's fantastic paint both exterior and interior but expensive. I'd rate sandtex next ,extremely good coverage I've found and then the weathershield imo. In all honesty the 3 of them are good, I've never got on well with fleetwood paint, have avoided it for years tbh

antiskeptic

Sandtex found it good. And from an unexpected quarter, farrow and ball exterior went up on my garden walls in 2013 and is in perfect condition. Of your that way inclined

NIMAN

You'd need to remortgage the house to get the whole thing painted in F&B - its good but bloody expensive.

abnormalnorman

Hi All,

Did you put an undercoat on the house, if never before painted?

dok_golf

You put on a primer coat. Water down the paint by 30% - 40%. Use this first then apply 2 coats on top as per normal