Anyone had sandtex mixed to desired colour by hardware store?

Daydream believer said:
Sorry if I did not explain properly
The first coat is required to provide adhesion for the birdsand ( A bit like 100's & 1000's on your ice cream ) the following coat is to hide the sand colour of the sand plus give additional adhesion. Also the second coat removes some of the " harshness" of the sand which can be quite abrasive if not toned down with the next layer of paint
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some use sugar to sprinkle it then melts away leaving craters in the paint
 
Tranona said:
You don't need to use deck paint to change the colour. Oxford Blue is a Toplac colour. Suggest however you change to the Interdeck grey. less in your face...
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Ah, do you mean mix Toplac Oxford blue with Interdeck grey? That sounds doable.

alahol2 said:
My B&Q will colour match using Valspar masonry paint. You can either take a swatch in or they will give you a set of colour patches that are around your type of blue. You take the patches and match to the one you want. I had 2.5Ltrs made up to a grey that matches my existing deck colour...
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And how is the colour match please? I would dearly love to avoid having to paint both the decks and the coachroof - there's masses of fiddly masking to be done if so. If I could get away with a good match and just have to do the deck that would be great.
 
fredrussell said:
And how is the colour match please? I would dearly love to avoid having to paint both the decks and the coachroof - there's masses of fiddly masking to be done if so. If I could get away with a good match and just have to do the deck that would be great.
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The match is as near as damn it exact. I can paint a patch in isolation and, within a couple of days, you wouldn't know it had been painted at a different time. Similarly I have patched a couple of very small chips and they are near invisible.
 
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