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Reading many threads on choice of paint. Going round in circles I am afraid! silly question but can anyone tell me why I should not use Dulux Weathershield Gloss? I used this for ten years on my front door in North Yorkshire and it was as good as the day it was painted.
 
i'm a tight wad, and regularly use leyland gloss... i love it, great finish and cheap.

i buy white then add tints to get the shade i want. iv'e used it on wood and GRP, with good results. it's all down to preparation though.

on hulls i generally use B&Q gloss, but the finish isn't as important to me as are the bits you can see.

i painted the topsides of a grp dayboat that i had rescued... when the buyer looked at it they commented on the gel coat condition!... it did look shiney, but as i said, that's all in the prep.

steve.
 
Use it. I did, its been on for 2 years now, and looks almost as good as the day it was painted.

If i actually cleaned it, it would probably be as good as the day I painted it. I also used it on a small GRP cruiser i had some years ago with brilliant results.

Blakes etc. do last a bit longer, and a brighter white, but there not worth the difference in price IMO.
 
Weathersheild is a 3 part application if you want to do it properly, however with any good undercoat it will give you excelent protection. It's downside is that, although dry within 24hrs it will take it about a week to fully harden off.

I have used Weathersheild on my wood boat and I will not use anything else! My boat was painted over 3 years ago and still only needs cleaning.

Tom
 
Me too - been using it on several boats over the last 10 years. Excellent stuff IMHO, and the primers have an anti rot additive. I used their dark blue on one boat, and last time I saw it it was looking as good as the day it did it 5 years before - good gloss still, and no sign of fading. Pity the boat had been negelected and was falling to pieces!

It has a 'ten year guarantee' - would Dulux honour that on a boat? I doubt it, but I do not see marine paint manufacturers with such confidence in their product! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Do you feel there is much to be had by waxing the paint occasionally, or do you find it lasts anyway?
 
I hope you dont mind me answering for Harry..........or should I call him Old!

I have never waxed miine /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif but it wouldnt do any harm, all I have done is wash it down.

This is a wood boat made out of the same material as the front door, it has been painted and I dont see any reason to treat it any differently than the front door!! ie I wouldnt wax the door.

The great advantage with Weathershield is it is flexible so when the wood moves with dampness, heat, cold and general movement in use, the paint dosent crack and allow moisture in to lift the paint.

Try it you wont go back to those expensive hard marine paints, least I havent found anybody who would /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Tom

PS. I always get the Old Fart that tells me I should be using Blah Blah Blah! when they see me with the paint pot out and it wont stick to a boat. Of course it wont we all know that dont we!!
 
Theres nothing I hate more than people comming up to you telling you how you should maintain your boat.

Examples like 'that paint won't stick', 'what you want for that is....' etc.

My favorites was everyone that said 'you dont want a wooden boat, their lots of maintenance etc etc.' Ive done alot less on this one than my old 20ft grp tub!
 
Absolutely!

I had a gem three weeks ago; my boat, being a gaff cutter with an offset prop, does not go astern happily. As we were extricating ourselves from a mud berth, I was offered a barrage of useless advice from a chap on an MFV in the next berth.

I managed not to tell him that I had kept the boat in precisely the spot where his boat now is, for 12 years!
 
Re: Absolutely!

Actually, I quite enjoy these 'helpful' buffoons. I normally just smile sweetly and carry on with what I was doing. They are wasting their time, not mine.
 
The Mrs and I just spent the best part of a month removing the old paint to bare wood and then putting that Jotun stuff on.

It will probably get a wax wash once in a while just so I keep up on any flaws and nicks. I dont want to have to do the whole thing again for as long as possible....

My favourite piece of advice received was - how to varnish the hull - which came as we were scraping and sanding in that heat in July. That one actually did make me laugh..... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: Absolutely!

To be fair, Mirelle, I think our silence quiet acceptance of his advice, clearly paying it no heed whatsoever, was far more weighty than any cutting comment might have been. If I recall correctly, both us us nodded and smiled when we had a moment between kicking twelve tons about and clearly didn't listen at all.

And why should we? The only proffered advice I overheard was "Watch out, you'll be on the mud!" which, in the Woodbridge ferry dock is not really breaking news...

/<
 
Usher

True!

The finest moment came when Art shouted "Mind my paint"! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

(Art Butler being the friend whom we had been lying alongside - his boat is a recently acquired Scottish ring netter, still in "fishing boat condition"!) /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I think we did a fine job of turning round with two feet clearance!

And you have just had the benefit of two solid weeks of advice from a mutual friend who is known along the waterfront as "Usher" - not because of Edgar Allen Poe but because of his tendency to say:

"U sher do it this way..." /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Sorry - been away sailing. No I never waxed my paint: never felt a need to, and I suspect it would make it more difficult when it comes to repainting, as you will have to make sure all the wax is off again or the new paint wont stick. A good wash down with detergent is all I ever needed to do.
 
Weathershield Gloss in my experience is great from the adhesion and non flaking aspect but it does seem to loose its gloss quite quickly if facing the sun, I suspect your front door chinita does not face South!.
I would use Epifanes 2 pack polyurethane on Blakes Epoxy Primer.
 
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