Quote: billwill @ 22nd August 2015, 1:26 AM BSTBillwill just screwed up his redecoration schedule by painting door frames with the wrong paint.
This stuff takes 3 days to dry, instead of the 3-hours-to-dry paint that he intended to use...
Grrrr.
OK I have got to ask (I am in the paint business), what paint are you using that takes 3 days to dry?
Pete Docherty brand paint can take upto a week to dry out.
Quote: playfull @ 23rd August 2015, 4:57 PM BSTOK I have got to ask (I am in the paint business), what paint are you using that takes 3 days to dry?
It's called Macpherson Trade Paint, Gloss, Brilliant White.
I can't now read what they thought it would dry in as the instructions have got covered by some of the paint.
Quote: billwill @ 23rd August 2015, 10:31 PM BSTIt's called Macpherson Trade Paint, Gloss, Brilliant White.
I can't now read what they thought it would dry in as the instructions have got covered by some of the paint.
And it's dried?
Quote: billwill @ 23rd August 2015, 10:31 PM BSTIt's called Macpherson Trade Paint, Gloss, Brilliant White.
I can't now read what they thought it would dry in as the instructions have got covered by some of the paint.
Bill do you live underwater? That should be touch dry in a couple of hours and fully dried in 4 to 6.
Quote: playfull @ 23rd August 2015, 11:13 PM BSTBill do you live underwater? That should be touch dry in a couple of hours and fully dried in 4 to 6.
Shrug... I don't belive it. "Should" may be the relevant word.
Maybe this was a faulty tin if they have pooor quality control. I've used it to paint windowsills and radiators and they were still sticky a day later and only hard enough to be considered dry after about 3 days. This stuff is not water based it need white spirit to clean the brushes.
The coating that I put on my doorposts on Friday is still soft enough to damage easily.
Even this says wait 16 hours before re-coating: http://www.macphersonpaints.co.uk/pages/products.aspx?productref=12
See also http://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/macphersons-gloss.301424/ Macphersons and Crown paints are related. The following link complains of long drying time: http://www.bib-n-braces.com/viewtopic.php?t=1725
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On the other hand the DULUX similar paint that I bought, which is water based, definitiely dries in 3 to 4 hours.
Quote: Chappers @ 23rd August 2015, 11:07 PM BSTAnd it's dried?
The paint covering the instructions was from several weeks ago, so yes it has dried.
As some of you will know I've done the odd bit of graphic design over the years. Last week my daughter Hannah got her GCSE in Art, and at a higher grade than me, then proceeded to rub my nose in it by drawing this picture of 'Carry On' film legend, Sid James.
Today she's doing some work experience as a window dresser and display assistant at John Lewis. #veryproud
Not 'arf!
Feel quite Hancockian at the moment as it seems I am a medical mystery.
Just come back from seeing the heart specialist and he can't find anything wrong with me to explain this severe tiredness. On the one hand he gives me a clean bill of health for my heart, but that doesn't help me in the short term, so back to square one. Mixed blessings. 
Apparently we all suffer in one way or another with extra heartbeats (Ectopics) that can be anything from 5 to 10 extra, and mine is approx. 9.
So, he says with puzzled expression he is going to speak to a senior consultant this evening and might get me to have an MIR scan on the vessels surrounding the heart.
The plot thickens (at least it's not the clot thickens.)
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 25th August 2015, 4:17 PM BSTFeel quite Hancockian at the moment as it seems I am a medical mystery.
Just come back from seeing the heart specialist and he can't find anything wrong with me to explain this severe tiredness. On the one hand he gives me a clean bill of health for my heart, but that doesn't help me in the short term, so back to square one. Mixed blessings.
Apparently we all suffer in one way or another with extra heartbeats (Ectopics) that can be anything from 5 to 10 extra, and mine is approx. 9.
So, he says with puzzled expression he is going to speak to a senior consultant this evening and might get me to have an MIR scan on the vessels surrounding the heart.
The plot thickens (at least it's not the clot thickens.)
Still keeping my fingers crossed.
Thank you GB 
Quote: Tuumble @ 24th August 2015, 1:24 PM BSTAs some of you will know I've done the odd bit of graphic design over the years. Last week my daughter Hannah got her GCSE in Art, and at a higher grade than me, then proceeded to rub my nose in it by drawing this picture of 'Carry On' film legend, Sid James.
Today she's doing some work experience as a window dresser and display assistant at John Lewis. #veryproud
No way that I can do anything like this because I am an Aphantasian..
see topic: https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/32207#P1131837
Only 8.30 and thinking of bed already. Hope I'm not getting the office flu that's been going around. Be just my luck to get at the end of winter and on a weekend.
Well don't come on here spreading your germs. >_<