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Leyland Super Leytex for me. Really good coverage. Can get away with one coat on bare plaster sometimes.
Oh, while I'm here, fuck Farrow & Ball. Apart from the general twattiness and price, I bought two cans of the same paint there the other week and they were noticeably different colours after stirring. Made me stand around in the shop waiting for samples to dry to compare and said that they "aim to get colour matches within 1%" which is utterly meaningless. Also, their emulsion paint is more like vinyl or acrylic, and didn't adhere properly to my base coat of Leyland emulsion. I used some weak masking tape on one area, and when I carefully removed it, it peeled off a big plastic-like strip of F&B paint. Just get it colour matched in Dulux super-matte and save yourself the grief.
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Don't ever promise the person who chooses a farrow and ball colour that you can get it mixed in another base though. You might get lucky and get it matched, more than likely it will be disappointing. I insist on my clients providing the paint if they want farrow and ball, that way they get to deal with the problems.
Little green are good and have a good range but as mentioned above, dulux supermatt or leyland vinyl Matt are good enough. There are a lot of ceiling specific paints emerging that contain a lot more solids and resist roller streaks which is a problem especially on big basement ceilings with light from patio doors.
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We did this, only used Johnson's - which I actually prefer working with to the also-wildly-expensive Little Greene paint which adorns much of our former flat.
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Wicked. This was exactly what I was after, thank you. Leyland Super Leytex it is.
Airhead
Timmy2wheels
ReekBlefs
Easy kids. Sorry for the bait question, but any recommendations on white paint for walls and ceilings?
Am painting a whole two bed flat so the fewer coats I need to do the better, esp with the (historic) water damage I need to paint over. Is there any diff between the really expensive stuff and the bogstandard paint?