100% OT - Paint prices in UK please

As it is Sunday, and every Sunday half the UK population go to the local DIY store, while you are there could you please, very kindly, have a look at the largest size available for Dulux paint (Satin, Matt - whatever, that is not important but just not gloss).

I need to know the size (in litres) of the tub and the price for one of them.

We are now painting our new house here, with a top local brand and it seems bloody expensive, just would like to know how it compares

 

I should add, although we can paint our houses any colour we want (no local council to prevent us doing that), it will not be Green & Yellow I am sorry to say. The good lady would not let me have that colour scheme

 

You need to put your foot down Thai!

First thing I told the missus when we bought our house was that disgusting blue garage door was getting replaced by a coat of canary yella. It makes me smile every time I get home now looking at my handy work. On the inside where there are cross panels I have coloured it yella and green. Only metallic green they had was racing green so it looks like Lotus colours which is still very pleasing on the eye though.

 

Perhaps when the time comes to re-decorate I can persuade her (with money or a couple of gold rings of course)

 

The going rate is £20 for 2.5L or £35 for 5L of emulsion

 

ok, makes our prices seem pretty good then - 18 litre for £45.00
and there I was thinking this stuff cost way too much here

 

My next question is - why are so many people still awake and active on here? I logged on at 1am UK time you lot are still going strong?

 

Dulux though expensive is of a high quality and has better coverage than any cheaper brands

 

And it comes with a dog! Much easier than a brush ? Though a little cruel maybe !

 

Ah well yes but I cannot find Dulux over here so have to go with the best local brand

 

I think it depends what you are covering.I recently redecorated a holiday cottage that came with the house I bought last Xmas and the existing colour was cream,so it was just a freshen upjob.I used Homebase Classic Cream at £19.95 for 5ltrs BOGOF.Still not significantly cheaper than Thai Dulux though.Looks like a good deal,although the luggage excess on the flight would add a bit on.

 

Is that your way of inviting yourself for a holiday

I'll stick to what we are using, looks kind of similar to the Homebase stuff if I am being honest. Basically it's good enough to do the job and still considerably cheaper than old blighty

 

Very kind of you to offer old boy! It's 16c here on the coast today,my kind of temperature really.so I hope you have good air-con.

 

Paint it Red & White, English colours and inside Green & Yellow, Norwich colours. Sorted.

 

Granite house and white plastic doors and window frames. But inside, every room, including the ceilings, apart from the little room, is B&Q Ivory which is dirt cheap and when the grandchildren put their chocolate covered hands all over the walls, I wash it and emulsion it again. Call me lazy but I don't have time to bugger about with wallpaper, different colours and bloody white ceilings.
Why are ceilings always white when nobody ever looks at them? And why does everyone want a big lounge and then put all the furniture around the walls and leave a big hole in the middle?
No yellow and green apart from the vacuum cleaner of all things, but the house sign, but not the name, is Carrow Road and I am typing this wearing my NCFC training bottoms which I bought from the club and drinking coffee from my NCFC mug.