Gloss paint not drying!

[purpleflower123]

Last night I glossed the skirting boards in the toilet and bathroom, I also glossed a mirror frame and a shelf. This morning, nearly 12 hours after I did it, the paint is not even close to being touch dry.

DS got it on his school trousers when he went to the toilet this morning and DD has just got it on her coat after falling over in the hallway into the bathroom. It's all up her sleeve and is ruined :(

Can we return the tin (£20) even though we have used it? Also, how can I go about getting it to dry before anything else gets ruined, it's just as wet as if I had just painted it :(

It's probably not drying because of the temperature. If you don't have your heating on, it will take longer to dry, so unfortunately I don't think you can return the paint.

Turn on the heating, or get the windows open to get a wind blowing through to dry it are the only things I can think of.

Thank you, the heatings been on all night, it's not cold in here at all. I don't really want to open the window much more as I hate the cold :)

I agree with Poledra.

Gloss paint takes an age to dry, usually about 24 to touch dry.

I just don't get it, we've never had this problem before. Even in colder weather than this gloss has gone off. This is the first time we have used the wickes own brand one. It's not even gone sticky, you can't actually see where its been touched as it's still so runny its just blended in!

the tin said 4-6 and any others I've used, that's been about right.

all paint manufacturers have tech departments. ring them and talk to them

well if you have had the heating on its very weird that it's not started to go off at all. deffo ring them up.

By the way, you can use white spirit on clothes to get the paint off. Just dab it on with a cloth (don't rub too much). Should not affect the colour as it does not bleach. Had to do this with DD's friend's school skirt (wool) when she leaned against a freshly painted door in our house 30 seconds after entering the house!

White spirit on the coat? Or I just got lots of paint out of our car carpet using paintbrush restorer (does smell). Don't know why it isn't drying - I'd expect it to dry overnight.

Yes you can use it on the coat - I got the tip from our decorator, I thought myself that white spirit would be too harsh but it really worked and did not damage the fabric.

Sorry can't really comment on why the paint is not drying - though gloss paint does take a long time to dry so maybe this brand is going to take 24 hours?

It's finally starting to get touch dry now

The tin says 4-6 hours to be touch dry and 16-24 to be recoatable, it's taken nearly 15 hours to just be touch dry! I'm not impressed at all and have 5litres and lots of glossing to get through :(

I'll try the white spirit on the coat and trousers tonight, thank you for that :)

I use a water based eggshell, it was touch dry in about 2 hours.

I hate the smell of gloss paint and it lingers for days so I used eggshell, less shiny and much easier on the nose.

Just a thought.

Same here, I hate everything about gloss paint. The smell, the length of time it takes to dry, the hassle of cleaning the brushes... Instead I use a satin wood that has far less VOCs and everything can be cleaned with soap and water.

We used a really quick drying water based gloss when we moved in about 6 months ago and we need to do it all again! Big chunks have peeled away even though we sanded it all down first. We also both love the shine.

I'm stuck with it now anyway, we bought a huge tub as we still needed to do all the doors as they are just primered and go over everthing else again!

We just don't seem to be doing a very good job changing the woodwork from dirty orange to white :(

Water-based gloss is very user-friendly, but not as good or tough as the solvent-based stuff.

There's always a catch!!