its only taken me 39 years to realise...

[ThatVikRinA22]

that when ever i have done any painting (satinwood or gloss) i have always searched high and low for a non plastic container to soak the brush in. (you know....that coffee jar that sits on the window sill in the kitchen for 5 months until you end up throwing the congealed mass out, brush and all...)

has to be a non plastic container doesnt it. of course it does.....

penny dropped tonight as i was washing the satinwood off my hands with white spirit....in a plastic bottle.

DOH.

I don't understand. Could you explain please.

I think Vicar is saying that she had some misplaced belief that white spirit HAD to be sued in a glass bottle, so as not to erode plastic or something?

Snigger - it's funny how you get these ideas so ingrained in your mind that you just can't see the reality of it!

i feel quite a pillock! all these years of tipping the dreggs out of coffee jars...i have no idea what i thought would happen if i dared to use something plastic...

someone made an even more sensible suggestion to use the cheapest of cheap brushes then chuck them....
i hate cleaning brushes.

well, cheap brushes can be annoying if they shed a lot of bristles while you work.

LOL @ plastic container thing.

I bought a dozen cheap 1 inch brushes and throw them out now - I find if you push the bristles back and forth a bit before you start painting, the loose ones usually fall out at once, instead of while you're painting.

I stored White spirit in a plastic milk carton, it started to eat through the plastic. Perhaps itches to be a certain type?

That's why I only ever use water based paints - no need for white spirit in the first place!

Ahh, I see. Thank you.

Thanks for enlightening me. I always thought it had to be glass (it's inherited from my Dad, I don't do enough of it myself). Of course, the bottle is plastic...but there are so many different TYPES of plastic, you'd better be using the same sort .

I would also recommend using the water-based satinwood or gloss. Smells so much better and dries much faster. You can just rinse the brushes out under the tap too.

can you get water based satinwood???? ive never seen it. i would much prefer it - i hate the smell and hate cleaning the brushes (and me!) in white spirit even more.

where do you get water based satinwood? im v v interested! im going through the whole house. done my bedroom DS bedroom and hall/stairs/landing so far but many rooms still to go!

We got Focus own-brand but you can get Dulux and Crown I think from most DIY places. Primer too.

our Focus is closing and B&Q have bought it, but i searched and searched, they had very little in the way of satinwood let alone water based one....but i shall keep looking. thanks - i had no idea you could get it it! well...you learn something new everyday! cheers.

I heard Focus had gone into administration (ours is/was totally shit, I used to phone dh if I couldn't locate an item rather than try and locate an elusive member of staff!) I hope B&Q buy it or we will be about 10 miles from the nearest DIY store

If you want to spend a bit more, all of Farrow and Ball's woodwork paints (Estate Eggshell/Dead Flat/Full Gloss) are water based.

I dishwash my jars from pasta sauce - anything really and save them for paintbrush jobs. The brush cleaner stuff by dulux I think it is, is very good for cleaning glossy brushes

Has to be the right type of plastic, last week hubby melded a plastic cup to the utility room sink cleaning brushes....mmmmm blue gunky mess , funny he didn't seem to be too keen to clean it up

ah, so maybe im not imagining the glass thing after all! DH did try to remind me that i have melted something cleaning brushes many moons ago but i dont remember doing it - but maybe thats where the idea that i had to have a glass receptacle came from.....

just got a farrow and ball colour chart. love it. hate the price. love the colours.