Dh threatening to do some painting: F&B

[MarshaBrady]

I'm not sure if he is even very good at this sort of thing. Need tips.

So
Skirting? Estate Eggshell? pointing?

Is it hard to get a good finish with F&B?

He is moody, I am reluctant (want a prof job).

So experts, help required please...

Get someone in. It could save your marriage stress. I have never ever painted anything in my life (apart from actual paintings) so I am biased.

ha me too.
Dh has to be precise for work, but that is using a computer. He thinks he can translate general precision to painting.

I agree with you. Marital stress!

Am renovating a house, needs painting throughout. Due to money spent on exterior/plumbing/electrics (I could go on) we have to paint ourselves, have done about half so far. Have painted DD's room in Farrow and Ball, and despite hearing horror stories about how crap it is, it's gone on a treat - much better than the Wickes shite we've used in other parts of the building. Oh, and my builder says: "If you can piss, you can paint". He claims this is stock wisdom throughout the building trade. I would add as a proviso your DH will need to have basic common sense (does he?) - so he understands things such as, don't do from floor to ceiling, but leave the edges to do carefully with a brush, etc. Depends on your budget - if you have plenty of money, get someone in, I guess. Painting is boring, but it sure ain't astrophysics.

Painting is sooo easy and F&B paint is brilliant - loads better than Dulux/Crown. End of!

Don't let your DP do it all with a brush. We had paint on top of textured paper and he more or less obliterated the texture and you can see brush strokes in it. Would he be told? Did he listen to my dad who used to be a painter and decorator?

I took the dc for a long walk (dh always gets diy-ish when hemmed in) and got back and said at the same time dearest I think we should get someone in to paint the house. Which is lucky really!

So eggshell for skirting and doors is that right?

Yeap - eggshell for skirting and doors.

I love F&B - and found it much better than cheaper paints.

Glad you're getting someone in though - so much quicker . I don't mind painting but hate hate all the prep.

Me too. We just looked around and realised what a huge job it really was. It's all F&B now but needs redoing.

A couple of rooms are just white so a blank canvas. Any favourite colour recommendations?

F&B is brilliant but I would say get the modern emlusion for walls as it's wipeable/washable and estate emulsion isn't and I had to re-do our walls after a couple of years with the estate emlusion. I found it easy to apply, you do need two coats but then you have a really nice finish. Oh and I never managed to get as much sqm as it said you could on the tin!

My favourites colour wise are teresa's green (a sort of duck egg blue) and the paler version of it which is pale powder. Also love green ground which I have in my kicthen. On the F&B website it tells you which neutrals go with which colours which helps with choosing paint for the woodwork.

Oh and what I got to save on tester pots was one of these not cheap but if you're got several rooms to do it's worth it as the colours are accurate representations of the paint and you can take out the cards and stick them on the wall and then when you think you're sure get a tester just for the that colour. Also means you can take the sample card around shops to choose curtain fabric/furnishings etc.

sorry that's a bit long - bit of an F&B fan

That's great Cassell f&b fans very welcome!

We have the pale powder one in a bathroom. I don't know Theresa's green (amazed!).

What is your fave around the clunch-type group?

Oh I like clunch, hadn't come across that one before - though how about tallow which is very similar but slightly warmer? The eggshell tallow is nice, we have it on our mantlepiece in the living room.

we have pale powder in our main bathroom, love it there it's a very restful colour

yes Tallow very nice, warmer.... interesting, really creamy. Will add to sample pots. (we were going to get house white but I prefer Tallow now)

What colour is your kitchen cassell?

It's green ground, with cream units & wooden worktops. I think it's a nice fresh colour and works well for us as the kitchen has double doors out to the garden so the green follows through to the outside iykwim

F&B estate is the business. Easy to apply but terribly delicate so avoid high traffic areas.[

Wouldn't recommend estate emulsion for anything other than adult bedrooms or 'occasional' rooms, as it marks really easily, and absorbs greasy fingerprints and cannot be wiped. Modern emulsion on the other hand is fab, as it is very wipeable but still looks much less plastic and shiny than other mass produced emulsions. The F&B eggshells and glosses are a bit harder to work with than Dulux etc, but the finish is so much better it's def. worth the trouble, and despite what some people say I find it much more durable.

F&B is a bit harder to apply than other paints - I think the high pigment in it makes it less slappable-on IYSWIM. The brush is a bit slidier with cheaper paints but the colour results are denseer (and better) with F&B. Worth the effort!

I just painted our front door in F+B and it went on fine. It was a bit thinner than other gloss I've used but after 2 coats the colour is great. Also 'Full Gloss' would in anyone else's book be called eggshell I reckon...