Metal paint @ Aldi

[Rotary-Motion]

Not impressed with the black, very thin 

and hmmm not good.....

[julianf]

I bought 2-off silver to do the trailer with, and 1-off black to do the black iron pipe on our rayburn with.

Have not opened them yet.

[Tony]

Not impressed with the black, very thin 

That's by design - you've only done one coat I'm guessing, and it will have set matt.  Do a second coat and it'll sit thicker and dry to a gloss.

[K.H]

Done two, will need a third

[greasemonkey]

I can get 1.5 litres of high quality metal paint for £8. One coat is plenty, just get the rust off. Clean metal or paint underneath and there is no problem. IMHO, the Aldi stuff isn't worth the money.

[julianf]

I can get 1.5 litres of high quality metal paint for £8.

Where?

[greasemonkey]

I can get 1.5 litres of high quality metal paint for £8.

Where?

Local privately run hardware shop.

[Glycer-rides]

Local privately run hardware shop.

A local shop! You'd better get a couple of Tubbs.

[greasemonkey]

Local privately run hardware shop.

A local shop! You'd better get a couple of Tubbs.

Local shop for local people. Anyway, I made a boo boo. I got given a 1.5 litre. The stuff I bought from the shop for £8 is 750ml. Still better than the Aldi stuff though, and way cheaper than hammerite.

[Tony]

Regardless, I swear by the Aldi stuff, got metal things in the garden that aren't rusting to prove it

[julesandtash]

Well I have two tins of the green Aldi stuff and am picking up a steel central heating oil tank next week to use it on.

A pensioner friend of my parents had a small leak appear in his steel tank. He then ended up paying over £2000 to have somebody replaced it with a plastic one. They must have seen him coming as the support structure they have built is rubbish, the tank isn't even positioned squarely (ie it just looks wrong when seen along with the hard landscaping features which are square) and the plumbing layout is rubbish too.

Anyway, they then wanted another couple of hundred pounds to get the tank and it's couple of hundred litres of remaining kero out of the garden (to which there is no vehicle access).

I, of course, have volunteered to relieve him of the tank and kero for free. The kero will go well with the palm bio in my heating and I need to cut down his tank to the correct size for a job I have in mind.