Decorating advice

I can second that. I did my stairs with johnstones and it's been brilliant. Excellent coverage and can even wipe it when the kids get grease or food on it.
Did the living room with dulux and that's been chipping in places and if you try and wipe it, then it comes away.
Already said to the other half, when the time comes the kids go back to school or can have a day at the grandparents its getting done again with Johnstones.

 

All Paint manufacturers make and market different coloured paint, but whatever fancy
names they use, any paint they sell has to comply with the colours listed under British
Standard 4800.

I once saw a survey on the best paint on the market. At that time Blundell Permoglaze
(Grimsby) was the winner. Some years later, it was acquired by Akzo Nobel, who in turn
were bought out by Dulux Paints. The latter has been owned by ICI and DuPont since 1931
and to this day has maintained its place as a market leader in terms of quality.

Crown Paints are now owned by a Dutch Company Hempel. Leyland Paint and Johnstones
Paints are owned by the same parent group and are made to the BSI standard in an attempt
to suit a range of users budgets.

When I was in charge of Procurement at Donny Council at the Works Department, I once
accompanied an Auditor on a visit to one of our outlying depots. We were discussing which
was the best quality paint on the market. I explained that I didn't know and that the paint used
by the Council were all specified by our Architects and Quantity Surveyors.

He stopped a lad in a white overall who was loading some steps, brushes and cans of paint into
a Council owned van. My heart missed a beat when in answer to the Auditors question " what
paint do you use at home", our operative replied ( without smiling), " whatever we've got in stock."

Came as no surprise when he asked for the key to the Paint store and spent a couple of days in
there trying to reconcile what had been bought, booked out and what still remained on our shelves.