Paint

[andromeda]

Question please for the home DIYers.
Given how expensive paint is currently has anyone any rule of thumb on accessing paint quality of tins both sealed and unsealed that I haved left outside .

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Depends on type, water-based if overwintered, I'd bin them, oil-based might be useful, don't mess with the skin, just pierce it and decant, thinners based, not sure.

 

[wildebus]

Question please for the home DIYers.
Given how expensive paint is currently has anyone any rule of thumb on accessing paint quality of tins both sealed and unsealed that I haved left outside .

some good advice I have seen and try to remember to do .... store upside down.

probably doesn't answer the question, but as a general rule of thumb ...

 

[St3v3]

Water based stuff stinks when it's gone off.

 

[Campervanannie]

some good advice I have seen and try to remember to do .... store upside down.

probably doesn't answer the question, but as a general rule of thumb ...

As my father in law was a painter and decorator he always told us to store opened paint upside down so when the skin formed it would be at the bottom of the liquid paint so no piercing or trying to remove the skin.

 

[maingate]

There is not a lot of oil based paint around these days (in the shops at least). Luckily small tins are still available and that was all I needed.

 

[Heppy]

In the RAF it was a weekly task to turn all opened tins over in the paint locker.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

In the RAF it was a weekly task to turn all opened tins over in the paint locker.

Be better if they had lids on though.

 

[El radge]

Be better if they had lids on though.

What do you expect ? It was the RAF

 

[Heppy]

 

[Barge1914]

Just used some 13 year old gloss paint and undercoat left over from our barge. It needed a good stirring to whisk the free oil back into it, but it’s still good.