Jontex High Build Masonry Paint Experience?

Have a look through this thread - may be of use

http://community.screwfix.com/threads/high-build-masonry-paint.90113/

 

No problem, I have applied plenty of textured wall paint over the years but never that product. I had a hunt around the internet for problems and issues with the product and couldn't find anything. Only a few minor gripes about getting a smooth finish - but it is textured paint ...

I think maybe you had some misinformation from the guy in the paint shop - but then if he sells / stocks it why would he tell people it was difficult to use ? Bizarre

 

My wife whom is 4ft 11 has the same problem with condescending staff at builders merchants and hardware stores. Soon puts them right though - small is size but makes up in vocal volume.

Having done your homework and with all your experience you seem more than capable of doing the work and getting a good finish as well. Hope it goes well

 

That is something that I find so infuriating in building,decorator,plumbing & other merchants, & it really pi***s me off.
When I started out, you use to see it, & 35 years later it is still rife, still can't understand why merchants are considered a male domain,some females are very capable,knew a female plaster & she was very good at her trade.

Slightly off topic, I get the same treatment when I venture into craft,knitting,haberdashery shops for me mum or sister, they treat you like you have the plague, but their attiude totally changes when they find I'm rather capable & knowledgeable with sewing & various crafts, & can easily hold my own.

 

No problem, please come back and keep in touch on the forum.

PS When you have finishedt take the empty paint cans you bought elsewhere to the paint shop and do the "you wouldn't serve me, huge mistake" scene from Pretty Woman

 

Hi Sos.

Which brands have you used, and what textures did you aim for?

I'm looking at a fine-ish texture - any hints?

Ta

 

Used the usual Sandtex and Weathershield to cover pebble dash and rough cast finishes. Down here, I prefer to use the Bedec products on smoother render because of the weather coming off the sea and we have a lot of ground movement so it is prone to cracking. The Bedec products cope well with movements and leaves about a good a surface as you can get with render.

I have sandstone and redbrick as part of my front wall and when I sanded them down and applied the Bedec paint. After a few coats it feels like gloss paint.

I used to use Johnstones Weathershield but found it very watery and just went everywhere, which was no fun on a ladder in a sea breeze - everything got covered as well as the walls

The Sandtex build up paints are like covering a wall with runny porridge The good thing is they can distract your eyes from some horrible block work. The finish is like when someone drags a brush over wet cement.

What is it your going to cover ?

 

Used the Sandtex High Build on a job last year, I put it on with a caulking tool and the used a Sandtex roller to apply the finish pattern which was a cross between tree bark and Tyrolean. Had to work fast though as it dries quite quickly.

 

Not bad stuff, used it on the inside of a few garages to smarten the up, not the best finish in the world but hides a multitude of sins

 

Cheers, gents.

It's for the house walls - these were smooth-rendered decades ago, and the surface now shows the different levels of different paint layers from over the years. I also don't like it toooo smooth/flat which is what it's like at the mo', so the differing paint layer levels do show up a bit.

Our recent garage was rendered and finished off with a sponge so has that light 'gritty' surface. So I'm ideally looking for summat a wee bit more textured than that - enough to disguise the paint layers a bit but not to be too obviously textured.

How much comes down to the high-build paint used and how much to the roller used to apply it?

Cheers.

 

The roller was a Sandtex product quite dense hard foam which had holes all over it, did a good job too.

 

There is the Sandex fine textured which is too smooth or too lumpy - sounds a bit like Goldilocks

 

You tube has a video using the roller on High Build.

 

At least the answer won't be Zinsser this time