Alternative to Gloss paint due to yellowing?

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Hey peeps,

I'm just about to start on the downstairs toilet and hall, stairs and landing and can't be bothered going the Gloss route any more, due to how quickly it now yellows these days :(

What alternative paints/brands would you recommend for painting onto wood? Something that doesn't yellow would be what I'm after of course. I'm thinking a water based paint would be ideal, but which one? Brush marks an issue using a water based paint now?

:)

Cheers
 
Can highly recommend:-

Dulux trade quick dry satinwood water based

Over the past 2yrs ive been painting my house after having all new woodwork in various rooms. No yellowing, no brush marks, and its hard wearing. Its not cheap but it does come on offer in the Dulux trade centres now and then, I brought another 2 tins the other week and saved 25% when it was on offer.
 
Never had any issues with Dulux Satinwood. Our whole house is decorated in it, skirting, doors, windows sills, banisters. No yellowing (8 years), really very durable and brush marks settle out during drying in my experience, providing you don't over work it.
 
Another vote for satinwood from me. The majority of our woodwork & doors are painted in Crown's 'Milk White'.

Water based so nowhere near as smelly as gloss. It goes on a treat & leaves no brushmarks.
 
Apparently water based but its quicker drying and harder to get the mirror like finish. However I like the gloss effect from an oil based and its easier to apply.
 
Yeah it's why I now refuse to use Gloss/oil based paints, they just yellow so quick making them useless both in product and the job at hand. I might look into that Satinwood waterbase from Dulux trade, would rather avoid Dulux as a brand though, they just seem to be the go to brand now... hmm
 
I normally like doing the painting myself, but having had a lot of work done in my house recently my mrs was insistent on getting a painter her friend used in to do it. Would have taken me a few weekends to get it done but he has done everything in 2 days.

Anyway, he would use whatever materials we wanted but suggested using the oil based dulux trade satinwood. While I've had good results with the water based stuff, he says it's not at all durable and will simply scratch off if it gets knocked. We went with his recommendation as he said it's pretty much all he uses for woodwork.
 
If it's like the oil paint artists paints - the new white pigments and oil seem to cause yellowing quickly (typically titanium or zinc based IIRC). Older oil paints contain lead and last tens or hundreds of years without yellowing. Some artists have reverted to grinding their own pigments (large health risks) to get the colours that you cannot get anymore (lead white, cadmium, cobalt etc).
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Dulux trade quick dry satinwood water based
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I used to recommend this until I found Farrow and Ball Estate eggshell 'All White' - very durable and my satinwood had yellowed within the year. Prime with Zinnizer Bullseye 123 if required. Eggshell does need a good two coats but unless you were going over satinwood (after a sand) it would need two coats as well. Only criticism of the eggshell is that as it's a thinner paint a good brush is essential to ensure brush strokes are minimal (I didn't find any benefit using small foam roller vs. brush).

Really don't rate Dulux stuff any more. Johnstones do a good equivalent as well but the name escapes me at the moment.
 
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Best recent discovery I found is to use a good quality caulk to prevent cracks along skirting joins and where it meets the wall. Same for windowsills. In fact I also use it along joins along ceiling and corners where stud wall has been used as the caulk has that slight give to it so the paint doesn't get those cracks along it.

I have decorated three of the bedrooms in my house recently, two with caulk and one without and it is very noticeable the difference, even within only a couple of months.
 
The water stuff is a PITA and can't be removed even by solvent dipping, acrylic based gloss won't yellow - go to a paint specialist, Dulux and Crown cocked up on formulations years back when complying with EU rulings on chemical content and i've never trusted them since. The stuff I get from a local paint producer is cheaper, covers better and no issues with yellowing.
 
100% eggshell if you don't mind a non glossy finish

we have one room in our house painted gloss and its a horrible yellow colour after 1 year

eggshell still as white as the day we painted it over a year ago. easy to paint as well not like gloss where its stiff and gloopy.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Can highly recommend:-

Dulux trade quick dry satinwood water based

Over the past 2yrs ive been painting my house after having all new woodwork in various rooms. No yellowing, no brush marks, and its hard wearing. Its not cheap but it does come on offer in the Dulux trade centres now and then, I brought another 2 tins the other week and saved 25% when it was on offer.
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Make sure you get the trade satinwood though. I painted the house with normal dulux satinwood last year and it was awful, still sticky months after painting and peeling. I complained to dulux and got 2 x 5L vouchers so used it to get the trade stuff and it's miles better.
 
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