PAINT FOR FULL SUN

[RobertArthur]

@ Loup-Garou, as promised more details, Burgundy/Bordeaux red / rouge basque and grey primer for exterior painting.

[Lori]

Love those colors.

[Blaze]

@RobertArthur Where do you get that paint from ?

[RobertArthur]

@ Blaze, from a country behind dikes and dunes where more than half of its population live dangerously. This is especially true for the Schiphol area – an airport that lies 4.5 metres below sea level. To get a permission de construire in zones inondables in France would be very difficult. If there are Dutchies in your neighbourhood, ask them before it is too late and they have to leave their cars in the polders and start rowing to their second homes in France.

I'll have a look to see if there are Dutch internetshops also exporting to France. The professional and expensive Sikkens and Sigma paints are also available in France.

Department don't shoot the pianist or painterman: the Wijzonol paint we've been using is not water based (easy come, easy go), it's the old traditional oil/solvent type I'm more familiar with.

[Blaze]

@RobertArthur We live in an area that is considered to be at risk of submersion by the sea (PPRSM) and being in the red zone, no habitable construction is allowed, including extensions, verandas etc. That said, some people seem to have got away with it ...
We are directly exposed to the north-east and south-west winds, rain and sun and the salt air is very corrosive. Our house is built on sand and clay. As far as flood/submersion risk goes, the currents in the Channel are in our favour and other areas along the coast are far more at risk. The PPRSM was introduced as a knee-jerk reaction after the Xinthia tragedy at La Faute sur Mer in 2010.

Like you, we'd rather use oil-based paints for exterior woodwork as there is no realistic alternative. Most of the older houses round here have had their wooden windows replaced with PVC or aluminium. No-one does the reverse !

[Hotrodder]

I have to admit, I hate most of the water-based materials I have tried. They don't seem to have the right consistency when applying, and they are certainly not as long lasting. On top of that you need 50% more to cover the same area as oil-based.
If everyone is going for pvc these days then people will have to follow the trend or join the shabby chic brigade to retain the traditional French charm. I am seeing more and more of the ubiquitous B&Q (Brico Depot) mock Georgian plastic front doors with the integral fake fanlight spoiling the facade of old French cottages and houses. Nauseating travesty. And seeing exactly the same in many other countries thanks to global monopolies.

[Loup-garou]

Thanks again everyone especially for the pictures RA and the tip about "peinture-destock.com" Headers. Like you, I had hoped to effect a good job this time and not need to worry about it in the future. Time Madam L-G received some lessons in outside painting methinks!

I am not averse to getting paint from the UK and use Sadolin a lot to good effect but that has always been on virgin wood as opposed to old stripped back wood.

[RobertArthur]

@ Loup-Garou, when I had to sell my 2 CV, a dull greyish-beige paint that had seen better days, I went to the Citroën dealer and asked for a red colour, something like Rouge Cinabre. A popular early nitrocellulose lacquer paint in the sixties and early seventies. The smell was, to put it mildly, rather pungent. They asked me, already noticing that I was not a professional car painter: are you going to use a paint sprayer or a paintbrush? Well, it is a sunny afternoon, on the street it will be with a brush. Then we'll put some extra solvent in this tin. Be careful: the painting has to be done in a continuous motion, otherwise your brush will "freeze" in the paint. Message understood and reported it, back from mission, to girlfriend # 2, today still wife # 1. She did an excellent job, car in showroom condition, ready to be sold.

To cut a long story short: she continued with painting, outside and also inside.
Here Mr. RA is the person to receive some further lessons.

[Loup-garou]

Very good RA.

A friend in our village painted a 2 CV he was restoring with a roller. I don't suppose it was proper auto paint and I was really sceptical but, I admit, the end result was excellent and it sold immediately it was advertised.

[Hotrodder]

The UK brand "Rustoleum" is famous for being easily applied with a roller and then finished off with a few brush strokes. Really does last well and once it has hardened it can be polished to improve it.

The nitrocellulose material is still available in the UK but you have to tell them porkies about what car it is going on. It is still allowed for restorations. https://shop.autopaintsbrighton.co.uk/index.asp was where I bought Ford diamond white for my Transit respray. (Also used it for my home built high fi speaker boxes)