Dulux Trade Diamond Pure brilliant white Eggshell Metal & wood paint, 5L

This paint went on well and looked classy. Finish was not shiny which I wanted. Good coverage. Used on woodwork and radiators, good finish on both.

This only gets the one star because it doesn't smell nasty like the solvent based stuff. I bought this to repaint woodwork in a new-build house wit matt white woodwork. the paint covers poorly, leaving brush marks and streaks.
After the woodwork had dried thoroughly, I found that when I caught the door with my fingernail while opening it, the paint came off under my nail leaving a clear mark on the surface.
Now need to bite the bullet and buy more solvent-based eggshell to do the job properly. These water-based paints are useless for woodwork!

This is the first water based eggshell paint I have purchased.
It dries very quickly - so quickly that it is impossible not to leave brush strokes behind.
Despite painting over only slightly yellowed old white paint - it required THREE coats to get a uniform white colour.
Diamond tough finish? - I'm afraid not - even the slightest knock causes the paint to come off.
I will not be buying this Dulux paint again.

This paint caused me a bit of a headache but I ended up working out its intricacies after a few days of trial and error. I hope these tips can be useful to someone.

I bought it to paint an understairs cupboard I got made out of MDF. I prepped the MDF with 3 thin layers of Leyland Acrylic Primer Undercoat, lightly sanding with 220 sandpaper between each coat. I used a small 4” foam roller to do this, and it worked a treat.

However, when I tried using the same roller on the doors of the cupboard using Dulux’s Diamond Eggshell, I kept getting terrible, obvious roller marks. I bought more 4” rollers with various textures (mohair, fluffy ones, etc.) and same result every time. Horrible roller marks wouldn’t go away! I also read that other people seemed to be having the same problem.

In the end, I tried a normal Harris 9” roller I had bought to paint my walls. Because the roller is bigger, it loads and applies a lot more paint, leaving no marks.

The trick for a nice finish is to roll in one direction only. No back and forth or W shapes. And by lightly rolling the surface after laying down the paint, you get a beautiful, perfectly even orange peel texture.

I’m very pleased with the finished look, almost matte with a very delicate sheen.

Where I had to use a brush, I had to put a lot more paint on my brush than I would using oil based paint. I haven’t tried it on skirting yet, but I heard Purdy Monarch Elite brushes were good ones to use for a nice finish.

Bought this as I thought it would give a superior finish to normal eggshell.
Definately not the case paint not easy to roller and leaves heavy brush marks. Very disappointed