Painting vs Rendering

[mnorman007]

Today I came across this stuff "Dulux Full Cover Exterior Texture". I went to there website and did some reading on it and basically its an alternative to rendering and then painting. http://www.dulux.com.au/html/texture/
My cynical side says "too good to be true" as rendering tends to be carefully expensive and time consuming. Not sure what price this retails at but really want to know if anyone has come across this before? I searched with no result.
Has anybody seen it before on a wall?
Actually used it?
How does it compare to rendering?
What about longterm?

Could be a great alternative if its as good as it actually claims.
Cheers,
M.

[woodbe]

Dunno about that product, but we've had good results with Dulux Acratex: http://www.acratex.com.au/

Some of it has been on the wall for 5 years so far, still looks good.

woodbe

[mnorman007]

I would say they are very similar products at a quick look. Was your rolled/sprayed on?
What sort of look does it give? More of a render or a painted wall?
Do you have a picture of what it looks like?
Also, did you do do it yourself and what sort of cost was associated with it?

Im suprised there is not more talk of these sort of products with the massive push for render and that look. These seem much simpler.

Thanks for the feedback.
M.

[myla]

hello,

Dulux full cover texture costs about $109/10L bucket, do not buy it

you can get same stuff (Acratex Coventry Course) for about $76/15L bucket, Acratex is owned by Dulux, full cover was created to get into the DIY market without much success

the desired affect will depend solely on whether your bricks are raked out or flush and whether you want a really good finish

"render paint" is a false term

thankyou

myla

[woodbe]

We recently had some new work done to match the existing, and it's a very close match. Dulux came out and took a sample of the old stuff and ran it through their computer colour matching. Top Job...

The new stuff was cement block. It was hard rendered to flat surface in the normal way with sand/lime/cement and the acratex was applied on top with rollers. The finish is a rough texture. Looks a million bucks :) Speaking of which, it was part of a building contract, have no idea what it actually cost, but it was definitely less than a million...

woodbe.

[Quikcote]

As a product for do it yourselfers, it should work pretty well. As a qualified renderer i'll always stick to rendering and then paint or texture over that. But remember the product is only as good as the person who applys it. If you follow the instructions, it should turn out pretty well, for what it is designed for.

[myla]

hello,

on a side note, Quikcote has probably the finest bag mixture of renders going around

use them all the time, with Dulux Coventry Course over the top

thankyou

myla

[jags]

Hi mnormam

I also looked into this kind of product .

From what i found out it depends on what you are going to apply it to to weather it will work and have the effect you are after . if you are applying it to a brick surface i would not bother . It is not really designed for this purpose if you are after a flat rendered finnish not a brick wall that looks like it has been painted .
And it's not cheap . i think the going rate for one coat grey is about $17.50 a m2 so after you have aplied 20 coats to get the effect you are after at $109 for 10L i think the one coat grey is the best way to go .And then 5 years down the track when you get sick of the colour you are able to paint over it .

(IMO)

Rob

[mnorman007]

I love it when my cynical side is right for once.
We all know what they say about products too good to be true. Oh well, off to get some more practice on the rendering.
thanks for all the opinions and experience.
Michael

[rmartens]

In general dulux makes good products for texture coating. The only thing if your walls arent straight to begin with and you like a nice isometrical finish, you cant get it unless you float a base coat of render to begin with. Because unless everything is straight it will just follow what is already there.