My brother in law is a painter, he makes painting a room look exceptionally easy and can do a whole room extremely quickly using any paint. He had most of a bucket of B&Q value white emulsion left over from when he painted his own house so passed it on to me when I was painting my own house. I am not a professional painter and decorator and need all the help I can get when painting and the B&Q paint made the job a lot harder for me than it needed to be. This is a very thin paint, some paints like Dulux are almost solid but this is about the consistency of double cream. This does mean that it is easy to pour into the roller tray but means that it is a ...  Read the complete review

As some of you know, I am currently having my bathroom remodelled and after mentioning to one of the lovely workmen that my ceiling needed painting he kindly offered to do it for me before putting in the shower cubicle. He recommended the B&Q Value Silk Emulsion and said it was very reasonably priced and overall a decent product. After going to B&Q I realised it really was extremely reasonable in price at only £3.98 for a 2.5 litre tub, although for reasons quite beyond his control the workman wasn't able to paint the ceiling so I called in my son in law to do the job. Initially he was very impressed at the bargain paint I had found, ...  Read the complete review

I'm currently living in a mess at the moment, I have four rooms currently work in progress and to get them finished I will let of a sigh of relief. DIY when doing it on a big scale can be a costly expense, however I have been trying to work on a budget and I am getting there slowly but surely. In order to to reduce costs when I saw B&Q value emulsion, 5 litres for an extremely good price I couldn't help but buy some. I have always stuck to what I know in the past, Dulux and Crown etc, purely because they are the best and they do a better job. Initially I thought the B&Q won't be that good but it can't be that bad either so I took the plunge hoping ...  Read the complete review