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13th October 2019, 02:23 PM #1Senior Member
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British Paints stain vs Wattyl Traditional
Nearly running out of my Wattyl Traditional Golden Oak stain, I went to Bunnings to get another tin only to find they no longer stock Wattyl, only McFeasts. And that the little tins are $30 or thereabouts.
Anyway, way up on a top shelf such that I had to get one of their little red stools to climb up and reach it, they had some British Paints Oak stain clearing for $4.54, so I thought, what the heck, I'll buy it anyway and see what it's like. I got home and rub a little onto a test piece I had previously rubbed one end with the Wattly stain, and be damned if it didn't look exactly the same! I shot back to Bunnings and grabbed the 3 remaining tins.
What I noticed then was that Bunnings had only lowered it from $6, whereas I had assumed it to be priced like the Wattyl and McFeast tins at $30+, so it seems to imply that all of the British Paints stains are around $6. Begs the question - why is it so?
So has anyone had much experience with the British Paints stains? Good? Bad? Ugly? And if they are okay, then what does an additional $25/tin give you with Wattyl and McFeast?
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14th October 2019, 07:23 PM #2Senior Member
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Cabots jumped about 30% when Bunny become the sole retailer, so I wouldn't take their pricing as an indication of worth.
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