Bought Delux weather shield, spent ages in the summer preparing the surface - garage doors, put a dulux primer on, the paint dried looked lovely. Now 4 months later, the paint is bubbling, blistering and coming off. This product is not worthy of the Delux logo. It is auful, not fit for purpose how will it last - I dont know how it ever got into production. now what do I do - what a waste of life that was - it does not even last one season.

I am a time served decorator of 40 years , I have a small decorating business with only a couple of guys working for me. Went to use Weathershield exterior gloss on a job the other day (supplied by customer) and it was absolute garbage ,no coverage at all despite all our efforts , any attempt to try and put on a wet coat to try and cover it was met with runs. I bought a similar colour the next day , only difference being it was Johnstones exterior that thankfully covered the Dulux rubbish in one coat. My recommendation for this rubbish is "DONT BUY IT"

Neither the undercoat or the gloss have enough body (yes it was stirred enough) . I used the Trade versions of Weathershield it’s the new formulations I suspect as previous versions have been fine. But lack of solids is nothing to do with VOC I used a three coat system light colour paint on some sashes but had to patch prime with aluminium oil based primer. On edges it was very difficult to get the Weathershield to stop the grey grinning through. The gloss was so thin it was difficult to stop runs onto the glass. This is just not good enough to be a professional or diy product.

The paint is thick like treacle and goes on leaving brush markes like tram lines. The coverage is poor and it dries so fast that you cant blend areas. It is the worse paint I've ever used.

This is by far the drippiest 'thinnest' paint I've ever used - might as well paint with milk! There is no substance to this paint - trying to paint the soffits and fascias is a total nightmare - there's drips and runs everywhere! It's left a mess on the walls, the patio, mu equipment and me! Never again will I buy this paint.

Quite simply the worst paint I've ever used, and I've done a bit, for all the reasons cited on this website. Just don't go there.

I'm an experienced painter and liked Weathershield v much in its old, oil-based formula. This water-based stuff is awful. It's very viscous, so difficult to apply, but the worst thing is that it dries far too quickly. That means that, if you cross-brush anything you painted as little as a minute before, the surface becomes a total mess. It was just about acceptable where I used it on my garage, but if it had been the house windows I'd have been furious. NEVER use this paint. Nice colour, though!

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I returned this to Homebase as it wasn't adhering well and was smearing across the undercoat and 'pitting'. They wouldn't refund me but did call Dulux for me. Although I used Dulux undercoat, it wasn't Weathershield undercoat. The Dulux undercoat that I used was solvent-based whereas the Weathershield gloss is water-based and needs a water-based u/c unless you leave at least a week between coats. It didn't say this on the tin!

I painted my house with Dulux Weathershield a year ago. But within one year, even though they claim that this paint does not get faded and also is a anti fungal paint, my house has terribly been effected with fungus and also the paint got faded. The paint comes with a 5 year warranty. I contacted the customer service people. They kept saying different reasons each time. They cross checked every thing to decline my complaint but couldn't find any fault from my side. So finally asked to submit my bill so that they would do the necessary. I submitted the bill and that was the final time they responded. I had been lagging behind them for months now. They doesnot even have the courtesy to respond back!! I am completely #dissatisfied with Dulux paint and its customer service. I strongly believe that this product does not meet its standards.

I used this paint last year, and it still looks good. I even have some left over. I like this paint, and I am happy with it.

I've been buying Dulux paint for nearly 50 years, but after my recent experience with their Weathershield exterior paint, I will never buy their products again ! I purchased a can of Weathershield undercoat and a can of Weathershield exterior gloss to repaint my well prepared front door. After two coats of undercoat I applied two coats of the gloss following the instructions on the cans. The end result was a very thin matt finish with a sporadic white powdery bloom showing through. I rubbed the door down again and applied another undercoat and another top coat with the same aweful results! I had a word with the paint department supervisor at B & Q who said he had had similar complaints recently, so he had taken it upon himself to ring Dulux for an explanation. Dulux pointed out that they are now producing the Weathershield range as water based products, not solvent based as in the past - you can't mix the two up - we checked my tins, and yes, my undercoat was water based and the gloss was the old solvent based paint........ why Dulux had not notified B & Q of their change in their paints I shall never know, but the shelves in my local store have a right mixture of solvent based and water based Weathershield products which are not compatible when used together, and no warning notice advising customners of this fact. Oh well, so I bought a can of water based satin finish top coat, rubbed down and undercoated the door again, then applied two top coats........ exactly the same results as before...... Absolute bloody disaster!

I recently bought Dulux Diamond finish paint thinking that being the top of the line of Dulux paint it would be a good paint. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG !!! It was the worst paint I've used in over 30 years... It runs,drips and smears. the first coat coverage was terrible. In short...I would NEVER buy it again, let alone recommend it to ANYONE to use.

Rubbish paint, poor coverage - Recommend you get Crown or B&Q anything else.

Our wood window frames are circa 7 years old and some time ago needed repainting. We chose the above paint on a recommendation from B&Q. We have owned 14 houses over the past 50 years or so and many of them I have repainted at least in part. My experience with this paint is one for the record book ie over the past 18 months I have painted the sills four times, mainly because I blamed other factors for the paint failure. Factors such as the wrong undercoat, using a primer/undercoat instead of primer then undercoat, inclement weather shortly after painting etc The problem has been not thin paint, coverage, finish or fading as mentioned by others, but wrinkling and cracking only weeks after painting. I know there is no point in complaining to either B&Q or Dulux since they will never accept responsibility for poor results, preferring to cite factors outside their control. After more than 100 years of reseach by paint manufacturers we are entitled to expect better than this.If electronics had progressed at at similar pace we would not even have the valve radio! One last point, I measured the moisture level in the sills and found two to be > 25% which would account for the problems, however the remainder were <12% which is very dry and therefore could not be the cause. No the cause in the paint itself!

Within months of my exterior doors and windows and window frames being painted, the paint noticeably faded and began to split and flake. I was furious as it was a professionally done job costing £2,500 on our listed thatched cottage. I cannot fault the painter who was diligent and thorough throughout the job (three weeks). After considerable correspondence with Dulux customer services I have been offered (in writing) a repaint free of charge, although Dulux do not of course admit their paint is useless. Sadly, the repaint will be done with the same stuff. I am now very worried as clearly the repaint could not be done in this past wet winter so now large areas of the wooden sills and frames are totally unprotected.

I chose Dulux Weathershield as normally they are good paints, and I tend to chose by the price too, which is not always a guarantee of quality I know. I am re-painting my front door (black gloss) and am finding the paint is very thin, does not give good coverage and drips everywhere. After one coat it looks like the worst paint job on the planet, not sure what the Jones' will think, lol I am going to try to return it to B€Q to swap for something oil based as it seems that all the water bed products are thin and look awful.