Blimey O'Riley!! This was extremely hard paint to work with. Would rather work with cement!! What would have taken an hour to do with emulsion took nearly 4 hours to do with the texture paint. The consistency was very stiff and seemed to contain more sand than paint and so took a lot of hard muscle work and sweat to get the coverage needed. What I did like about this paint was the ease of getting the lid off, and from there it was all downhill. Think Wilko should sell this in the Keep Fit aisle :-))

About a year ago I submitted a praising review on Wilko's Right Price Brilliant White Paint but now I find myself writing a poor review on its replacement product.

Having just stripped my living room and dining room ceilings from their ugly artex with one of my favourite products, X-Tex, it needed painting over the exposed plaster base.

Having bought Wilko's Right Price paint before and used throughout the upstairs I went to buy some more. However, I found that the Right Price paint had been replaced by Everyday value which didn't really concern me and I was happy with the price tag of £4 for 5 litres which would have been enough to do both ceilings.

My intention was to 'wash' the ceiling with a half and half mix of paint and water to seal the plaster then give a coat or two by paint pad and finish off with a roller.

I was immediately concerned with how transparent the whitewash was and even moreso when the first paint pad coat also was very see-through. Two more pad coats later and I was still not impressed with the colour.

I applied three coats with a roller and there were still dark patches showing through the paint and I'd used 4 litres on a 16sqm ceiling.

Although the paint was a thick consistency and its colour looked very white it's clearly lacking in pigment.

I would not recommend the Everyday Value range of paints for anything other than sprucing up an existing painted ceiling (or wall if using the magnolia colour).

The good thing about Wilko is their satisfaction guarantee and I returned the paint to swap it for their more expensive version without argument which covered the other ceiling in 3 coats, a review to follow soon I'd wager.