An overwhelming number of paints are available nowadays on the market. Even when contemplating a white interior emulsion from a single manufacturer the options can be hugely confusing, with little guidance in a concise form on any website I really could find. One dilemma is the Online Diamond Painting choice between Dulux Trade Matt Emulsion.

A quick shop around will confirm the options:

Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt (or as you customer called it, Vinly Slick)
Dulux Trade Supermatt
Dulux Trade Diamond Matt
There's also the non trade line but I will not bother with those as this question would almost certainly arise in the trades. So here goes:

Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt: Is named so because it's plastics added to increase durability, particularly when surface is wiped down and cleaned in the future. Although it is not completely resistant, it will need a little more abuse a non vinyl paint. Extremely good opacity.

Dulux Trade Supermatt: This really is paint that's the brand new build in your mind, or at least new plaster. This paint could be put on plaster that is still drying. Reason being, there's no vinyl quality to this paint, no plastic so to speak. Therefore it remains more porous and the plaster can continue to breath beneath.

Dulux Trade Diamond Matt: The tough one of many bunch! Have kids and painting the hallway walls? This is the one for you, advertised to be 10x tougher. I could believe it when I take advantage of it. You actually feel like you're painting on a layer of vinyl. Although credit to Dulux, it goes on well and you would not know.

So listed here is a scenario to highlight the differences: You're performing a job and its a hallway, stairs and landing. The plasterers have just finished. The chippy has been in to hang all of the doors, fit skirting board and architrave etc.

Firstly you paint all of the bare plaster (ceiling and walls), in Supermatt, mixed to a proportion of water. This will be much more that 30% but less than 50% depending mostly on preference. I would claim that over 30% is rather safe, as in it'll soak into the plaster rather than create a layer that'll just peel off. Especially important to use the Supermatt where plaster has not exactly dried, as a result of porous qualities mentioned earlier. We could use Supermatt or Vinyl Matt for the last two coats on the ceiling, some recommend a final coat of the Vinyl.

We then paint all of the walls with one coat of Vinyl Matt. This give a great opacity and covers very well. A second coat where we want to finish with this particular paint.

The consumer has specified that she has your dog and three children, they desire the most truly effective because of their new home and are searching for durability, they dont wish to be calling you back to the touch up in 6 months because all of the walls in the immediate hallway are dirty and the paint is worn where it's been wiped down so mny times. So we apply Diamond Matt on both walls in the hallway and continue the up the stairs.

This really is just an illustration to delineate the various qualities of the paints. Hope this gives a simple comprehension of the differences. The Dulux site has extensive informative data on these paints but no comparative data.