Really? Is it cheaper than whitworths?

Sectorsteve said..
Really? Is it cheaper than whitworths?

Bunning's say if you can find it cheaper elsewhere in a physical or online store they will beat it by 10% www.bunnings.com.au/price-policy

Regards Don

For me its the convenience as Whitworth are in the city and not many freight companies like handling paint.
There special orders dept are contacting them on Monday see if they can get me some Perfection as that's not stocked.
Ill drop by Bunnings in the morning and take a photo of what the stock and post it
< feel like one any way

If things are such in Sydney as are in Queensland, the
International rep, after my mate phoned them, turned up and gave very valuable advie on thechnical questions how to prepair the hull and some tricks when using Interprotect. After that, he came to see progress twice.
His service was impressive.

No, l am sorry, l blissfully ignored all details technical, l only cut osmosis after osmosis fow a week.

Good info seabird. Sounds logical to me.!!.

Trek said...

Good spotting HG :-)

I found Bunnings also has ply, epoxy, 2 pack and s/s fittings but those are dodgy.

I've used there marine ply as long as you go through the stack it seems ok
$90 for a 750 ml perfection off bunnings

dkd said..

Have only good about International. The agent in SA watched over the entire process of painting my boat and his advice followed all the way.

I work on the theory that if his advice is followed and it is done to the letter, if I have an issue it is his issue too ....... and he agreed.

Nothing but good to say about them

As for Bunnings, why would you buy anything from them, cheap, nasty and, imo, about the worst customer service in the country .... pay a tad more and support the local businesses. God help me if I have to step into the "big green shed"

You miss my point completely . Whitworths is in the city miles out of my way. Googling for a retailer on Google gave me no choice as to closer retailers except for Sandringham. Which is still a out of my way.
I don,t have time to drive into the city on a Saturday and during the week it means driving into peak hour.
I want International not some other brand .
And you are saying cheap and nasty International paint from Bunnings ????IMO back mate
Bunnings is on the way to the boat is five minuets away from Home
There used to be a chandlers close by but he moved I used to use him 99% of the time .
I hate driving in the city. and drive as less as i can I'm a Bushy and I will be out of here as soon as I retire

HG02 said..
Whitworths is in the city miles out of my way. Googling for a retailer on Google gave me no choice as to closer retailers except for Sandringham. Which is still a out of my way.

Some BCF stores have International paint as well, as long as you only want white.

HG02 said..


Whitworths only carry white in 4 ltr tins also 750 ml in some other colors
The trouble is with paint these days is freight its class as a dangerous good and the freight cost applies .

I had the same problem with distance from the nearest WW shop so I ordered everything online at once to save freight. I forgot to order any paint brushes so I went past the local paint shop and found they stocked Northane Gloss so I bought a small tin to try out and as far as I can tell it is similar to International Perfection but cheaper. If I was to do it again I'd definitely use that. As for brushes I ended up using disposable ones. I'm not a professional painter so I found the badger paint brushes wasted on me. The 5 bucks for 5 brushes Harris Taskmaster set from Masters were handling the 2 pack poly and epoxy paint as good as 36 bucks WW Redtree ones and shedding a lot less bristles. I tried cleaning the Redtree brushes but was using more thinner then the brush was worth and still didn't work as good as a new one so I saved the last 2 for tipping the final coat and used the cheapies for everything else and checked them out instead of cleaning them.

samsturdy said..

Following the advice from you guys I went to Bunnings at Thornliegh to get Perfection paint...and they DON"T stock it.
How come you guys can get it where you are and I can't get it where I am???????. I thought Bunnings would be the
same all over. Grrrrrrr.

Perfection two pack you need to do a Bunnings special order and pay up front

rrrrG back at you

They carry a basic range of International
Go to the Bunnings special order counter Sam my man

samsturdy said..

Oh.....right HG. How come the serving man never told me that.?? They stock Norglass but Missus
said she's only going to use Perfection.....so that's it. Rang Whitworths and they have what we need in
stock.....so they've put it aside for me. I don't mind paying a couple of dollars extra if there's no
mucking about.

That what I did last time Sam
Its just a pain driving in there for me I don.t know why Whitworths don't move out of the city down here