is paint essential

paul66

paul66

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obviously not, or is it...

the instruction is to stay at home, which i get, so what are people going to do, allowing purchasing of paint will keep people at home, or at least give them something to do. walking the dogs earlier got me thinking of this, gleaming cars, trimmed lawns, etc, people do this all the time, it just seems like everyones doing it because theres nothing else to do. painting is something most people can tackle in varying degrees of success obviously, it just seems obvious to me its a home based activity that is perhaps being stifled that could help.

the other thing that i think would help leads me back to my school days, stay left, when out walking perhaps a starting point of people passing each other would be to say stay to the left, itd take a lot of guesswork out of it for a lot of people
 
paul66 said:
obviously not, or is it...

the instruction is to stay at home, which i get, so what are people going to do, allowing purchasing of paint will keep people at home, or at least give them something to do. walking the dogs earlier got me thinking of this, gleaming cars, trimmed lawns, etc, people do this all the time, it just seems like everyones doing it because theres nothing else to do. painting is something most people can tackle in varying degrees of success obviously, it just seems obvious to me its a home based activity that is perhaps being stifled that could help.

the other thing that i think would help leads me back to my school days, stay left, when out walking perhaps a starting point of people passing each other would be to say stay to the left, itd take a lot of guesswork out of it for a lot of people
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Allowing B and Q to open kind of suggests it is.
 
You can't actually buy paint from B&Q, it's "open" (click and collect only) for those things deemed essential. So you can buy stuff to fix your heating or roof, but not paint and BBQ's.

If you go to the website, you'll see some stuff is available and some stuff isn't.
 
They have closed both Homebase and B and Q in my town. Painting is clearly not an essential activity. Understand the point about incentives to stay at home but there are clearly other things that can be done at home that prevents you fro having to visit a store to pick up supplies.
 
We bought paint and stuff for the garden in the days leading up to the lockdown, ended up being a couple of bags of gravel down on the garden project and haven’t started the decorating as yet but I would say that trips out to purchase things for decorating or the garden wouldn’t be essential, but, and here is the grey area, if you went to say B&M to buy essentials should you be allowed to buy garden or decorating stuff too ? Or if on the way home from work on route there is a garden centre open is it ok to call and buy stuff ?
 
Waiting for the "painting helps my mental health" excuses......

Seen plenty of those sort of comments on social media.
 
I keep hearing that all these places are open, people are going to the beach and people are going out picking up paint and garden furniture for their "mental health".

Mental health is important, very important, but it's not currently the top trump, and people need to remember that.
There's a disease out there spreading like wildfire and killing 1000's of people. One mans mental health is not more important than potentially having the knock on effect of infecting 1,000 people.

I would sit and throw a ball at the wall for two month, if it meant my nurse mates and family were not having to deal with the $hit they are at James Cook.

Just shut the shops (other than for food) and places people can congregate and this will all be over sooner.

If shops can kit their staff out in PPE, then they should be able to stay open, but only for deliveries.
 
RandySavage said:
Waiting for the "painting helps my mental health" excuses......

Seen plenty of those sort of comments on social media.
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Yeah exactly what I was writing about, like their "mental health" is more important than 10 actual people dead, and putting 100's of NHS staff at risk that they didn't ask for, and aren't kitted out for.

Some of them will be out clapping on Thursday no doubt.
 
People could do a paint share on their street if they're that bothered, after disinfecting the cans of course.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
You can't actually buy paint from B&Q, it's "open" (click and collect only) for those things deemed essential. So you can buy stuff to fix your heating or roof, but not paint and BBQ's.

If you go to the website, you'll see some stuff is available and some stuff isn't.
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You can add paint to your click and collect order on B&Q website
 
TheFair86 said:
You can add paint to your click and collect order on B&Q website
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My comment was based on last week when you couldn't add any (I know this as I'm short for a room we decided to paint ourselves rather than wait for a painter & decorator to be available).

Looking at the website now it looks like a lot more are available - I wonder what the change was from B&Q's perspective ?

Edit:- Looks like BBQ's are also available, and they've changed the wording on what is available too. A strange U-turn from them.
 
I'm going shopping today. Is it wrong to call in Wilkos on way back to buy decking and fence paint? I know everyone will say yes it is, but why is a shop like Wilkos open then? Who does their proper shop there?
 
Fluffycarpet said:
I'm going shopping today. Is it wrong to call in Wilkos on way back to buy decking and fence paint? I know everyone will say yes it is, but why is a shop like Wilkos open then? Who does their proper shop there?
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It's probably open, as the owners will claim they're there to support some of the trades, so the trades can stay in work, although I doubt many in the trades would actually get anything from there.
 
1finny said:
Are Easter Eggs, sweets, booze essential as well?
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Tough one that, but they do have a calorific value, so could help people stay alive, although saying that, they probably do more harm than good.

Stuff like that lasts for ages though, so shouldn't need multiple shop visits over a month.

I wouldn't be making trips purposely to get just those items. The way I see it, If it's like 10% of a shopping trolley then it's likely making little difference, seeing as people will likely walk passed those items on the shelves anyway.
 
1finny said:
Are Easter Eggs, sweets, booze essential as well?
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If it's part of your shop then what's the problem? Like Wev said going out just for these is a bit irresponsible. But with little corner shops still open you know fine well people are going out each day for their beer etc. Reports of police a week ago checking people's shopping and giving them warnings for having Easter Eggs is totally ridiculous.
 
There is a store called The Range where I live that sells a lot of paint and is open, B&M also sells paint. I see both arguments with DIY materials. We don't need most DIY materials to live, but realistically your average person is struggling to stay at home and watch TV or surf the web etc for 3 weeks and likely more.

Ref: Mental Health - for SOME people this is a bigger issue in their lives than physical health - I had a brave grandfather who fought for 8 years in WW1 and WW2, badly wounded twice, recovered in a trench from Spanish Flu, saved hundreds of fellow troops, but took his own life years later.
 
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