Black Magic paint.

[Yorkie]

Our house - one a small private estate of 40 houses - is 22 years old and has black Marley gutterring and downpipes. I've since painted and repainted the gutters and downpipes twice using 'International' primer and gloss black gutter paint, which has a ten year guarantee. Why paint black guttering black, some might ask? Because after a few years, the black is leached out by UV and the guttering often turns grey. The few on the estate who haven't painted their gutters have an unsightly mix of fittings which have stayed black for some reason (different pigment), and gutters and downspouts which have turned grey. Being black of course, not only are they affected by UV, they get extremely hot in bright sunlight (not that this rare phenomenon would trouble Colin's gutters!), and that probably doesn't help.

Reading the reviews of the Black Magic paint at the link, by far the most are highly favourable, but are mostly by people who have just applied the paint. The unfavourable reviews concern its alleged lack of long term durabilty, and in one case, poor adhesion, including to new metal body sills on a car. I'm not sure that I'd paint a wrought iron fence or cast iron garden chairs and tables with satin paint as some reviewers have done, as to my mind satin it looks like gloss paint that has lost its gloss and needs re-painting, but that's just my view - it's all down to personal preference - clearly others prefer satin to gloss. In that regard, having recently bought a new car, when browsing and deciding what to buy, I've been astounded at what - to me - are the most ghastly colours of some new cars, so there's no accounting for taste. The makers wouldn't supply such colours unless they'd carefully researched them.