Morris Minor Owners Club

whilst helping my decorator uncle paint a house, he used a product that when added to gloss paint, it dried in half the time.

what was it called? as it would be very helpful in painting my front door.

n.b,

i would ring him, but he is in Australia and wound appreciate being woken at daft o'clock for something so trivial

It's called japan dryer, ask at your local paint dealer.

In this heat?

I wouldn't recommend using driers (terebine driers at decorators merchants) at this time of year. If anything, for a front door, especially if it's a panelled door where you'll need to keep several wet edges going, a retarder would be more appropriate. I assume you realise that driers is for use with oil based and not acrylic paint.

In this weather - the problem is indeed to keep the paint wet enough to avoid drag marks!