Specialist paint colours for garage door

[Arellcat]

My garage door is due a repaint.  What I think is the original tan coloured enamel is underneath some not very nice matt paint whose terracotta colour I detest anyway, and which is now peeling away after I washed the door with sugar soap the other day.

What I want to do is get some decent paint that I can roller on, maybe enamel, maybe polyurethane, probably solvent based.

But I would like to get it in BS318C 539 Currant Red, not Dulux or Zinsser or Tikkurila's latest fashionable red shades that are unobtainable five years later, as I have found when trying to redecorate rooms.   I know the colour values for the paint I want but there aren't exact¹ matches from the major suppliers.

Are the paint mixing suppliers better these days?  The first and only time I used Johnstone's colour matching service, I got five litres of Dulux-inspired creamy pink that turned out to be a variation on magnolia and I'm reminded of it every time I sit in the living room.

^{1  Yes, I know it's just a garage door.} 

[robgul]

Go to a branch of Brewers - they (at least at my local one) are wizard at paint matching and have numerous base options.

[Lightning Phil]

https://www.advancedpaints.co.uk/product/currant-red-539/

[Tod28]

Dulux decorating Centre can and will mix any colour from their back catalogue, and for all their derivative brands and to ral no's etc, BS318C 539 Currant Red should not be a problem for them either. They don't really stock tins of coloured paint (they leave that for the retail sheds) but mix you up even the current 'catalogue ' colours.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Homebase does paint mixing. They mixed a colour for our garage door that was a good enough match to keep Mrs A happy. That means it would be good enough for anyone on the planet.

[Wombat]

Dulux decorating Centre can and will mix any colour from their back catalogue, and for all their derivative brands and to ral no's etc, BS318C 539 Currant Red should not be a problem for them either. They don't really stock tins of coloured paint (they leave that for the retail sheds) but mix you up even the current 'catalogue ' colours.

dulux decorating centres don't seem to acknowledge the existence of the old BS381C colours, but Johnstones ones do, and their paint is made in the UK, unlike much of the Dulux stuff.

[Wombat]

My garage door is due a repaint.  What I think is the original tan coloured enamel is underneath some not very nice matt paint whose terracotta colour I detest anyway, and which is now peeling away after I washed the door with sugar soap the other day.

What I want to do is get some decent paint that I can roller on, maybe enamel, maybe polyurethane, probably solvent based.

But I would like to get it in BS318C 539 Currant Red, not Dulux or Zinsser or Tikkurila's latest fashionable red shades that are unobtainable five years later, as I have found when trying to redecorate rooms.   I know the colour values for the paint I want but there aren't exact¹ matches from the major suppliers.

Are the paint mixing suppliers better these days?  The first and only time I used Johnstone's colour matching service, I got five litres of Dulux-inspired creamy pink that turned out to be a variation on magnolia and I'm reminded of it every time I sit in the living room.

Johnstones Decorating Centres can mix any BS381C colours.  they've done it regularly for me.  In my case 369 and 414 (two British Railways Western Region colours, for the local heritage railway.  Forget Dulux centres, they don't have that discontinued BS range on their computer system, evidently.

^{1  Yes, I know it's just a garage door.} 

[Wombat]

Dulux decorating Centre can and will mix any colour from their back catalogue, and for all their derivative brands and to ral no's etc, BS318C 539 Currant Red should not be a problem for them either. They don't really stock tins of coloured paint (they leave that for the retail sheds) but mix you up even the current 'catalogue ' colours.

Only its not in their back catalogue, unless they've added it to their system in the last year.

Johnstones/PPG do, though.

[Pickled Onion]

Red paint is notorious for fading when used outdoors, if I were going to paint garage doors red I'd be looking for the highest quality pigments. So probably not Homebase or Dulux. Maybe go and ask at a boatyard or steam railway where they source their paints.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

I used to use 'International' paints on my boat. Very tough marine coating. On a garage door it'd last a very long time. 

[Wombat]

Just a thought, if said garage door is galvanised, as many are, you will need special primers, and possibly mordant solution.  The primer and undercoat are a critical part of any paint system.  Studying the chosen manufacturers technical info is well worthwhile.

Never be tempted to use boat paints intended for use on steel, on a wooden structure.  If metal, then fine.  Wooden things need to breathe, hence the existence of microporous paints.

Final thought, just don't ever, buy paint from a DIY shed, its cheaper for a reason.  Only ever use "trade" paints, but make sure you have read their technical info first.