Polycell Products Ltd. Reviews 12

Crack Free Ceiling Smooth Matt paint does NOT hide hairline cracks or hide stains and has a non-matt sheen - so overpainting is a must if you want a matt finish. I am very disappointed even after two coats following the instructions - a waste of money and NOT worth my while.
In my view Polycell hope to sell one tin to every customer so it's worthwhile TO THEM.

Pollysell ripple it is just very expensive paint no ripple and hides nothing

Absolute rubbish stuff is Polyripple, no texture and crap coverage! Doesn’t hide much at all, don’t buy!

Polycell Smoothover. Is anything but smooth, followed the instructions exactly, applied 1m² at a time, the product dries to quickly, when overlapped as is said to do on the tub, the overlapping pulls the previously applied product off the wall, coverage is no where near what is stated on the tub, it's messy, expensive and not fit for purpose at all, would be cheaper and easier skimming the wall. Only given this product a one star because i have to, it's not even worth that in my opinion.

I purchased a tub of "maximum strength paint and varnish stripper to strip the high gloss varnish from the bodu of a Telecaster type solid guitar. I used the product liberally and left if or longer than advised and after 25/30 minutes checked on the progress and nothing, but NOTHING/ZERO had happened. All the varnish was totally as new!!

Polycell Ripple Effect Textured Paint is NOT textured at all. It is just a smooth white paint. Absolutely outrageous to advertise it as textured!!! Very disappointed!

Don't bother buying it, you will only have the hassle of returning it!

Polycell Sealant for Bathrooms & Kitchens..... In three words " DOES NOT WORK "
OK after following instructions to the "T" this product failed to prevent water from my wall mounted shower from leaking under the bath.
Reason is this thick sealant does not fit into the grout between the tiles and also if the tile has a very slight pattern it is unable to apply a good adhesion .... it is just not flexible enough.
So therefor NOT SUITABLE for places where water is likely to cascade down your walls.
Product used Polycell Sealant for Bathrooms & Kitchens White 41mm x 3.35m and 1.5/8 x 1.1mm (Polycell say 1.5/8 x 11' approx. what ever that means??)
OH and yes I did use "POLYCELL Sealant Remover and allow to dry" and fill my bath (with me standing in it)

Polycell sealant strip what a waste of time and money,thoroughly cleaned surface was clean and dry started peel off next day ended up in the bin

Polycell Textured Ceilngs.
Expensive stuff at £27/ 2.5 litres and no matter what type of roller is used, the result is just a flat surface.
None of the “How to” videos work.
Just get regular ceiling paint.

Polycell Multipurpose polyfilla
In 45 years of using different wall crack fillers, this is the worst I’ve come across. Once mixed, it began going off (hardening) within minutes of application meaning I couldn’t use the whole mixed product as it would not spread! Do not buy!!

textured paint is rubbish. looks good when done but when it comes to being painted again the new paint lifts the textured paint off the wall in places, (plasterers say cant skim, the stuff is a nightmare because it would not stay on wall and the only thing to do is scrape it off and then have walls skimmed i am 69 and scraping off wall not my idear of fun but of course the firms get away with it they must realise the trouble it causes unsuspecting D I Y ers

Hopping mad regarding the misleading documentation and the very poor performance of the expensive Polycell Polyfilla 'Deep Gap' product.

We for the first time used some as shown in the picture on the tub to backfill around a new single gang size back box placed in a concrete block indoor wall. (~6-8mm gap fill in a few places, less over most)

The literature claims 'fills up to 20mm in one application', talks of it being 'surface dry in 1-2 hours' and goes on to talk of it's being drillable and accepting nails etc.

So much for the implied cure speed. It'd be naive to expect 20mm to fully cure in 1-2hrs in what turns out mostly to be an air drying product, but it's in practice so slow as to be utterly impracticable for use in many of the sorts of applications it purports to be formulated for.

The reality is that 24 hours later it has only skinned over where it's exposed to the air.

A test piece set up at the same time (an ~10mm layer of the product between a spare back box and a dry masonry block) seems not to have obviously started to cure at all - except by skinning over where it's exposed to air around the perimeter. The bulk remains mostly in it's original slurry consistency.

The result is that we have a choice. Dig it all out, find a way to remove the residue (not easy) and find a product that actually works in a reasonable time and do the job again - or place the living room off limits and come back in a week - by which time hopefully the Polycell product may have set.

Quite how the company expects to get away with the 20mm claim is beyond us. A quick look shows that Amazon and other reviews are littered with reports of others being mislead in exactly the same way by the wording in the product descriptions.

A quick dig just now brought up no proper technical data sheet, nor the usual cure time/mm thickness information. Wonder why??

We quite honestly would have expected better from an Akzo Nobel company...

PS It's 5 days since setting up the ~10mm test pieces and they still are not remotely hard. (the first is under the back box as above, a second set up at the same time is just spread on the surface of the masonry block which for the fastest possible drying is exposed to the atmosphere all around in a moderately heated workshop)

Breaking a piece away just now (easily done with a finger) the second remains mushy and damp once a few mm inwards past the outer skin which has formed.

We meanwhile chose to wait for the week for the product used to fill around/to seat the back box in the house to set.

Judging by the above it's not even a given that this will happen...