I don't get it...

[MnM]

Not so relevant in TRNC but I can't even go online in the UK and buy Cuprinol Garden Shades other than in £100+ of 1 litre tins because for some reason Cuprinol and their distributers have suspended sales of anything bigger and those that haven't don't have any stocks of anything anyway, but i can walk up Gravesend High Street and buy 2 Goose Eggs for my salad tonight.

[Dalartokat]

If you had taken the one step further and looked at the reason why by googling, you would see it it’s due to high demand. In red at the top of the website.

As with all DIY in U.K. everything has been in high demand and Gardening products, however our local Supermarkets are gradually getting a lot more stock in for their gardening sections.

https://www.cuprinol.co.uk/products/garden_shades.jsp

[PoshinDevon]

If you search on line or use Amazon for any indoor or outdoor paint/wood preservative you will see that in the mai they are unavailable. Whenever small amounts of stock are available they tend to be very expensive.

In addition any on line gardening sites are also sold out of stock.

There’s a lot of DIY and gardening being done here in the U.K.

[jofra]

Check online at Screwfix and Toolstation; both stock Cuprinol Garden Shades, and both are operating a click and collect service while the current palaver is on. You can select stores local to yourself to see whether they have some in stock. I had to get something else (emergency) and was able to use both stores' c&c service.

[MnM]

Cheers peeps, my OP was just to highlight or rather compare a difficulty in one area to simplicity in another. Obviously painting a shed is not an essential thing to do but we have to look for things to do to break the boredom and utilise the time we have. I had already spoken to Cuprinol earlier in the week and was aware of the delivery delays. Suspending sales of tester pots i can understand, however it doesn't make sense suspending sales of larger than 1 litre tins and even Cuprinol could not explain why. I did manage to get a 25 litre tub of Sandtex Magnolia and one in Plymouth Grey from Toolstation, but had to get the masonry brushes from Screwfix. Unfortunately neither do the Cuprinol Garden Shades in Crushed Chilli that i'm after.