Best place to buy paint & brushes for front door Kyrenia/Esentepe?

Teamcharms



Joined: 26/06/2008
Posts: 126

Message Posted:
23/03/2010 18:22

We have been quoted £40 by our management company to do this and wondered how the prices compared in TRNC if we bought the stuff and did it ourselves. Cheers.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
23/03/2010 18:28

Not that expensive to buy paint here brushes really cheap but just watch out the fumes from the gloss paint are horrendous takes weeks to get rid of the smell.



Chris

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
23/03/2010 18:30

You could do it yourself for under a £10. Go to Marshalls and get a tin of paint and a brush.

Teamcharms



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Posts: 126

Message Posted:
23/03/2010 18:45

Cheers ta - where's Marshalls?

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
23/03/2010 22:29

Marshalls is on the right hand side coming from Girne on the main road to Karoglanoglou near where Unwin estates and the rest of the estate agents are.



Chris

littleme


Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 299

Message Posted:
23/03/2010 22:43

Marshalls is also in Karakum but I like coban on the main road in catalkoy as you head into town, fair price & very good advice. 100% on his English aswell.

Most people I know also use coban ie. professional decorators ect:, as for me well I use enough paint to cover the Island & only use coban very good people tell them Mary sent you.

Notsoboredhw


Joined: 15/03/2007
Posts: 1254

Message Posted:
23/03/2010 22:46

Margaret I think there is a Marshalls in Esentepe Village - drive past the supermarket and internet cafe on your left and then past the butchers and its on the left. x

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
23/03/2010 23:29

Marshalls is a paint manufacturers brand name, the shop in Karaoglanoglu is actually 'TAYF', all the shops displaying the Marshalls sign are differently owned businesses, therefore the prices will vary.



There is a Yapi market in Esentepe.. the nearest good one outside Esentepe is Coban Trading, which is about half way along the road to Karakum on the RHS.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
23/03/2010 23:31

There is also a new Yapi (DIY) market if you turn right at the bottom of the hill down from Esentepe village towards Bahceli and Tatlisu and go on for about half a mile or so not far past Alkan Holiday Village.

Teamcharms



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Posts: 126

Message Posted:
24/03/2010 00:53

Aha, we may go for the one near Bahceli then. Thanks for all your help

breezyboy


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Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
24/03/2010 11:24

The Yapi Market in Esentepe needs visiting if just for fun! It is like going back to the 50s, or even the two Ronnies hardware shop where you could buy fork handles!

They have everything- if you can find it! Nice guys as well.

Teamcharms



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Posts: 126

Message Posted:
28/03/2010 10:43

may take a look at that one too LOL

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
28/03/2010 12:40

By the time you've bought all the paraphernalia and got yourself blathered from head to foot in paint, I advise 'snapping the man's hand off' for a paltry £40.



If the workmen do come, just make sure that YOU have put the newspaper/dustsheet down, because most local painters/decorators seem neither to see, or care, about everthing else around getting paint, concrete, or whatever, spattered 'all over the shop'.



As for welders............I won't even go there!

kaysera


Joined: 14/07/2009
Posts: 103

Message Posted:
28/03/2010 19:13

The hardware shop in Esentepe is great, if he hasn't got what you want, I'm sure he will get it for you, and very reasonably priced.

Tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
28/03/2010 19:42

Is there a shop on the east side that sells hardwood external doors ?