On Sun 21 Aug 2005 10:30:27p, Steven L Umbach wrote in alt.home.repair:
Much to my objections my wife and daughter thought it would be cool to
paint one of her bedroom walls deep dark red. Before I knew what was
going on she went to the HI store and bought some Pittsburg Paint that
was apparently branded just for them because Pittsburg Paint does not
show it on their website but the "guy" told her it was their best stuff
they carried at the store and my believes anyone but me. My wife also
bought some white primer and rolled it on the wall before deciding that
I should finish the job.
Just to start off I want to say that I have done a LOT of interior
painting in the past and never had a problem and never had to put on
more then two coats of anything but our colors were all in the neutral
color range.
Well I started to roll this stuff on and it was like painting waxed
paper. I got done and it looked like crap with some places locking light
and others dark but their was nothing more I could do until it dried and
applied another coat. I came back a while later and much to my horror
there were more than a few places where this stuff ran and globbed down
and in spots. Now it looks really bad. I have never seen anything like
that before and when I roll paint I don't glob it on but put on a
consistent medium coat and closely examine my job as I go along in the
light at an angle to look for problem areas like too heavy application
so I can smooth it out. Interestingly she bought the same exact paint
brand in a medium brown color and it went on fine?? Another thing about
the red stuff is that it took me forever to stir and shake to get it to
be one color.
Has anyone else experienced anything like that. Do you think the paint
may have been defective or that when they mixed it at the store they did
something wrong such as using wrong materials or wrong quantities?? At
this point I am going to go and get some Benjamin Moore or Pratt and
Lambert in a close color, in a non custom color if possible and paint
until the color looks consistent at least. I don't know what to do about
the paint that ran and dried. Maybe I should try to get it off with goof
off and a scraper or would that make matters worse? Any other
suggestions are highly appreciated.
I have told her 100 times to buy Benjamin Moore paint but I guess that
is too inconvenient for her. She always gets what the "guy" tells her is
best at whatever store she is buying the paint at. Last time she got
Behr at HD and I showed her how drippy it was and then she says well it
was their best paint. By now you are probably saying why don't you go
get the paint your self stupid ass. I would but my wife spends dozens
and dozens of hours shopping for paint and can't make up her mind and
then asks me what I like but then does not like what I pick out so I
avoid the whole shopping end of buying paint and just do the production
part. Anyhow the good news is I think she is finally going to listen to
me about what brand paint to buy and where to get it at. --- Steve
Either make your wife do it, or hire a painter and forget about it.
--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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