The primer was Zinnser FastPrime 2 from Menards which is supposed to work
over or under latex paint on drywall, etc. The paint was called Pittsburg
Distinction with lifetime warranty from Menards. I could not find any info
about it on Pittsburg Paints website so it must be a store brand. My wife
went to Benjamin Moore paint dealer and they said they rarely have
complaints about Pittsburg paint. Maybe my wife did not mix the primer
enough? I had a hard time mixing the paint and spent over ten minutes
stirring it like a crazy man [could not find my drill stirrer]. So I am not
exactly sure what happened but I was able to clean up the paint drips or
"mini paint sildes" failry well and the Benjamin Moore primer went on like a
dream completely covering the old mess and leaving a dark pink color. They
said to expect to use at least three coats of paint over the primer for that
red color. Hopefully things will go smooth from here. --- Steve


"No" wrote in message
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Its probably too late now but Pittsburgh Paint has two lines. Manor hall
is their premium paint and in my experience is equivalent with Benjamin
Moore. I use only those two, exclusively. Red is a hard color to begin
with. A tinted, compatible primer should have been used. It sounds like
something was amis. with either the primer or the mix of the top coat. Are
you sure it was thoroughly stirred? Are you sure the primer was
compatible? Was this just a store brand paint made by Pitt?
"Steven L Umbach" wrote in message
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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