What did that guy pour into our paint?
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Anonymous
| My husband went to Home Depot to get some white paint to match our wall. He identified the brand and paint colour, but said that after consulting with the Home Depot rep, the rep pour "something"into the paint, which my husband then paid for and left. Now, the paint has a grey tint, that is an awful mismatch to our wall color. I asked DH what the guy poured into the pait, and he said he didn't know. What do you think happened? Will this grey tint change color to white after drying? |
Anonymous
| Primer? |
Anonymous
OP here - I forgot to add that this paint already comes with the primer (It's the Glidden Premium) so I don't think the guy needed to add more primer, unless he didn't know! |
Anonymous
| If your husband gave them a specific color or a swatch, they used a formula to get the color requested. It is color for paint. Primer is different. |
Anonymous
We actually had the paint code (GLN6411) and was only looking to get the paint identified with the same code, so we didn't show the rep a swatch or any color to match. It's pretty weird - even if he understood we wanted white, why he would add something to make it look grey. |
Anonymous
| Every paint you buy, unless you're just using the base white they sell on the shelf, has to be mixed. If you have a coded color, they have to add other tints to the base to make that color. Most whites aren't pure white (because that would be too stark) but have other undertones mixed in. Have you actually painted a spot with the new paint and let it dry? Often paint color appears different before it dries. |
Anonymous
| Normally people buy a little container of paint and put up a square on the wall for a few days before buying gallons of the stuff. It's important to see how the paint will look in different light... Also, paint often looks different on walls than they do on those paper tabs. Did you do this, OP? No one just buys paint and paints an entire wall without this first step. |
Anonymous
This, exactly. And if the color doesn't match your walls, either you had the wrong code, or their colors have changed. Neither of which is the fault of the HD paint staff. If you want to try again, use a utility knife to cut a small square from a mostly hidden area of your wall, and peel the drywall paper coating off. Take that to HD for color matching. You can either spackle over the whole square before repainting, or stick the square back down and spackle over the edges. |
Anonymous
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a) mix it well-get to the bottom of the can, simple shake isn't enough and put it on and let it dry. Fresh paint is always going to be a different tone than pain that has been on the wall awhile
or maybe it was some lead |
Anonymous
Answer to your last question is yes - wet paint in most cases will look darker. Let it dry first. Update? |
Anonymous
| Op here. Thanks for all the input. Yes, we are real amateurs in this. The paint was still a little off-color when it dried, but thank God we found an old can of paint which matched our wall, so we used that instead. |