Comments on: Home Depot Paint Secrets

By: Pal

Pal — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:38:44 +0000

Kate, the colorants or tints used the the paints are all the same whether used in Behr, Glidden, ICI, Sherwin Williams, etc. The thing that changes is the base paints that the different companies use.

By: TMN

TMN — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:10:32 +0000

My husband and I have painted many houses in our Military Career as Officer and a Wife and i will love the most expensive item on a rack with out even touching or looking at a tag. Quality and comfort is my name. We have lived in the high dessert and the Low beach.
Behr is our favorite. Les Coats, Most coverage, Easy to Clean. Everything depends on the base you are painting and the type of Behr paint you use. There are different paints in every Brand. Behr is the Best. I would let your contractors use Behr. Also a color chip will Fade Make sure to bring in a new one and the scanner only pikes up the darkest color of a fabric. Have fun with your project.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:40:04 +0000

Excellent response Jade. You nailed this guy right on! I don’t think I would have been quite so generous in dealing with Mr.Million $ to my name.
If he manages to buy and use products without paying for them, it is no wonder he has at least 1 million dollars!

By: Jade

Jade — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:50:51 +0000

You brought back an empty can and expected your money back? They gave it back because they didn’t want you to make a scene,not because they were in the wrong. You sound like an entitled brat. They gave you your way after you used their product up and you still insult them.

By: robin

robin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:31:19 +0000

Have you tried that new Frog tape? It’s at Walmart and seems to come off cleanly just like it states it does.

By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:15:58 +0000

i bought the 2 in 1 behr and the 2 in one part isn’t so good. i sanded, then painted a test area, after 4 weeks (latex curing time) it still scratches off under my nail. this is on wood paneling.
it works fine for my wallpaper paneling, but i bought a 5 gallon bucket to do several rooms and will have to now buy additional primer (for which case i would have bought a cheaper paint if i have to use a primer too). live and learn i guess

By: kate

kate — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:36:07 +0000

I’m a bit confused – does this mean if I take some Glidden base paint off the shelf and select a Glidden paint chip in a specific color, HD is just going to mix a similar-looking Behr tint into the Glidden base?

By: anon

anon — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:37:33 +0000

sounds like you put a latex over a oil

By: anon

anon — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:22:04 +0000

thank you for this banter, ive been reading all the comments on behr and i have to say ive worked at SW and BM and get disater story after disater story, mostly due to lack of knowledge. And to Pat we do have to graduate from a very long training program before we are allowed to sell paint, there are many reasons why it could have been recommended that you not use your color choice, just saying.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:11:26 +0000

you find the SQ FT= perimeter x ceiling height, gallon in pastel base does about 350-400 sq ft, less for darker color

By: Chuck j

Chuck j — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:46:05 +0000

99 percent of paint problems lie in the prep and surface conditions and of course the skill of the applicator. Paint is manufactured under strict
quality controls and tested by lab techs. Problem is most people that DIY dont know there a$$ from a hole in the ground.

By: Chuck j

Chuck j — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:51:35 +0000

Sheen is not a product of the amount of resin but a result of how fine the raw material in the paint is ground prior to manufacture.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:28:07 +0000

I just got done painting and washing up using Behr on a new closet.
I hate behr paint, the scent is nasty, it smells like foul feet, I’ll never use it again.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:27:25 +0000

I just got done painting and washing up using Behr on a new closet.
I hate behr paint, the scent is nasty, it smells like foul feet, I’ll never us it again.

By: Homer

Homer — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:25:56 +0000

Thermopyle has been around the block a few times…heed Thermopyle.

To dumb Thermopyle down to the easiest understandable analogy, consider a Xerox, of a Xerox, of a Xerox, etc. That first copy is so close that one cannot really see the difference, even with the original to compare it to. You don’t need the original to see that the tenth generation sucks.

Spectrophotometry is an approximation…a facsimily.

BTW, we are all “stoopid,” and our brains “protect” us from such things as absolutes. Spectrophotometers have “eyes” that are not connected to “brains” which worry about whether or not we’ll be reduced to a whimpering, half-representation of human, just because the blue came off just over the grey side, rather than the brown side.