Interior paints

[Stormin Mormon]

I'm glad that worked out, so well. As you were saying, you applied thick BM all over the inside of the house. How did you dry your BM? Did you have to use big fans, to dry your BM faster? What color BM did you use? Was it just the usual color like everyone else's? I'm glad the buyer liked having BM all over the walls. Did the buyer mention your beautiful colored BM, that was on so thick? Did you use all the BM, maybe going over some of the earlier BM, until the can of BM was empty? Or, did you put the lid on and leave the thick, unused BM for the next people to enjoy?

I'm going to remember, only BM when I paint my place. Thanks for the field report.

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My wife and I recently redid my mil's house for resale. We used Benjamin Moore Regal all the way. While thick applying, the results were terrific. We put the house on the market and 24 hours later we accepted a bid for 5% over our asking price.

I use big box paints at my home but from now on for anything serious I'm going to use BM.

[Stormin Mormon]

So, there's cheap BM, and moderate, and expensive? I'd guess the expensive BM goes on thicker, and looks better? As with most things. If you really want a good job, you need to pay more for your top of the line BM.

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If you've previously tried to just use a wall paint on ceiling, it's no wonder you're pleasantly surprised w/ a thicker paint. :)

There's a reason they make specific formulations for ceilings...

BM is pretty much like most all the rest--they have various quality levels to meet various price points and how well they work is mostly dependent on that price point.

[diy savant]

If you sell a house within 24 hrs of listing, you had it severely under-priced. You prolly cheated yourself out of $20,000 or more.

[krw]

Yep. I've been using BMoore for a couple of decades. It's well worth the extra money just in ease of application. It takes me a few hours to go through a gallon of paint. The extra $5 or $10 is cheap. Every time I try a different brand I kick myself (which I'll probably do again tomorrow - going to give the Behr self-priming a try in the garage).

[dpb]

Well, for interior water-cleanup only excluding ceiling, bath and kitchen, tint-base and floor-specific products there are 16 interior paint product listings for B-M. This doesn't include the myriad of finishes, etc., etc., within each product line.

So, yes, they have a full range of products to cover the market and price points. As with all manufacturers, just because it says a particular brand on the label doesn't mean a whole lot as far as what the contents are.

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[dpb]

On 6/9/2012 10:35 AM, [e-mail] wrote: ...

I'll reiterate the previous...it will mostly depend on using a similarly-targeted price point paint over the brand on the can.

If you go cheap Behr and try to claim that it's a bad paint and all Behr is bad in comparison to the B-M better levels it's just not a level-playing field.

Unfortunately, in such discussions as this, generally all that comes out is some knee-jerk reaction to a brand name without the qualification of which product in that line or comparison to another in another line.

I've even seen such indiscriminate mixing in Consumer Reports testing w/o their mentioning that not all of the tested paints were of the same general quality range/price.

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[krw]

Not in my experience. BM was *far* superior to everything I'd used before, at a similar price point.

...at the same price point.

I wouldn't bother with CR as parakeet cage lining.

[trader4]

It's obviously a statistical distribution situation. With houses listed at a fair price there is an average time it takes to sell and a distribution. A few of those will sell very fast, a few will take a long time. Just because someone happens to have one that sold in a day doesn't necessarily mean it's priced too low. It could be just the right buyer came buy the first day.

In many cases it's better to have the house fairly priced from the start, rather than start out high, follow the market down and never sell it. A local spec builder has been doing that for years. He prices his new houses too high, then after a year he lowers it 10%. He's been doing that for 4 or 5 years now. Problem is, he's always behind the market. Had he priced it

20% lower in the beginning, the house would have sold and he would have gotten more money than he's asking for it right now.

[trader4]

I've always used ceiling paint for ceilings. And if you look at Benjamin Moore Regal, I didn't see any difference in the thickness of their wall paint versus the ceiling paint. Both are thick, so thick I had to think them down slightly. No back spatter from either.

[krw]

Ceiling paint (at least some) has a slight tint that goes away when dry. It makes it easier to paint white-on-white. It also tends to be a starker white ("super white") than wall paint.