Paint matching - Home Depot / Lowes or paint store ?

[Mogie]

I've never had a problem with Home Depot or even Walmart matching paint. I have had more experience with Walmart and highly recommend them and their paint.

[Zemedelec]

Yes, I got a "perfect" match from HD for a yellow wall that wasn't. I used most of it in the washer/dryer niche where it was intended, which is separated from the wall by a beige hall, so it looks OK, but on the wall from which I took the sample it looks much darker and muddier.

zemedelec

[ChiliJim]

Well I took a sample to Home Depot to match and the guy did his little computer thing, mixed the paint and tested it on a sample. It was sighly off, HE recognized it immediately and said "wait, that's not right!". He then added a dab of some kind of tint, mixed it, and it came out perfect. I was impressed (this was a young kid), and asked him how long it took to learn to do this, to which he replied "oh it took me a couple of weeks to get the hang of it, but now I can match any paint sample you can give me." He also printed out the mixture on a label attached to the can in case I ever needed more.

The paint was for extensive touch up, as I was selling the house and didn't want to get into a complete repaint job (thirty foot ceilings). I used it and you can't tell where it was touched up.

Seeing is believing. Selling paint is not rocket science. These people with many years of experience actually have a years experience repeated many times over. Give me a "big box" store anytime rather than pay the inflated prices of the small stores like Sherwin Williams.

Jim

[Michael Daly]

How do they determine that it's perfect?

I watched the HD employee do it - they did nothing but put the chip in the sampler and the pigmented paint can in the mixer. I painted and couldn't see any difference. This in a room with bright sunlight. There are questionable brands at HD, but there are some good ones as well.

I realize that it's fashionable to dump on HD and others, but there are _few_ paint stores that are better. I live in a city of several million and there is _one_ paint store with an excellent reputation. Meanwhile, HD sells paint to me without me travelling halfway across town, struggling to find parking and paying a higher price. YMMV

Mike

[Brillo]

replying to Truitt Bottsford III, Brillo wrote: About 80% of the times i need to get some seemingly common part, if i go to HD, they more often than not have a whole lot of everything, except for the one piece i need. True value/ ace and other real hardwares stores usually have it. HD ends up being a waste of time. I'd have quit them for good long sgo, but they're right around the corner.

[fairminded]

what a dick m Ransley is. Who takes such a tone in a discussion about paint? Seriously. It is a nice thread and he gets all puffy 'woo hoo that you purchased over $300k in paint' you are dumb. I bought the same amount of paint at HD for $150k. Arrogant.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Yes, we kicked his ass out of here 17 years ago for just that

[FXtrader]

finally, someone that understands what computer color match does. comes out perfect every time. guess HD does not have.