Just make sure you double check....

[Oz]

Most of my basement is finished, need to paint the trim and get the carpet installed, along with touch-up painting and a few odd and ends.

Yesterday I get my HVLP sprayer working to paint the flush mount speakers and grilles, along with the electrical panel cover. I see the paint that I used on the walls and get ready to paint. After masking off for the speakers and stuff, I start shooting the grilles, speaker enclosures and then finish off the electrical cover. A couple of hours go by and I notice a different color / sheen on the items I just sprayed.

I wonder WTF, and start looking to see what I did wrong. I grab the can of paint and see the sheen is not the same. The walls are a flat sheen, and the can I used was an eggshell. I found out the wifey grabbed another can for some other stuff - and she wanted eggshell. FUCK. Now I need to redo that shit again.

Lesson: Check your paint label before painting!

:fail:

[Quads]

Pin it on the Wifey.
You did your yob.

[Doctor_XXX]

We had our current house sprayed throughout, with a basic/clean high quality off-white paint. Every room, every ceiling, every wall, every door, etc. We just wanted a clean, fresh, easy "base", so we could play with color in different rooms as the years went by and we made the place more of our own. Of course, the painters used like four different sheens (flat, eggshell, semi-gloss, gloss) some latex, some oil-based, etc. It all LOOKS good, cleans up great, and met our needs as a quick fix prior to moving in, but...touchups are (were) a BITCH! I've finally got all of the cans labeled with "where" they are to be used, after 3 or 4 times guessing the wrong way, and having to redo it.

Double checking is the ONLY way to go! :rolleyes:

[Oz]

We had our current house sprayed throughout, with a basic/clean high quality off-white paint. Every room, every ceiling, every wall, every door, etc. We just wanted a clean, fresh, easy "base", so we could play with color in different rooms as the years went by and we made the place more of our own. Of course, the painters used like four different sheens (flat, eggshell, semi-gloss, gloss) some latex, some oil-based, etc. It all LOOKS good, cleans up great, and met our needs as a quick fix prior to moving in, but...touchups are (were) a BITCH! I've finally got all of the cans labeled with "where" they are to be used, after 3 or 4 times guessing the wrong way, and having to redo it.

Double checking is the ONLY way to go! :rolleyes:


About 3 years ago I painted a house for a couple who picked out a certain color that appealed to the wife. At the store it looked good, but it was with different lighting - and once she stepped into the house she hated it. It looked to rose/pinkish, and she wanted something about 1/3rd of the color closer to white. The husband asked if I could add 1 can white to the mix and see what that looked like. In the end the forumula was 1.5 cans white to 1 can of the color. When it came time for touch-up - I had to reroll a bunch of walls since I couldn't match the same color!

[IslandHopper]

When I was in high school I worked for a guy who was building his own house. He wanted to paint his entire lower floor and up the staircase a light brown. He goes to the paint store and comes back with a couple 5 gallon cans of white paint with a quart of brown pre-mixed into each. I proceed to roll out the 1st floor and the staircase. With all the cutting/trim work it took the better part of a day.

I had just finished and we were both standing there admiring the look when the sheetrocker came by to collect his check. He gets two steps in the door, looks around and asks."Ross, why are your walls pink?" Ross says, "They're not. They're brown." Sheetrocker wanders over to one of the now empty paint cans, reads the label on the lid and says,"White and red don't make brown. They make pink." The guy at the paint store had mixed red in by mistake, and Ross and I are both color-blind.

I tell him I'll grab some more paint on the way home and come back tomorrow, and his response was "Fuck it. It's my house, and it looks light brown to me."

[Joe Bass]

When I was in high school I worked for a guy who was building his own house. He wanted to paint his entire lower floor and up the staircase a light brown. He goes to the paint store and comes back with a couple 5 gallon cans of white paint with a quart of brown pre-mixed into each. I proceed to roll out the 1st floor and the staircase. With all the cutting/trim work it took the better part of a day.

I had just finished and we were both standing there admiring the look when the sheetrocker came by to collect his check. He gets two steps in the door, looks around and asks."Ross, why are your walls pink?" Ross says, "They're not. They're brown." Sheetrocker wanders over to one of the now empty paint cans, reads the label on the lid and says,"White and red don't make brown. They make pink." The guy at the paint store had mixed red in by mistake, and Ross and I are both color-blind.

I tell him I'll grab some more paint on the way home and come back tomorrow, and his response was "Fuck it. It's my house, and it looks light brown to me."

Great story Hopper; love the attitude of the boss.