Reply #6: I know what you mean trud !

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

That shit for paint (sherwin williams ) It's like painting with water isn't it !

Latex paint has changed a great deal in the last 5-7 years and it keeps getting better. Self leveling the acrylic/enamel ,and other additives. And the paint is thicker-but not sherwin williams.

Some people swear by it-sherwin williams-in my opinion it is shit for paint.When I did a office building with that shit for paint some years back painting over a light tan with a darker color-I had to do two coats and had to have a couple of guys back rolling every square inch. Shit water paint it is.It flash's when you tough it up -just shit.

Again, I am not a painter .I don't mind paying more for paint to get it right or perfect the first time . Painting is usually the last thing I do at the end of a project,-and I don't like problems at that phase in it.No doubt they have made changes in the last 7-10 years, but I can't afford to trust it .!

Actually it was a interior designer that insisted sherwin williams was the way to go. She got fired. The paint on those walls was 20 years plus.

With a different paint or the paint I would have used-there would have been no reason to put a prime coat over the existing paint like the interior designer said I should have done.Or had they hired her contractors rather than me,it wouldn't have happened according to her.
I was so mad I offered to give the remainder of the project to her,but they decided to fire her on the spot. !

When you are the painter,you go with paint you know and have had good luck with.All paint suppliers will cut you deal when you are a contractor. But a deal isn't a deal if it cost you more is it?- everything said and done.

Again painting is not my specialty-it is just part of a project.