Mixing Your Own Paint

HUDSONVALLEYEXT

does any one on here mix their own paint

Richard

heck yeah....paint paddle and a drill

sorry, couldn't resist...

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HUDSONVALLEYEXT

lol

ProWallGuy

Back in the day, I used to color match small batches to paper I was installing. When I ran out of tints, the prices to re-stock made me cry.
So no, I don't do any mixing on site. I let the paint store do that.
BUT, I hear this guy does:

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Exroadog

sometimes. oil base

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AAPaint

Yup...I mix my leftovers and put em on MY house, lol!

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Danahy

A year ago, I asked my paint store to show me how they do the tinting. (to create my own express line, when they are busy) If nothing else it gave me a better understanding of how to tweak my colours when needed.

Brushslingers

I have before.. why?

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dougchips

I use to mix it 15 years ago when I worked at a retail store. If I took up painting, I would invest in one of the old dispensers and mix it myself before I would let someone at a homecenter do it. At the time, I quart of the tint cost us $7.00 and we would sell them to painters for $25+.

Terrence

I sometimes tint primer... does that count?

Did you know that grey primer will make your deep colors come out more intense and accurate with better coverage?

Patrick

From a retail point of view i can tell you its a nightmare when a customer would bring us a can of one of our bases that a painter f'd with and expect us to duplicate it. BTW last i looked black tint was up over $100/gallon

Exroadog

Just bought a quart of black tint from BM for under $10 !? If you buy tints like Mixol it might cost $100. Also get them from CA. Paints but they are $15 a quart.

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AFI

Mix all leftover and used for charity or giveaway

steve-in-kville

Done this many times. I've mixed three different brands of "linen white" together and painted a few bedrooms. No one will ever know the difference.

steve

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HUDSONVALLEYEXT

We spend to much time at the paint store sometimes with takes us 45 mins to get there and half an hour to get the paint. Looking to cut costs I was thinking we could make our own paint at our shop...

HUDSONVALLEYEXT

now that I think about a paint store down street from me just went out of business they might have old equitment forsale

Terrence

"From a retail point of view i can tell you its a nightmare when a customer would bring us a can of one of our bases that a painter f'd with and expect us to duplicate it."

But Patrick you are in windows and siding... Did I miss something?

Also, I can take any color and have it scanned and duplicated in paint. It could even be a color in a scarf (a request from a client...).

If a customer brings you a can of base that's been tinted, just make a swatch, blow dry, scan, and let the computer do the work, NO?

metomeya

Ya.......what most people don't know is that color missing isn't a perfect science......in other words there are like 3 or 4 conflicting theories on how to mix color, no perfect formula to program.....thus a computer can't do all the work.

But for the most part computer are very accurate, for the most of the time, 50-60%, they are close enough so that the customer/painter doesn't notice or doesn't care, about 30% the mixer has to eyeballed to correct it and mix it one more time. About less than 10% of the time comes a color (certain tans, vivid reds, oranges, etc.) that the computer doesn't even come close, and most experienced mixers have a hard time doing it

The problem is now a days, the "experienced mixer" doesn't existed cause the computer does all the work now, so you can have joe retard, or a high school kid doing color matches.

747

When i hired a oldtimer who paints and papers to wallpaper my dining room. He mixed some paint from scratch to paint the copper base board ducts in that room to match the wallpaper. He was actually pouring different colors and stiring to get the color he wanted. He smoked a pipe when he worked.

Patrick

Yea windows and siding NOW... 5 years of retail hardware durring high school and college. I take offense to people saying that young people cant be good paint mixers. I used to get so pissed at people comming in and only wanting to deal with the old timers who half the time couldnt even read the numbers on the metering sticks and would mix the wrong colors. If you actually applied yourself it was quite easy to figure out what to add do adjust most colors. The worst were the F'n women who would come in and insistthat you could change gallon green paint to pink or some other crazy thing. The best was when they would telll you what colors they thought you should addd these days the only fights i get into are with rolls of coil stock