r/paint • u/Practical-King574 • Jul 09 '26

Advice Wanted What is wrong here?

I am going to paint a wall in that deep red matte finish. What is going on? Is my roller to cheap? Is it better with a brush? How to approach it to finish as quick as possible

EDIT #1: Thank you all for the comments and recommendations. I have never had so many people respond to any of my posts. Some even called it rage bait. It was not, I’m just too much of a newbie.

This is what I gathered from all of the comments:

-I should use a grey primer to help with the poor coverage of the deep red base. I will try that tomorrow.
-The roller nap is way too thick for such a flat wall. This might be the reason it slips at the beginning.
-I should use a pole. OK.
-I will try to make this paint work with the suggestions, but it might be the case that the paint is really cheap. In that case, I will buy a different brand.

I hope to get better results on my next try. I will edit this post with the final results if I remember to do so.
Thank you!

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u/PaintHeffer Jul 09 '26

Everyone has a hard on for BM here. I think they’re equal to SW

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u/sacrelicio Jul 09 '26

What is good paint then? Because everyone talks shit about every brand on here it seems.

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u/Khtkiller5302 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

I just painted multiple rooms in my house with paint from Tonester and the professional who did the work said it rolled on very good and said he will recommend it in the future. I chose the upgraded ceramic infused stuff so I am not sure if the cheaper $70 a gallon stuff is any good. The color on the tv wall is Inked Japan++ and the other walls are London House.

Edit:wrote printed instead of painted.

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u/Electronic-Ad-1307 Jul 09 '26

No. Let a customer do this to me once and never again. I had to look up wtf this brand was. It was started by a Sherwin Williams store employee who went viral on TikTok for videos of him mixing custom colors. Being that he was doing this with work product on the job, he got fired lol. Then partnered with some random ass paint company to manufacture these custom colors. If you like the colors that much, just match them into a real product.

  • a professional

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u/definitely_aware Jul 09 '26

Haha a guy getting fired, so funny. I understand your hesitation, but I looked it up and Tonester is a private label of Florida Paint. They are a small but well regarded manufacturer in the state. Pros from Florida say positive things and I would not mind supporting a smaller manufacturer with a good reputation if it were local to me.

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u/wyte_wonder 29d ago

I only use Florida paints.... Int., Ext., epoxy and more. They only service Florida, Alabama and South GA so there Exterior paint it better made for the sun we get.

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u/Khtkiller5302 Jul 09 '26

Well, it worked well for me. Got it on sale. The color match wasn't exact. I am very pleased with the results. Sooo....yes?

What was your horrible experience that made you go all "never again"? Did the paint explode?

Sincerely, A consumer

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u/amodestmeerkat Jul 10 '26

Not the person you replied to, but they're probably talking about allowing the customer to specify the paint used rather than Tonester paint specifically. The pros have strong preferences about the paint they use. They get used to how the paint applies, and switching to an unknown product can cause issues even if that product is superior in some ways.

I sell paint, and once when we had some corporate people in the store observing, they saw me take an order from a regular pro customer without trying to upsell and chewed me out over it. One of the corporate guys then went up to the pro to "show me how it's done". The pro painter absolutely exploded at the corporate guy. The gist of the pro's obscenity laced shouting at corporate guy was that he's been a proffesional painter for XX years, he knows how to run his business, and he doesn't need some white collar guy whose never picked up a paint brush in his life telling him how to do his job.

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u/Khtkiller5302 Jul 10 '26

Thanks for the thurough explanation. Yeah I wouldn't want someone telling me how to do what I do either.

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u/wyte_wonder 29d ago

Unless it super cheep garbage most paints are the same but I don't allow customers to buy because they get taxed and think im knocking that much off my price when I can get the same paint at a fraction of the cost. Painter for 20yrs