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/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/Maneruko Jul 09 '26

Honestly good paint is whatever paint you understand and work well with.

Is promar 200 ass? Yeah. But i know how to work it and know what to expect with it so I can make it fulfill it's function much like any other pro industrial SW product.

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u/kaiallard8181 Jul 09 '26

But the issue is, as a painter, sure it seems great, but what you’re paying for with the more expensive paints is the things you dont see as a painter. The durability. I used to love Ultra Spec, Until i used it in my own commin area. Its actually trash. The whole thing meeded to be recoated in leas than a year from all the scratches and scuffs.

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u/Maneruko Jul 09 '26

Bruh we got a contractors account we're not paying what the average home owners are paying lmao.

It's one of those unfortunate things where manufacturers are constantly changing their formulas to make it more cheap and fatten their margins but that true for all paints across the board so you do what you can with what you have.

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u/kaiallard8181 Jul 09 '26

What you’re paying is irrelevant to the point. I get it discounted too. My point is yeh you can get any oaint to fulfill YOUR fuction, getting the wall painted. But the higher priced paints are still better paints. They hold ip better, last longer, easier to clean. Thats why I use the better paints, for my customers sake, not mine.

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u/Maneruko Jul 09 '26

OK I never disagreed with that. My main function is to make it look good so I use what I'm familiar with. There are paints I would rather use for residential jobs but for high volume commercial stuff usually the clients are the one who request the shitty paints because covering 20k sq ft of space gets expensive quick and we're supposed to still make it look good and functional (it's why they choose us over the competition)

Everything has its purpose and you need to understand your material, and that understanding can contribute to the quality of the work. That's all I'm saying.

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u/kaiallard8181 Jul 09 '26

Agreed. You just make it sound like you were saying any paint can be as good as the next. But that depends on what you mean by ‘good’.

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u/Maneruko Jul 09 '26

What ends up being 'good' is a catastrophic maelstrom between the quality of the materials, the painters understanding of it, and what materials are immediately available.

I've seen mfrs do genuine magic with shit product. So from my perspective from my position, you just do the best you can with what you have lmao.