Getting the same colour paint as before.

amandstu

How get I get an exact match for the paint I already have on the wall? (it is to repair a section of the paitwork that has deteriorated)

When I thumb my way through the colour catalogue I cannot find the exact one.

I have a plan which is to get as close as I can and then to buy an extra few small cans to mix in to make up the final difference.

Is that going to work and is it the only way of doing it ?

If that is how to do it should I get 3 small cans one red,green and blue to add to the paint?
Or should I be getting extra tins of black and white?

thanks.

michael999999

amandstu wrote: »

How get I get an exact match for the paint I already have on the wall? (it is to repair a section of the paitwork that has deteriorated)

When I thumb my way through the colour catalogues I cannot find the exact one.

I have a plan which is to get as close as I can and then to buy an extra few small cans to mix in to make up the final difference.

Is that going to work and is it the only way of doing it ?

If that is how to do it should I get 3 small cans one red,green and blue to add to the paint?
Or should I be getting extra tins of black and white?

thanks.

Forget about that idea, you will not match the paint by mixing it yourself. The paint dye will cost you more than it will to just bye a bucket of pre mixed paint from a shop.

Even if you had some of the old paint left, touch ups on walls never work if the wall has been painted for more than a few weeks!

Cerco

Take a small chip of the existing paint and bring to any decent paint shop and they will make up the colour there and then.

amandstu

thanks I'll try that then .I have already tried that road but perhaps the outlets (one was B&Q) I asked weren't really geared up to it.

I will look for a more dedicated kind of a place.

shockwave

Even if you get the exact paint colour the touch up will look really obvious and wont blend in, you will have to repaint the whole wall.