Hard to paint colour

Dig all

Hello everyone, I'm painting the hallway and it's currently magnolia, painting a grey colour now over it , called frosted silver, blue grey shade colour, johnstones paint , I'm finding it unbelievable hard to get it to spread even, the walls are good, only 10 years old , it's soft sheen. Just can't understand why it's so hard to paint , only done kitchen 2 weeks ago, dulux pale primrose and no problem, any information appreciated.

wait4me

A second coat will probably be needed.

listermint

Johnstones may not be the same quality as the Dulux.

dodzy

Dig all wrote: »

Hello everyone, I'm painting the hallway and it's currently magnolia, painting a grey colour now over it , called frosted silver, blue grey shade colour, johnstones paint , I'm finding it unbelievable hard to get it to spread even, the walls are good, only 10 years old , it's soft sheen. Just can't understand why it's so hard to paint , only done kitchen 2 weeks ago, dulux pale primrose and no problem, any information appreciated.

Johnstones.....there’s your problem right there.

irelandspurs

dodzy wrote: »

Johnstones.....there’s your problem right there.

Depends if it's retail johnstones or trade. The trade has good opacity

dodzy

irelandspurs wrote: »

Depends if it's retail johnstones or trade. The trade has good opacity

Like every other paint query on here. If everybody just bought colourtrend, there’d be no issues.

scarepanda

I used Johnson's last summer although it was a dark grey colour I was using. It definitely needed 3 coats before it came up properly (it was over a lilac colour).

Lumen

If it takes several coats, wouldn't it be cheaper and better to use primer with one coat?

dodzy

Any decent paint should be capable of covering mag in 2 coats. If you need more, then the paint is crap.

cletus

Probably a left of field question, but it's not metallic paint, by any chance? I've only used metallic paint once, but I found it to be a complete pain in the hole

whizbang

A few years of greasy fingerprints will challenge even the best paints.
Hallways most of all.

I had an old relation of mine, used furniture polish on the walls.

whizbang

whizbang wrote: »

A few years of greasy fingerprints will challenge even the best paints.
Hallways most of all.

I had an old relation of mine, used furniture polish on the walls.

I think some furniture polishes have (or at least had) silicone in them .