How can you make your white paint products cover and hide surfaces even better? This short video from The Honest Carpenter and Oak City Coatings will show you a pro trick for making affordable white paints perform like top-quality brands!
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This Paint Trick Will Make CHEAP WHITE PAINT Cover + Hide As Well As The Most Expensive Brands!
There are a lot of white paint products on the market. Some are ready for use straight out of the can, and some need to be mixed with various tints and colorants.
To determine if a paint product needs to be mixed, just read the back or bottom of the label–there will often be a warning or notice. (“Base Paints,” for instance, always need to be mixed with tints.)
For exterior repaint projects, Nick trusts Sherwin Williams Duration line–especially their “Super White” product, which has excellent coverage and hide qualities.
However, Duration is very expensive…often $80+ per gallon!
So, how can you get your basic, cheaper white paint products to function like a top-grade white paint? The key is adding a little more tint to the mixture, and in the white color/volume combination…
Nick recommends this mixture:
2 oz. White Tint + 1/32 oz. Black Tint per 1 Gallon White Paint
This extra tint combination will make cheaper white paint cover and hide as well as more superior white paint products. The additional colorants increase opacity and tone in the paint formula, meaning you can often cut out extra coats!
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The Honest Carpenter
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Great tip. I do have a question though….what is the correct way of dealing with bubbles after paint has been applied? We had our house painted last year…shortly afterwards bubbles started appearing. Thanks.
theres no shop will help you in this way with out charging you lots of money whot world is he living in but very cleaver man good stuff all the same much to lean here thanks
Great hack there 👍
I painted the cheap wood paneling in our laundry room after 35 years. Painted it white. 3 coats, could still see the stains, 4 coats, no difference. I just started hitting the stained areas every hour. There must be 15 coats on those spots, and they just will not turn white, lol. It's crazy. The boards are like giant sponges, I get that, where the paint can be going, but why won't they change color?? Nuutz
Very good advice. Thanks.
Super white is not an ideal white for good coverage you might have good or Fair coverage with a high quality paint but super white is not one of the best covering whites. You need to do more research on what you're talking about there's a lot of things you're stating that is untrue.
At SW, I get most trim tinted to “Duron white” or “914 white” with black added, especially for cheaper rentals and stuff. The Emerald Urethane also comes pre mixed in a version of this called “Hi-Hide white” I think
Thank you!
Thanks for the info. Can you help with an old fashioned grey with no hues/ highlight of any other color. Just a plain light grey.
Basically saying useless things that can be read on the tin
I’ve been painting for over 30 years using all different brands of paint and Sherwin-Williams is not my favorite. I always go back to Benjamin Moore. Maybe I’m not using the right level paint but the Benjamin Moore always spreads better and covers better. But I will definitely try this truck and see
Thanks, not sure my hubby will bother, has his own home improvement techniques. Useful to a novice like me:0)
Thank you for this video.
My dad was a painting contractor his whole life and would only use sherwin Williams paints. The difference between SW and Home Depot or other bargain paint is unimaginable. It seems more expensive but it’s really not when you fast forward 4-5 years later and the SW job still looks great and the bargain paint job is already fading, cracking and peeling.
It is called Titanium Dioxide.
Lots of paint companions (not all of them) code it as XY on their color wheels.
I hate to disagree with their "Paint Expert", but shooting 3 or 4 drops of Lamp Black into a gallon of paint will do absolutely nothing to help coverage.
The reason we used to add Lamp Black to white paint had nothing to do with "coverage" It was done to create an illusion of extra white.. Many people thought it added "whiteness" to the paint. It was a common practice for artists. It is known as bluing.
I fear their paint expert is just way too young to have actually experienced this in the trades.
SW sucks
I always use white paint +B. for primer sometimes up to +3B. For white trim semi-gloss +B. Forget the "designer whites" not worth it and a white +B looks whiter!
Great tips… I never thought to add additional tint to help with coverage. Cheap paint costs as much as good paint… either pay up front and do the job right, or re-coat and/or re-paint it several times with the cheap stuff. In the end the task either costs you in money or time or both.
Great advice. Been there, done that several years ago – I bought a 100% acrylic latex exterior paint clearance priced for $3 per gallon to use as white. Got the same type of paint at clearance from Walmart & their system would not let them add just white so off to the hardware store to pay them to tint it. I still save a bundle.
Can you modify the ratio for 5 gallons of white?
I've always heard that SW was way better than Behr from experienced painters and multiple Youtube videos. However, I've personally experienced the opposite. I had a house fire. Prior to which, I painted most of the walls in my house myself. I was on a budget so I used Behr Premium Plus Ultra which is now called Scuff defense. After the fire, my contractor's pro painters used SW Superpaint on brand new dry wall. They did numerous coats and used better rollers. I hate the SW paint. It scuffs super easy. The white looks dull like drywall and all of my bathrooms have experienced surfactant leeching. I'm finding myself periodically re-painting my house room by room. It's frustrating and expensive.
SW sold me a can of Duration High reflective white and I didnt realize it was a base that needed some tint for coverage. Im honestly kind of pissed. According to everything ive read it takes like 4 coats. Thanks Sherwin for your awesome associates😵💫