r/paint

I live in a building owned by a slumlord and without pulling permits the Landlord hired under the counter workers to come paint the building which is 25 feet high with this extremely bright white paint

so

now you cannot even look at the building without your eyes watering. He did this to hide the severe structural decay and the foundation cracks going up the brick and mason rebuilding. The building has a stucco finish that has been breaking and falling off into the street because of extreme water damage.

Are these paints allowed to be used on large buildings in a metro area or can I report him not just for painting without a permit but for painting a color that is so bright it creates a real hazard for the drivers on the busy street?

Also are you allowed to just throw the paint buckets into a regular dumpster?

I can see part of the name and it ends in “GGIA”

Any recommendations on how to clean this paint mixer? My dad has always offered it up for me and I finally took him up on his offer. I do want to ensure it is clean before mixing my paint but more than anything just want to clean it up for him. He’s the type to keep things until the end of time😆

Edit: I’m mostly annoyed at the patchiness of the color. I don’t mind the visible brush strokes (all the doors and trim in the house have this at a lesser level).

I put on two coats of Zinsser 1-2-3 primer, and two coats of Clark and Kensington Premium Interior (from Ace Hardware) on an unfinished Hampton Bay (Home Depot) upper wall cabinet to put above the toilet.

I didn’t need anything fancy and I wanted a low-stakes situation to try painting. But… I wasn’t expecting the results to be this bad! Why am I getting all that streaking/patchiness? The top coat is a couple of years old, but it didn’t smell and I used a drill attachment to stir thoroughly before using.

Should this area be caulked or left alone? Any tips for caulking and painting to avoid touching up cabinets besides using tape?

We are painting our cabinets.. we are not able to stain them!

first pic shows what cabinets currently look like. Following pictures are what I’d like to achieve. We are using painter contracted to use Sherwin Williams. Anyone have any insight?? Thanks

I have 2 of these brick light things in my front yard with these concrete toppers (not sure the correct name). I paint them white and they start peeling, several times over the years now. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I’m guessing strip all the paint? But how? Then prime and paint? Or can I just get new toppers somewhere and start over? Thanks for any advice.

There are some stains on my wall (newly painted about 4 months ago) and I touched it up with roller brush using the same paint the contractor left behind.

It has been 30 hours since and it still looks wet. I am in perth and the temperature these few days range between 10 to 18deg outside and a bit rainy.
Is this normal? Do I have to worry?

So we are looking to purchase this cypress log house. It has been painted before. Not sure with what type of paint. Would it be better to just seal it or paint and if so with what?

From what I’ve read, this effect (the colours not matching) can be caused by light exposure, poor paint mixing, or even batch differences

The streaks are brand new paint applied to ‘touch up’ the original paint job. The paint used is new (not from the original can)

Can this be saved or will my mom have to repaint all the walls?

Hi I messed up big time. I needed to touch up my wall yesterday but saw the word “whisper white” on my paint cans and just used it without giving it much thought thinking all whisper white are the same. I used the can saying indoor skirting (in the picture) on my wall instead of the ecotint whisper white (the other one in the picture) . I assumed this is what cauzed the shiny spots on my wall? It has been 30 hours since. Is it ok if i used use the correct “wall” whisper white to paint over now? Will it look ok? Thanks very much.

Hello friends. I’ve been asked to remove these mirror shapes, repair the wall, and re-paint it. I have a couple of questions:

1. Does anyone know how to remove these stuck-on mirrors without damaging or minimally damaging the wall?
2. If you look closely you can see in the photo below the mirrors where they already removed some and caused some damage. The damage left is not deep. Is spackling sufficient, or should I treat these as a normal drywall repair using hot mud and a finish coat of mud before priming and painting?

Thanks everyone!

I was finally getting stuff done. Patched up some spots, got the ceiling ready to repaint. I painted using the same paint that’s on the ceiling before and everything was going great. I noticed a little bit of peeling in the new layer of paint so I just it dry and was going to just scrape that area, skim it, primer, and repaint. I started scraping that area and it just kept going. Pretty much the entire ceiling was peeling off in sheets. It wasn’t just the new layer of paint but the layer below that too. Under it all is drywall in pretty decent shape and it looks painted. I’m thinking it’s an oil based paint and the previous owner painted over it with latex…

I have enough going on with settlement on the new house in a couple weeks, packing, and fixing other minor things that I just don’t have the bandwidth to skim this ceiling so I think I’m going to hire it out. I have a painting company owned by my neighbor coming to give a quote on Monday.

What’s the point of my post? Just venting tbh, I’m so annoyed. I was even worse yesterday but I’ve calmed down a bit :)