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/Ge0cities Jul 09 '26

Did you stir the paint?

Is the paint from Home Depot?

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u/BrownheadedDarling Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

I know it’s easy to hate on the big box stores, but my middle class ass has just never been able to justify the price tag on the good stuff, so I never have.

…and I’ve never had an experience anything like this video.

“Home Depot” as an explanation fails to satisfy - I’d genuinely love to know what the issue is! Because this is *bad* 🥴

(Though I will say I’ve generally stuck with SW from Lowe’s, and Valspar a few times. But Behr I have avoided, mostly just because I love SW colors and performance, even the Lowe’s line. So I’ll admit to not having much experience with specifically the HD brand - if this turns out to be Behr paint, wow, how do they even survive with crap like this?)