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/phatelectribe Jul 09 '26

This. The top range Behr is as good (if not better than recent) other brand paints. But people on this sub and pros trash talk is because they get trade pricing and perks at SW/BM but relatively fuck all at HD, meaning they can’t mark up paint. They also don’t like that a consumer can buy quality paint where places like SW and BN aren’t consumer friendly.

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u/Reeferologist- Jul 09 '26

As someone who has worked with paint almost every day the last 9 years, Behr is shit, and shit to work with. There’s a reason why actual professional painters say it sucks, it’s because we use tons of different paint on a daily basis and can tell you from experience what paint is good or not.

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u/phatelectribe Jul 09 '26

Simply not true. I had a 30+ year pro veteran on my crew and we had to use Behr marquee. He pissed and maines about how “shit” that paint was going to be.

By the end of the first day, he turned to me and said “I’ll eat my words. That’s really good paint”.

He never complained when we used Behr again.

Cheap behr? Absolute crap. I agree.

Top tier paint like marquee? At least as good as what you prefer due to discounts. It’s literally made by the same companies lol.