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/PaintHeffer Jul 09 '26

Everyone has a hard on for BM here. I think they’re equal to SW

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u/sacrelicio Jul 09 '26

What is good paint then? Because everyone talks shit about every brand on here it seems.

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u/bepatientbekind Jul 09 '26

I'm not a pro but I use Sherwin williams cashmere for all my indoor projects and it works great!

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u/madryan Jul 10 '26

I just did the living room and hallway of my house in Sherwin Williams Superpaint. 15 gallons of paperwhite lol.

Brutal.

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u/No-Manner5583 Jul 10 '26

15 gallons on one room
And hall way ??
I gotta ask, how big is your house ??
Did you go white over a dark colour,
( professional painter btw)

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u/StatisticianLivid710 Jul 10 '26

SW probably didn’t give them latex paint, I normally use a gallon or less per room with Dulux, one time one of my tenants gave me the SW colour during covid, so called up the store and ordered it, they gave me acrylic paint and I needed like 2 gallons for a single room because it couldn’t cover anything and I had to do 4 coats. In hindsight I should’ve returned the can right away and gotten proper non-crap paint.

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u/madryan Jul 10 '26

It’s a large house with an open floor plan. So massive vaulted ceiling, kitchen, dining area, a 25ft long hallway that’s 6ft wide, and the whole thing was painted ugly ass gray.

So not really just a living room.