House Painting | Color Tinting Technique

House Painting | Color Tinting Technique Tips

Painters use to tint their on paint back on the old days.
Mixing and Matching, until you they get the color you want.
When a client comes with an abstract idea o paint
colors for interior painting.
They can bring either, a picture frame, a paint chip,
a description of the color (they do :)), a rug, any thing that
they want to color blend well with the new chosen paint color.
DIY's if they have time an Patience the can accomplish a lot painting on their on
normally will take longer than expected, with is normal. They are not professional painters,
They are doing it to save money on the painting job, or just because they like to do it.
Well, Today's technology allow us to be more efficient when we talk about
tint a paint.
You just need to bring your samples to be color matched and a computer will
do the job for you. But some times things can go wrong color matching paint.
Like, even the computer has perfectly done it's job, when is time to dispense the
tint into the paint base, a mechanical failure of the dispenser or ruining out of the tint it self,
during the tinting process can be time consuming to fix it, but not impossible with a experienced
professional paint specialist.
The biggest problem is when you think the paint was perfectly tinted and was not.
You get the paint on the store drive circa 20 miles, get back to the job site to
start to work. When you open the can you look inside and something looks wrong,
and definitely was wrong the paint does not match your color choice.
So you need to drive back to the paint store and ask the sales guy to correct the product.
In normal circumstances they will correct the problem or either give you a totally new gallon of paint.
The small detail is that you lost lot of time correcting a problem done by others.
Time is money as you know, or either free time on weekends if you are a DYI.
The bottom line here is when you ask some one to color match something for you.
do the Following.

• Ask the professional that have mixed your paint to show you the final color. And you shod not have any problems.

If you have any questions just ask me.