Ace Hardware Royal Interior Paint
By Kakoa on
I have always used Bher paint when painting the rooms of my house. Recently I moved to a place where Ace hardware was by far closer than anywhere I could get Bher paint from. I decided to try Ace paint because it was going to be so much simpler to get more paint if I ran out here than driving a half hour. I started with the economy version of Ace paint and it was just OK. I missed my other paint, but decided to keep using Ace paint for the convenience factor.
I just finished paint a room in the Global Purple shade of paint. It is a dark purple color, so I had to use the more expensive Royal brand of Ace paint. I was told that the colors at the bottom of most of the color example papers only come in the more expensive Royal paint. I was not happy, but decided to get it anyway. I wish I wouldn't have.
The room I am painting is a basic sized bedroom (not sure of the exact square footage). By judging from the other rooms I have painted with the economy version of Ace paint, I should have only needed one gallon of this paint to get 2 coats on the walls. Well, one gallon did do two coats, but just barely. Not only did I have to get every little drop out of the can and roller to cover the walls twice, but the color was horrible! The first coat was almost a reddish fuchsia color...and it's supposed to end up deep purple! The second coat did make it darker, but it was still very very streaky and transparent.
I ended up having to buy TWO MORE quarts (should have just gotten a gallon) to put the third coat on. This paint is very watery and runs horribly. I will NOT be using this paint again.
just me voting...how'd I miss this one? :)
Wow. Paint can be such a crap shoot. Thanks so much for this information!
thank you so much for the warning on this paint. i will avoid it in the future
Thanks for letting me know a paint to stay away from!
Thank you for the information. When painting next, I will avoid this brand.
thanks for the heads up, we are going to be looking in to bedroom paint soon for a kid's room, will STEER CLEAR of this one!!
Nothing more yucky than runny paint kiddo! This sounds like it was time consuming for you since you had to layer on so many coats!!!
I have never had any luck with finding a good paint. I will definately not use this brand though, thank you for sharing your experience.
My husband held Master Painter class and used Ace paints quite a bit. We've never experienced these issues with their paints. It sounds to me like your local Ace was selling outdated paints. Or.. someone was tapping off cans and adding water to hide it. This is much more common then you might suppose Kakoa.
I am a professional contractor and I use Ace interior (Royal) paint often. It is easy to get, a great price and has good durability and coverage. As a rule, dark paints do not cover well - they often need as many as 4 coats. The deep bases used to mix the dark colors are more expensive as well. I'd do a side by side comparison between Behr and Ace Royal before making any conclusions. I don't think you are going to notice a difference.