Thread: How do you mistint black paint?

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That's what the Lowe's manager who was checking me out asked the paint manager after he got him on the phone.... I just gave them my $5 and ran.

Actually it's not any harder to mistint Black then White. Just as there are many shades of "off" white there are as many shades of black. I pick up mistinted "black" all the time. Some Blacks have a tad too much red and have a purple hue. Some too much blue and are more blue then black. The color wet in the pail can be very different dry on the wall.

In most of the my uses it don't matter how black the black is but I bet if someone is paying full price for the paint they want their black the correct shade. Hopefully the paint dept gave the manager a lesson on how difficult it is to get the right hue, shade, tint.

Also Lowes changes the color of returned paint. So that mistint may have started out as a green or blue.

This is an almost perfect match when dry to the Glidden Onyx Black I already have. I don't see many blacks of any hue in the mistints around here, especially not this black of a black. My guess is they used the wrong base.

If they change the color of mistinted paints, then someone there has a sick fetish for hideous pinks. There seems to be an endless supply of it!

I worked at the paint desk long ago and some days it's fun to see what you come up with. Most of what i did ended up dark green or deep blue. I think valspar and olympic both add secret pink and beige additives that pop up be it a mistint or not. If you want black black look for kettle black otherwise you get a bluish black.

Sold! Gotta love some cheap black paint.

I don't understand why they don't stock a true black paint. I don't want a bunch of pigments added to "make" black, I want a straight-from-the-factory solid jet black!

We painted my friend's basement ceiling with three gallons of flat black and a Wagner power painter. It was much more gray than black. Seems to me, they could at least stock three or four cans so if someone needs a true black, they don't need to worry about separation in cans and off-blacks.

And no, I ain't paying Rustoleum's prices for their enamels. Latex black should be available.

I do know that that the Lowe's around me carry Flat Blat paint by Valspar in pint, quart and gallon sizes. It is near where the spray paint and factor color paints are.

Hmm.... price range?


Heck I'm almost out the door anyway, I'll just stop in and find it. Valspar? Will go looking.

The quart is around $9 and the Gallon is around $16 the 1/2 pint is a around $5 and they have Flat, Semi and Gloss Black to chose from.
price as of 4-6-10