If you are going to paint........

[Dave Lehnert]

If you were going to paint the inside of your home, what brand of paint will you use?

I have always had good luck with the Sears brand paint. Made by Sherwin Williams. Goes on good at a good price.

Purchased a Gal of Behr paint at Home Depot (premium $34) that stuff was so thin bet you could have sprayed it as is.

[Jim Rimmer]

I have good luck with Behr but sounds like you didn't. I use a lot of Sherwin Williams from their store. It depends on the store - I got 3 gallons from a store near where I work and every gallon was done wrong - wrong color formula, right formula but wrong color, but the store near my house made good on all of them.

I didn't know Sears had SW paint but then the nearest Sears is PIA to get ti.

[Jay Jolliffe]

I use to be a big fan of Ben Moore but now we use Sherwin Williams.....I painted houses for 20 odd yrs & always used Ben Moore. Oil base on the woodwork & latex on walls & ceilings......Now it's all latex which is made a lot better than 20 yrs ago. Use enough floetrol & it flattens out nicely......Sherwin Williams is a good paint

[Bryan Morgan]

Our contractor at work says always stick with Behr. Its a little more expensive but it lasts forever. Supposedly they have a new product which is paint and primer in one and he claims it works awesome. In my personal home, I just use whatever is on sale at the time.

[Ron Jones near Indy]

I have had great success with Sears best interior latex paint. Just the opposite luck with Porter Paints. S/W also has done well in my experience.

[John Mark Lane]

Painted many, many houses (including years feeding myself that way). Paints are much better than they used to be. As mentioned, latex these days rivals any oil base from years ago.

I have used Behr, simply because it was convenient, and had mixed results. Some of it has been garbage, but I have found some that is ok. Just today I was painting my son's treehouse with their deck and fence paint, and it seems quite good.

That said, I've always felt Benjamin Moore was the best.

[Michael Weber]

I belong to a DIY forum with a painting group. General consensus is Ben Moore or Sherwin Williams are really good. Behr has a terrible reputation among this group. YMMV

[Jim O'Dell]

I've used Behr for years. Had good luck until I tried a dark red. It would not cover after 3 coats. Got the same color in Sherwin Williams, one coat (on top of the other 3, and they were on top of primer). If you want a thick paint, go to Lowe's and get the Valspar. I don't think it is possible to thin that paint enough to spray, except out of a texture hopper!!! I've used it in my shop and it has done very well. Jim.

[Dave Lehnert]

Our contractor at work says always stick with Behr. Its a little more expensive but it lasts forever. Supposedly they have a new product which is paint and primer in one and he claims it works awesome. In my personal home, I just use whatever is on sale at the time.

Thats what I used, the new paint\primer stuff. Thin as water.
On a painting forum much like Sawmill Creek they bash Behr paint like Harbor Freight tools get on here.

[Dave Lehnert]

I have good luck with Behr but sounds like you didn't. I use a lot of Sherwin Williams from their store. It depends on the store - I got 3 gallons from a store near where I work and every gallon was done wrong - wrong color formula, right formula but wrong color, but the store near my house made good on all of them.

I didn't know Sears had SW paint but then the nearest Sears is PIA to get ti.

Sears paint is made by SW. They now also stock Pratt And Lambert paint. Also made by SW. Dutch Boy is also SW.

[Dan Friedrichs]

Behr = thin
Valspar = thick!

That said, I'm hopeful some of the professional painters will tell us why all these consumer-grade paints are junk, and what we ought to be buying, instead.

[Joe Pelonio]

For walls (drywall) I don't see that much difference. For woodwork I learned the hard way that Valspar, Behr, anything from Home Depot or Lowe's is garbage. Spend the money and use Benjamin Moore, or end up doing it over.

[Aaron Hastings]

My vote is for SW Cashmere. Easy to put on, accepts touch ups well, durable.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Benjamin Moore or nothing at all

[Don Alexander]

pretty tough to lump all products from any single manufacturer into a single category there are generally some good some not so good and some awful products

vast majority of manufacturers try to hit more than one target audience with a wide spectrum of product and quality , price points etc.

point being each individual model/version needs to be evaluated on its own merits not just on the manufacturer you wouldn't expect to compare a Cadillac Escalade and a Chevy Cobalt in a side by side comparision ( yet General Motors makes both vehicles) so why do it with tools or paint or anything else for that matter

if you want a useful and fair comparision you need similar level products in order for the conclusions drawn to be worthwhile