I found out a week ago that Sherwin Williams had discontinued my paint color in 2017. It was Parker Paint who Sherwin Williams purchased in 2013 or so.. When I had my home built in 2005 I had all my walls and ceilings painted with this one color of Parker Paint. In the last 15 years I have purchased a gallon at a time to do touch ups. My walls look great. I don't do the drama of painting my walls different colors if I want a different look I move my pictures around. I live in a 2800SF home so can you imagine the shock and disbelief when I found out that they had discontinue my paint color. I than proceeded to bring them samples of my paint, codes and some of the old wet paint that I had left.
I had them try 4 times but it just kept getting worse. It looked like water stains on my wall. I than went to Ace they couldn't do the sheen, than I went to Olympic same result. I was very upset as what was I going to do. Repaint all my walls which would have cost me around $15k. I started emailing and calling around to professional painters thinking they might be able to help me. I got a response from a professional paint company letting me know that matching paint is very difficult. They would attempt to do it for a fee but said Rodda paint is who they use and they have had great success with them so I told them thanks for the info and I'd try working with Rodda paint first. Just so you know there are different sheens and every paint company labels them differently, flat, pearl, matte, eggshell, satin, semi-gloss & hi-gloss. Sherwin Williams had the sheen wrong the first time. Just because park paint called it satin did not mean it was satin. It was matte finish to Sherwin Williams. To Rodda it was pearl finish.
Anyway yesterday I took my samples in to Rodda and found the best guy in the state Dennis so I was told. Well I picked up the gallon today and it is a perfect match. I almost cried. This saved me thousands of dollars. I will give Dennis a tip but really why can't there be a Dennis in every profession. People who actually take pride in their work. Thank you Dennis and if your company doesn't realize how valuable you are shame on them. thank you thank you. Roger Olson read more