![]() The finish also holds up longer, which can make property maintenance easier. One coat is almost as good as if the area was primed.Īt the same time, paints are more resistant to dirt and soiling, making surfaces easier to clean without always needing solvent cleaners. Pigments particles are tightly spaced, almost like interlocking octagons. “You can touch up or match paint and it goes unnoticed,” Watson says.īecause smaller pigments create more vibrant colors and improve applications, priming the surface usually isn’t necessary. Latex paint has improved because formulations and ingredients outpace all other paint types when drying. Touching up jobs has gotten easier with improvements in latex paint technology, Watson says. Better pigments, quality repel dirt so paint looks better longer Even if the paint has weathered for several years, match technology will produce almost near perfect results. Peel off an inconspicuous part of paint and take it to the paint store for a match, Watson says. “If you put in the wrong one, maybe you forgot or got distracted, you didn’t get a true match.” “It used to be an associate mixing the paint had a metal file, and using a ruler to figure how much tint to drop in the can,” Watson said. Today’s machines determine the exact amount of color and automatically disperse it into the bucket. The associate could mix more or less of some colors, ultimately affecting the shade of the match. In the past, mixing was up to the paint associate who used the pigment codes produced by the scan as a guide. But the laser taking the picture of the pigment was not as accurate 15 years ago as it is today.” Paint matching more accurate through mixing automation “Digital spectrophotometers have been around a long time. “The scanning technology is better and quicker,” said The Home Depot Regional Pro Sales Manager Jeff Watson. The old paint is scanned to produce the right mixture of pigments, eliminating any guesswork by the paint associate. While the technology has been around for more than a decade, it’s advanced far from just a close match.īetter pigmentation is producing near identical results for matching paints applied five, 10 and 15 years ago, industry pros say.īest of all, an accurate paint match takes only a few minutes when working from an actual paint sample. Improved color-matching through software compatible with hand-held spectrophotometers is making it more possible to match old paint with new. Whether refreshing small areas or finishing a new addition to the house, matching exterior and interior paint has become a precise science to yield near identical results. Paint touch-up on your rental home has taken on a new meaning far beyond just a few small strokes of the brush. The Home Depot shares how paint match technology is making remodels, touch-ups better
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