>>890789Doubtful. Ex-home depot paint-fag employee. The only thing that might have convinced me is to threaten to call corporate.
Beyond that theres no actual color matching gaurantee.
When you get your sample matched ask to repeat the chromotagraph reading until you get the same readings repeated. In a properly calibrated machine this should happen within the first four readings.
Secondly take a sample of the paint and apply it to the sample corner to check for match. Do not accept it if it doesn't match.
They'll just sell it on the oops shelf and someone will buy it. We won't lose money on the effort, but wont make it either...
The truth is that the machines are rarely ever properly maintained and calibrated by the counter jockies who are nothing more than glorified cashiers trying to pay for their next xbox360 or fishing lure. These people don't give a shit about their job for which they received training which amounted to watching an hour long outdated vhs tape with bad acting.
Go to sherwin williams or another local paint shop and express your frustration with home depots color matching system, the ineptness of the teenager running it, and your decision to finally go to the pros.
Yes, you'll pay more per gallon. Just like youll pay more for furniture from a guy thats been making kitchen tables for longer than you've been alive than a walmart flat pack... but you get what uou pay for.
Having worked at home depot i never set foot in there and only ever go to the pros and small local shops who feel like they have to earn your business.
If it matters i took a sample in from my Georgian style home's exterior. The sample was covered by trim and the house had been painted over three times in evermore garish colors. I wanted to revive the house to its original condition so i took it into a sherwin williams.
He ended up doing two readings, recalibrating, then doing another two reading which matched the first two. Once it was mixed we tested and matched.
