The shrink continues....

[mattl]

A while back I posted about how Maxwell House coffee can had shrunk, now paint cans are shrinking.  I was painting today and noticed the can that has been a gallon for forever is now 10 oz. smaller.  That is a lot of paint to be shorted.  This is not cheap paint, I only use Sherwin Williams Cashmere, list price is $50/a sort of gallon.  I think this is a double rip off.  One the price stayed the same, two, in some cases it forces the customer to buy a second gallon, since in a largeish room the missing 10 oz. can make or break getting the job done.  SW only sells this quality of paint in gallons so the options of buying a quart -- that shrunk too - don't exist.

 

Luckily the sort of gallon was enough to do the walls, but the short quart was not enough for the ceiling, a real quart would have been fine.  So now I"m stuck paying $18 for a small can of paint that I should not need.  Just raise the damn price....

 

[dustin92]

Since you are in Michigan as well, we just finished doing a lot of painting, and the best paint we have found, was also by far the cheapest (and if memory serves me correctly, a full gallon). It is called "Everybody's Paint", and is recycled. It is made in Michigan, and I had no complaints at all, the color I used was a dark tan, and had no problem covering white in one coat. They make 14 colors and you are encouraged to mix colors to get exactly what you want. Our Restore in Jackson carries it and it is only $10 a gallon! I have one more room to paint, and will definitely use it again. It covered so well, I used only about half a gallon for a bedroom, while I needed two coats of a MUCH more expensive brand name paint to cover white in my bedroom (I used an entire *gallon* on 3 walls. Yes, I had noticed that paint cans were shrinking, and obviously even high end paint!

 

[gansky1]

I haven't bought paint for a long while, I'll have to make a note to check the container sizes. This is really frustrating, I'm sure and I wouldn't be silent about my objection to the pricing-sizing change. Especially at a store like SW, you'd think they would warn you when purchasing a single "quart" that it won't go as far. It's one thing to change the size of a detergent bottle or box, an item that usually isn't planned out for completion of the entire project but paint? That's ridiculous.

 

[countryguy]

About a month ago I painted my bathroom.  One quart of paint was $20 and a gallon was $40.  I only needed about 1.5 quarts and I didn't want a lot of left over paint so I had to spend $40 for 2 quarts when a gallon (4 quarts) is the same price???

 

Gary