Sorry, but I hadn't finished... Now I am.
> The one that best sums up my own experience, the people who ordered 'thunderstruck grey' and got purple, or vice versa.
Bumbling.
And who do we blame when no one can get anything right? When you can't trust what you're paying for? We're only just coming out of the EU, can't blame that. But can say we've been dependent on others for too long. No one has any skills now. No one has any artisanal ways about them. Maybe it's time.
Est. 1946? Prove it. Make your parents and your grandparents proud, and so it goes~~
[Ordered more paint after, in two sample pots, to try and finish the last wall, shade sent was of course not matching and could never be matched. Had to repaint the 'feature wall' in white with Valspar and then ordered what I suspected could be the shade - either 'Burnt Saffron' or someone else suggested it was more like 'Lioness' - and that was wrong (and, frankly, a horrendous shade and coverage), it also smelled like cat piddle, exacerbated by the temperature, when the sun hit the wall or the window was open, and I had to sponge the wall down with white spirit vinegar to destroy the bacteria or whatever was variously ascribed to be causing the smell. After this, Lioness, I decided I could not stand the shade and have just repainted the wall, white, two coats of Dulux, and have opened the tin of Burnt Saffron; applied a bit, to be sure, but same smell, and greasy, oily, drippy, water-based, watered-down rubbish, a worse shade than the Lioness, like tan schizophrenic wall smearings or used diaper contents, and really not anything like the website comparison or how it looks fresh in its tin.
Graham & Brown are a crooked, thieving disgrace. Possibly a slow and graceless fall into administration.
Although I did wonder, which bothered me, if it was the old couple who started the business in '46 who are no longer able or operational at their craft and have failed to realise it.
I am stopping, I am fuming, more ways than one, with this noxious, 'eco-friendly', nu-toxic paint (or neuro-toxic, from the feels of it).
Gonna vinegar and white over that test patch, which is luckily just a top corner, and get some farrow & ball or some other brand, or at this point just regress into a feral state and finger paint (hand print) the wall, make it arty and stress-relieving, and never look back.]
6 de setembro de 2021
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