Best One Coat Paint

dingdongavoncalling

I'm looking for a really good coverage 'One coat' paint. So far (from tester pots) they don't seem to be one coat at all


I want to paint some wood and a brown coloured wall in cream.


I've tried B+Q'S one coat and Crown 'Solo'. Dulux seems the best of a bad bunch.


Is there such thing as a good one coat in cream? I don't mind paying more if it works and therefore saves me time

phill99

As a professional, this is all you need to know: there is no such thing as a one coat paint. They are marketing gimmicks for gullible home owners.

If you are going from brown to cream, you will need two and probably three coats. Therefore it is false economy. get a decent quality ordinary emulsion and apply 2 or three coats. The finish will be much better.

Doozergirl

phill99 wrote: »

As a professional, this is all you need to know: there is no such thing as a one coat paint. They are marketing gimmicks for gullible home owners.

If you are going from brown to cream, you will need two and probably three coats. Therefore it is false economy. get a decent quality ordinary emulsion and apply 2 or three coats. The finish will be much better.

Absolutely!

TheCyclingProgrammer

Agree with the above in general, although we used Earthborn Clay Paint in our living room and dining room and the darker colour (Damson Mousse) covered brilliantly in a single coat as it contains a lot of pigment. No second coat needed at all.

The lighter grey colour in our living room also covered very well with a single coat but was a bit patchy in a few spots. This was more down to it being harder to see any patches I'd missed due to it being very light (going over a white mist coat) though and they are barely noticeable, you wouldn't notice. Would have done a second coat if I hadn't felt lazy though.

But this is an exception. If you really want a paint that covers in one coat then by all means give Earthborn paints a try but I wouldn't recommend it if you want something thats durable. It works well in humid rooms like bathrooms as it is breathable - water vapour is absorbed and then released into the air (rather than allowing it to sit on the surface and promote mould growth). But this also means if you get any stains on it, you've had it. You can't scrub it, you can gently wipe it with a dry cloth but thats it. It doesn't touch up that well either so you'd be looking at re-painting edge to edge.

jbainbridge

You won't go from a dark colour to light in one coat. I would start with one coat of cheap white then two coats of your desired colour.

Doozergirl

jbainbridge wrote: »

You won't go from a dark colour to light in one coat. I would start with one coat of cheap white then two coats of your desired colour.

Tip: White is as hard to cover as dark colours. It's either super-light to cover with a darker colour or invisible when painting with at lighter colour.

Just buy the right paint and do it with whatever is the right number of coats. No money saved when you're still covering a different colour, regardless of shade.

I don't know about anyone else but my worst nightmare involves cleaning paintbrushes. I want that at a minimum!