Touching up dark farrow and ball colours

ashe

We've got some dark green farrow and ball paint. I've read before that it can be impossible to touch up - we successfully touched up some light grey paint in our hallway previously, so my girlfriend tasked me with sorting this out. 

I rolled over the area and made sure the edges were fairly feathered so that there would be no crazy raised edges. Unfortunately it's flashing slightly as it reflects the light slightly differently to the original section. I'm trying to avoid repainting the entire wall, any way around this?

We used the same tin of paint & I rolled in the same direction, but it seems to have a much flatter sheen than the original section.  

Eldi_Dos

You could try a bucket of lukewarm water and a clean sponge, give whole wall a wash down, let it dry out then give it another going over.
If this still leaves different shades on the wall I would just redo wall with fresh paint.

rob7475

Did you use the same type / brand of roller sleeve as when you originally painted the wall? If not, you'll get a different finish on the wall and it'll stand out more.

It also looks like you may have loaded too much paint onto the roller. If I'm touching up scuffs etc, I barely have any paint on the roller and try and feather it out as much as possible to avoid what has happened there.

I've never used F&B paints but have read that they can be quite unforgiving and difficult to get a good, tough finish. I tend to use Crown trade scrubbable paint and they will mix it up to F&B colours for me if that's what I'm looking for.

ashe

rob7475 said:

Did you use the same type / brand of roller sleeve as when you originally painted the wall? If not, you'll get a different finish on the wall and it'll stand out more.

It also looks like you may have loaded too much paint onto the roller. If I'm touching up scuffs etc, I barely have any paint on the roller and try and feather it out as much as possible to avoid what has happened there.

I've never used F&B paints but have read that they can be quite unforgiving and difficult to get a good, tough finish. I tend to use Crown trade scrubbable paint and they will mix it up to F&B colours for me if that's what I'm looking for.

We use Tikurilla now for all rooms but it was too late for this room and our stairs. Our stairs are in light grey though and that is fine for touching up. Used same roller, same size, rolled in same direction. It was feathered out, didnt use a huge amount of paint. It's just dried a slightly different shade and sheen somehow.