I AM NOT HAPPY!

Let me tell you a little about our experience yesterday. Well this project started about a month ago. We have some windows on the North side of our house we decided to take out. So we had the outside re-stuccoed(if that's even a word), and Bret has been working for weeks getting the inside mud and taped. We finally decided yesterday that we were ready to paint. So we went to Home Depot to choose a color and get started. Keep in mind we've already mad a few trips there to ask some important paint questions. For starters, our house is painted in oil-base paint. Well when we painted the boy's room a few months ago we went to a Kwal Paint store and we were told if we wanted latex paint we needed to first prime it with an oil base primer. Well to move on with the story, multiple people at Home Depot told us about this great new product they have. It's their new Behr primer + paint all in one. Of course the first question we ask is, "Can you use this on oil base paint?"

"Oh, this stuff will adhere to anything!", the man said.

So, we bought. We were still a little skeptical based on previous information, but we figured the painting department knew what they were talking about.

So me and Bret (mostly Bret) tape and paint our wall. After about 3 hours when the product is finished Bret goes to pull off the tape. And guess what? The paint comes with it!

To try and make a LONG story short, we headed back to Home Depot to tell them what happened, got our money back, and went to ask the painting department the best way to get this off our wall. A different girl this time says, "Oh, you can't paint over oil base paint with this!" All I could think was, oh really! So she tries to get us to buy this weird latex paint remover for cars, tile, drive-ways, and some other weird places, but nowhere does it say you can use it on walls. So needless to say we didn't get it! We just spent the next six hours trying to get this stupid paint off our wall!

I think one of the crapiest parts is that it came off the painted part of the wall really well, but where the brand new dry wall and mud is it adhered to.

Here is the completed mess! Now we get to call someone who does dry wall because now we get to texture our whole room over so that you won't be able to tell what a mess it was.

I AM NOT HAPPY!!

Oh, and here is what a half gallon of Behr Premium primer + paint all in one looks like scraped off an oil base paint wall. We have decided we will be doing all our future paint purchases at Kwal!