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You might want to consider re-coating your coop with acrylic latex. Oil based paints are very toxic. That's why they are not commonly used anymore. If your birds peck at the paint at all, like mine do or if it flakes at some point it could make your chickens very sick or worse.
As far as Sherwin Williams, everyone will have different experiences but when I was in business I used SW paint on one job because they were having a "sale". I still paid $47 for a gallon of maroon with no recommendation for tinted primer. It took me six coats to get it to cover! At that price and that many coats it just doesn't work. The thing is that to say"similar color" doesn't mean anything. When I bought the Behr paint for my coop the color that was one shade lighter called for tinted primer and the one that was one shade darker called for tinted primer but my color didn't and of course the difference was negligible but what matters is the pigment configuration. If it took 4 coats with a tinted primer then either you didn't purchase the premium (in which case the brand doesn't matter) or there was a problem in the application. There's no way that a properly applied, good quality paint, being applied over a tinted primer should take four coats no matter the brand. I painted my coop with two coats over white primer and I could have "gotten away" with one but I really wanted protection from the New England weather.
The reason I recommend Behr is because in my experience as a painter, dollar for dollar, it is as good as any "big name" brand you'll find and you'll pay up to 1/3 less or more. SW is good paint, no doubt, but WAY over priced. Especially for a chicken coop. Like I told my boys, we're building a chicken coop, not the Taj Mahal.
You might want to consider re-coating your coop with acrylic latex. Oil based paints are very toxic. That's why they are not commonly used anymore. If your birds peck at the paint at all, like mine do or if it flakes at some point it could make your chickens very sick or worse.
As far as Sherwin Williams, everyone will have different experiences but when I was in business I used SW paint on one job because they were having a "sale". I still paid $47 for a gallon of maroon with no recommendation for tinted primer. It took me six coats to get it to cover! At that price and that many coats it just doesn't work. The thing is that to say"similar color" doesn't mean anything. When I bought the Behr paint for my coop the color that was one shade lighter called for tinted primer and the one that was one shade darker called for tinted primer but my color didn't and of course the difference was negligible but what matters is the pigment configuration. If it took 4 coats with a tinted primer then either you didn't purchase the premium (in which case the brand doesn't matter) or there was a problem in the application. There's no way that a properly applied, good quality paint, being applied over a tinted primer should take four coats no matter the brand. I painted my coop with two coats over white primer and I could have "gotten away" with one but I really wanted protection from the New England weather.
The reason I recommend Behr is because in my experience as a painter, dollar for dollar, it is as good as any "big name" brand you'll find and you'll pay up to 1/3 less or more. SW is good paint, no doubt, but WAY over priced. Especially for a chicken coop. Like I told my boys, we're building a chicken coop, not the Taj Mahal.
