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On colour matching. Whilst Brewers do it, they are a bit shit at my local branch. Lovely people though, just a bit clueless.
Went in last Friday with the wallpaper sample wanting two testers. One they could do just fine but the other was too small a patch of colour for their machine. Fine, got a sample of one of them. Samples only available in matt emulsion.
Took it home, tried it out and decided we would go for that colour anyway.
They told me I just needed the code off the tin or even just my name as they would store that in the machine and make a note.
Went back on Saturday to ask for 1L of eggshell in the colour they mixed up the day before. However, it turns out the code is also linked to the type of paint so they couldn't use that to make the same colour in eggshell, I'd need the original colour reference.
Went back in yesterday with the wallpaper sample, got them to mix it up in eggshell. Came home, totally different fucking colour....... Not just a "it will dry lighter" thing, but the difference between a warm pink and a totally grey/beige. I didn't bother getting them to open the tin as the person serving remembered me from Friday and we had a whole big discussion about what the colour should be.
Will need to find more time to go back with the original tester pot and the wallpaper sample and see if they'll refund me.