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they alway have shiny patches and not totally flat
Some people are sensitive to this, other never notice. I agree a lot of paints have issues with coverage but you need to look at prep and flatness of walls compared to roller size as well. Also roller pile length which helps if the walls are not flat.
With a very small roller a lot of these problems go away then brush out with a 4" brush if you don't want roller 'eggshell'.
Airhead-
i’m not going to tell you that you are wrong but it wasn’t even a hot day and walls were clean, to apply with small roller and brush out to a nice finish would need 2 people getting very cosy and literally working right behind each roller stroke because the time it would take to put the roller down and pick up a brush (that somehow wasn’t starting to dry itself) was too long to be able to ‘work it’ and get a good finish as it’s too dry.
if i ever decide i have to have a Mylands colour i’ll get you to paint it :-)as to not noticing? i’m a bit obsessive about things like that but i now realise once you are sat on the sofa you can’t really make out the area next to the door frame where you didn’t feather edge the filler very well...
Mr_Smyth
“Mylands is one of my current favourites for fancy paint.”
i tried to paint my kitchen with it and while i’m no expert i know how to apply and lay off to get a decent finish with no streaks but the paint was drying so fast i couldn’t get a decent finish and it was very patchy and the last roller direction was clearly visible even if i did the flick up/down and decreasing the pressure as you roll off the wall. only way i could work was with a brush and dithering the direction randomly and working in small areas at a time, even then you are painting next to a dry edge that you covered 2 mins previous.
in the shop they said i needed to add a product called flositrol to retard the drying which is only available in big tins and makes the already expensive paint even more ridiculous.
will never buy that shit again.
i’ll stick to little green, people say it’s not as good as trade paint but i haven’t found anything that gets a really nice flat mat finish and the times i have tried cheaper paint matched to sourdough crust/audi bootliner grey/waitrose green colours they alway have shiny patches and not totally flat.