Wrong Color, using SW please help!
I had work so long during the find the right color the dark green and creamish house in the second photo I bought so many quarts of Sherwin-Williams, because I get a discount there.. do you think it is one of the colors in the third picture I'm not sure anymore I've been working so long?
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Comments (6)Oh boy. This is where things get ugly. We have to 'split' the blame into small measurable units. Here we go. The homeowner picked the tile (was it rectified? Square edged or eased edge?) and the grout (I'm assuming you picked the COLOUR and not the quality?). You picked the FINISHES. OK. The 'look' is on you. The GC chose NOT to QUOTE for the subfloor work (preparation should be $2-$4/sf x 2200sf = $4400 - $8800 for this job). Which means you did NOT pay for subfloor work. A wonky subfloor = wonky tiled flooring. As cruel as this sounds, you got what you paid for. $0 paid subfloor prep = $0 owing for subfloor prep offered. Next point: The GC picked the STRUCTURAL MATERIALS. That's on HIM. His choice of 'thinset' (LFT requires a different technique) was wrong. That one's on him. His installers did NOT use the proper spacing requirements. Again, the GC OWNS the work his subcontractors produce. Again, this is on him. At this point, this requires a redo. And I mean complete gut and removal, repurchase (if the grout has not gone down you might be able to salvage ++ of these tiles....*might) and reinstall. The GC owes you: Replacement tiles for the one's that cannot be salvaged Proper thinset/mortar materials PROPER TILE SETTERS not just 'some guys' who use a trowel!!! His workers = his headache! Proper leveling system and staggered 1/3 off-set tile setting Quote for subfloor preparation What you owe the GC: 1. Payment for subfloor preparation (budget for $2 - $4/sf...just to be safe) You did not pay for subfloor prep. Sadly, both of you owe this to one another. The GC needs to FINISH his quote and you need to PAY the price for subfloor prep once the final bill (labour + materials) come in. As someone in the flooring industry, I have seen enough flooring mistakes to last a lifetime. This is an expensive lesson that the GC MUST LEARN. Don't feel 'bad' about this. Obviously he's skated by on flooring up to this point. He thought he could do it again...but he thought wrong. Now he pays the price for not knowing something he ought to have known. What you owe yourself: A critique of the overall work of the GC. You need to ask yourself if your GC messed up on such a massive job, is there anything else they messed up on? I do not wish to scare you, but a bad flooring job could be the indicator for other problems with this build. Please make sure you move cautiously with any of the other work that has been done or is supposed to be done in the future. Obvious places to look: Plumbing and Electrical. These require expensive professionals (in a hot Canadian market a Red Seal Plumber or Electrician bills $180/hr = more per hour than a Family Physician = $122/hr). A PROFESSIONAL tile setter is one of the other BIG EXPENSES on a build. They are so expensive that many GCs (yours included) will try to save money by using 'guys who swish a trowel'. If your GC cheaped out on tiling, what else did he cheap out on?...See MoreRelated Professionals
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Finish the painting job and work on landscaping.
If possible I would remove the black grills on the windows.
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This was the other house color I was looking at but I really do not like the one called pewter green that is up there now and it looks like it's a creamish color that goes with that dark olive I have a fan deck from Sherwin-Williams and nothing is matching right but thank you for the picture so much
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The colour that's partly painted is more of a forest green, is this olive green more like what you want?
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Review the colors in the bottom 2 rows that resemble your inspiration images.
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last monthlast modified: last monthWhen looking at exterior colors you really need large samples and need to look at each sample at different times of the day on all 4 sides of the home.
Because you are painting a huge surface smaller samples that look gray or too muddy are the ones that when painted on that big surface look right.
The ones that look good on the small sample look way more colorful once you get a few hundred square feet painted.
I believe you were trying to say that the current exterior color is Isle of Pines.
Look at how bright it looks on your home. It is in the middle section of the SW colors.
For the look you want you need to stick to muted shades or even go into the neutrals with green undertones.
These are some of the colors I would test
Here is a blog post on Muddled Basil (Darkest/Greenest Yellow)https://nadinestay.com/our-exterior-phase-1-reveal/
Pewter green is one I didn't include you said you didn't like it, but also seemed to be calling it a cream, which it is not. It is one of the top selling green paint colors in the SW lineup.
Can you be clearer on why you didn't like Pewter Green?
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Here's the house in an Olive Green but to know if it will be to your expectations in different lights, you'll have to do samples in a few areas and look at it at different times of the day.
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PROlast monthlast modified: last monthI used lisedv rendition to show that my color picker shows Andiron SW.
https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/green-paint-colors/SW6174-andiron
19 days agolast modified: 17 days agoYou need to try SW Colorsnap....upload your photo and paint your house virtually...like this sample from them. Your house is going to be so pretty.
I'm not suggesting these colors....this is to show ColorSnap for two colors mentioned.
19 days agoMy daughter recenty painted her house SW Pewter Green. It does not look like the color you have currently started on your house AND it is definitely not a cream color.
Colors will look lighter outside than they do inside your home.
This is SW Pewter Green + Alabaster (I think it's Alabaster):
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