Black paint cheap?
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What do you need the paint for? How much do you need? Americas Finest is HD's cheapo brand, you should be able to get black for less than $20, if interior latex is okay. A gallon of flat black latex goes a long way, and is a lot cheaper than getting other types of paint (spray paint, acrylics, etc) if you need that much. I had a can last 2 seasons when I was building a small haunted house for a town Halloween party. If you need a smaller amount, Michaels, Wal-Mart and other places have smaller bottles of Acrylic paint for $1 and up.
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Westlakes has a contractors grade paint, 10 bucks a gallon; that is as cheap as I have found it.
Not really black but really dark grey
Mis-tints at HD, $5 and as long as you get a color that can be easily tinted to dark grey or almost black, lighting and darkness should take care of the rest. Just picked up one yesterday.
Going to see how far it goes this year so I might end up getting one more.
Mis-tints at HD, $5 and as long as you get a color that can be easily tinted to dark grey or almost black, lighting and darkness should take care of the rest. Just picked up one yesterday.
Going to see how far it goes this year so I might end up getting one more.
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ext has a higher binder & pigment with UV stabilizers as well as mildewcide.Int costs a little less,but not by much. If you go to a paint store & get a bottle of black tint additive, it's concentrated & alot goes a long way,so several drops will darken up any gray or off white paint to black. If you add enough tint you can black any color paint,green,red, you may see a hint of that color,but it will so dark that unless you have it next to a black color,you won't know the difference,especially at nite.
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Also while talking to one of the associates at HD I found out that certian color tints can neutralize other colors, to give you a true gray. Alos you can't get a true black using a white base paint.
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Stopped by my Local HD to check this out, and they were blowing out their mistints....picked up a few gallons , including one that the nice lady blackened up for me, for $1 a gallon! That was just too much fun!
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This is really valuable info, didn't know you could get black (even if it's only mostly black
) so cheap, thanks! Off to HD I go.
) so cheap, thanks! Off to HD I go.
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Let's see, it took me aprox 12 gals of flat black paint to cover a 1200 sqft Haunt , not sure how many 4x8 sheets of plywoods it covered?
Like the others during the year I look at the HD and Lowes for the oops paint for anything black or grey hey $ 5.00 a gallon is great. I don't find black very often but I do find a few during the year. I also have bought black at WalMart paint they mix it there the color is black Ink and it was $ 11.00 per gallon last year I have not bought any this year.
The key to finding anything for Halloween...
Is to look all year long, starting Nov 1 through Oct 28!
Mis-tints for $1, dang, I would have bought all they had as paint is always a good thing to have too much of when designing/building a haunt on the other 364 days of the year when we aren't doing much.
Is to look all year long, starting Nov 1 through Oct 28!
Mis-tints for $1, dang, I would have bought all they had as paint is always a good thing to have too much of when designing/building a haunt on the other 364 days of the year when we aren't doing much.
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Haunting 101.......the other 364 days of the year will be used for building/designing props, dumpster diving, garage sailing, idea stealing~oops, I mean "borrowing", forum browsing, etc., etc., etc.,
Not doing much? Hehehehehehehe LOL
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I talked to my HD paint expert yesterday, and was given this tip.....shop for mistints on Mondays (or early in the week) because they usually get most of their returns during the weekend. She also took down my name and number to call when they get darker colors in that can easily be turned to black.
Menards carries a brand called Conco
http://www.concopaints.com/datasheets/flats.htm
It may be available elsewhere.
They make a premixed black. I have bought this, and had other paints tinted black and the Conco is by far the best dark rich flat black I have ever used. It's about $12 or $13 bucks a gallon, not a mistint $1 find, but still a good price for a gallon of exterior paint.
http://www.concopaints.com/datasheets/flats.htm
It may be available elsewhere.
They make a premixed black. I have bought this, and had other paints tinted black and the Conco is by far the best dark rich flat black I have ever used. It's about $12 or $13 bucks a gallon, not a mistint $1 find, but still a good price for a gallon of exterior paint.
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Sure she took it down to call you when they get in some other colors! Sounds like you may have a stalker now!
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I picked up all my Halloween for wicked cheap at Walmart yesterday. It seemed like all the colors people reject were exactly what I needed! I'll check the receipt, but they weren't more than $20 combined.
Gallon of dark gray
Quart of corpse brown
Quart of black
Quart of light gray
Quart of mossy green
Gallon of dark gray
Quart of corpse brown
Quart of black
Quart of light gray
Quart of mossy green
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Halloween paint, that is. Is there a post edit button?
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