Valspar colour match is different?

[georgeca]

Hi all,

Can Valspar colour ups differ across different tins? A few weeks ago I had Valspar colour match Farrow & Balls Strong White and used it to touch up the kitchen which was already painted in Strong White. It looked perfect, but I needed more paint so yesterday I went and got another one (Valspar colour matched F&B Strong White), but this one is much more grey than the other (See attached pic, the new tin is above the light switch - and yes the light switch is being cleaned).

Anyone had similar experience to this? Not really sure what to do now. I was thinking I could take the old tin to B&Q and have them make another the exact same as that? Or I could just get the actual F&B paint, but then I'm not sure which shade it would be... I much prefer the warmer colour then the darker new tin. Any ideas?

 

[opps]

As a decorator, I am surprised that the first colour matched tin was so close that you couldn't see the difference.

Colour matching is a bit of a myth, normally if you take a sample to be scanned, they simply find the closest colour in their range. Sometimes, various retailers will have sort of reversed engineer colours from the likes of F&B and you can ask for that colour as an equivalent.

It should however be noted that all store mixed paint can deviate from one tin to another. I'm not a fan of Farrow and Ball emulsions but back in the days when they supplied premixed paints, it was seldom the case that tins would deviate in colour.

 

[Wayners]

As above.
Colours don't even match if mixed on different machine.