Buying paint and saving $$

[Ephany]

I learned the neatest thing today. Lowes carries contractor sized paint (5 gallon buckets instead of 1 gallon). I needed 9 gallons for inside my house and 1 gallon for outside. At $25 (roughly) a gallon that would have been $250+tax. Instead I bought 5 gallon buckets at that are regularly around $65 but they were 20% off and I had a 10% off purchase coupon. I walked out with two 5 gallon buckets for inside my house and one 1 gallon container for outside for $130! This move has caught us by surprise in the amount of $ needed, so it was really nice to be under budget this time!

 

[RachaelA]

DH and I plan to get the 5 gallon buckets that when we start painting our new house. Every room needs to be painted (over 2400 sq. ft!).

2 questions
1. they are 20% off right now?
2. where did you get the 10% off coupon?

congrats on your savings!

 

[ElleBren]

Also usually around holiday weekends, there have the valspar rebate on paint. Like over July 4th we bought a gallon of paint and got $5 back. Had we bought a 5 gallon one we would have gotten $20 back. I would guess they would have it Labor day weekend. I think Home depot does it as well.

 

[Ephany]

The 20% off was on a notice on the counter. It was a certain series Valspar 2000 I think, and came off automatically at checkout. I'm not sure if they go on sale often, but even regular price is more cost effective than buying the gallons singularly. The 10% came in the mail b/c we're putting our home on the market to sell. It was this booklet that came from Lowe's but had our realtor's name and picture. Every little bit helps that's for sure.

 

[Disfan891]

Thanks for posting this, really good to know. My parents will be repainting soon, so the 5 gallon buckets will work well for them. Congrats on saving yourself a bundle!

 

[mamalle]

thanks. we normally buy 5 gallon since its the whole outside of the house but if its on sale I will send him over to check it out. I was waiting till the end of the summer to repaint the outside but for a good price I might just do it now..

 

[travelgirl06]

We just did this too. The 20% off is on Valspar 2000 which is their "contractor paint". I wanted to buy a 5 gal container for our interior, but they didn't have the right base in the regular eggshell, so I asked about the 2000 paint. The first Lowe's we went to wouldn't tint it in our color (the guy claimed it could only be tinted specified, off-white, colors), but at the second Lowe's the guy was able to tint contractor paint any color for us.

The contractor 5 gal was like $76 for Eggshell, vs. $105 for the "regular" eggshall. With the 20% off plus 10% (change of address coupon) the 5 gallon bucket came out to around $50! We wound up with 9 gallons of paint (5 gallon bucket and 4 1 gallon buckets) for about $120, much better than the $250 I would have paid for individual "premium" buckets. The coverage is decent, I think the contractor paint does require a little more touching up as you go (not quite as thick), but the end result looks just as good as the room we did in the premium paint.

 

[rhondadriscoll]

In my experience it is best to pay more for your paint so that it will last 10 years.

 

[rhondadriscoll]

Cheaper paints fade and are sun damaged much earlier... food for thought.

 

[Blue.Fairy2]

Cheaper paints fade and are sun damaged much earlier... food for thought.

Behr is much better paint and they just had a rebate program $25 off 5 galleons, $6 off a galleon

$105 - 25% = 78.75 - 10% moving coupon = 70.88

Behr is a much better paint than Valspar hands down

They carry Behr at the Home Depot

 

[robb01]

Thanks!

 

[RachaelA]

Behr is much better paint and they just had a rebate program $25 off 5 galleons, $6 off a galleon

$105 - 25% = 78.75 - 10% moving coupon = 70.88

Behr is a much better paint than Valspar hands down

They carry Behr at the Home Depot

the rebate program is right now?

 

[scribega]

Home Depot and Lowe's usually have areas where they have MT (mistinted) paint. These usually go for $5 for one gallon. So if you are a little flexible with your paint color and can check the stores often you can get a good deal. Sometimes they have it on the 5 gallons (not sure of the price).

 

[travelgirl06]

As of yesterday, there were no current rebates on Behr at our HD....

 

[Anne34]

Behr is much better paint and they just had a rebate program $25 off 5 galleons, $6 off a galleon

$105 - 25% = 78.75 - 10% moving coupon = 70.88

Behr is a much better paint than Valspar hands down

They carry Behr at the Home Depot

I have never used Valspar, but I don't like the Home Depot paint. It is too watery and I end up having to go over everything twice. I usually use Benjamin Moore, but for this price I would try the Valspar.