"Wouldn't not recommend valpsa paint as…"

Wouldn't not recommend valpsa paint as soon as started paint with their under coat and then the coulour cracks had started appearing on the wall had wipe it off and sand it when dryed and
start again.
Then it did it again so when ihad lost the will to live with it and when brought dulux insted Sorry, will be sticking with dulux in future

"I never recommend valspar"

As a painter and decorator for over 20 years, this has to be the worst paint I’ve ever used. Terrible coverage, watery, colours never match the swatches. When customers want to get their own paint and I always advise to avoid valspar and they ignore and buy valspar, I know it’s going to take more coats, the exterior paint chips, it’s not good!! Come on valspar look at these reviews! AVOID

"Valspar - Compromised Formula = Awful Quality"

Valspar, what have you done. I'm a loyal customer who only used your product for 8 years, but you have lost my loyalty.

In the last 2 years the quality of your products have deteriorated considerably. I'm so gutted as it use to be such good quality. I don't know whether you have changed the formula as a cost cutting exercise?

Premium Interior Walls and. ceiling Paint....
I painted my living room and the quality was bad and thought it was a one off. I then purchased 3 more big tins to decorate the kitchen and suffered the same issue. When you pay over £45 a tin you expect more than this. I was one tin short of completing the kitchen and had no other option to buy one more to get the job finished. I felt forced to pay for another tin or face staring again with another brand, so I reluctantly parted with my money £. I explained the issue we had with the sales assistant in B&Q in Halesowen even offering to show photos or videos. They were not interested and was simply told to write a review as nothing could be done in store!!! So here it is, for all to see.

The appropriate preparation to the walls was followed. Upon application, the consistency means as you brush and then go back in the other direction (literally a second later) and the brush removes the product. I have no idea why. I have photos and a video to show the issue so if you genuinely want to improve things, as all your responses to the endless negative comments suggests, please do reach out and I will provide these. The paint almost goes like a thick/glue like and gathers whilst also removing paint at the same time. It's difficult to explain. Almost puckers! You end up using much more paint to correct this issue and need far more coats. Perhaps a ploy to sell more paint?! A few years back only 2 coats were required at most, buy now at least 4 are needed. Terrible quality and so disappointing to see what use to be a perfect paint formula change into one that is so very poor. Feel like I have been robbed.

"Thin, watery, awful."

About to apply coat number three - not holding my breath that even this will make it look decent. Watery rubbish. Nowhere near as good as other brands. Avoid.

"Lesson learnt "

Lesson learnt.
Wished I consulted Trustpilot before making the regrettable decision in buying this incredibly inferior product, as does my decorator.
Loved the colour, but after a 4th coat on an undercoated wall, this coloured watery excuse for paint is still well below the expected finish.
Avoid at all costs

"Extremely poor coverage!"

I've used Valspar on many occasions without issue. I've just attempted to paint my kitchen in Premium Kitchen and Bathroom, Brilliant white over cream, 2 coats should have done the job... what a mess, I'm not even sure another 2 coats would give me a decent finish. The consistency looked good and I had high hopes. My kitchen is fiddly, many things to cut in and paint around, after 6 hours, weary and exasperated, I gave up. I've ordered a different brand with amazing reviews. Valspar need to get the pigment sorted, there's clearly something not right with it.

"Do not rely on colour swatches"

Do not rely on colour swatches!
Colour not remotely like the swatches in both pots purchased - very disappointing. Lesson learned- never again…

"Avoid this product & stick to the old faithful"

I will repeat what a lot of other reviews have said, DO NOT BUY THIS PAINT. I could tell the tale about the customer service person at the Isle of Wight B&Q branch recommending it as an obliterating paint etc. & my brief but arduous experience using this awful product! But simply my advice is - just don’t buy it! I ended up driving around the corner to Toolstation (more competitive pricing) & purchased, from a very helpful & friendly young man, a pot of the stuff with the faithful old dog on the tin. Fabulous job done!

"Colour does not match the swatch cards "

After using Valspar paint for many years and being happy with it, we decided to try the new Valspar 'V&Co' dead-flat matt paint. Using the swatch card and also looking online, we purchased 5 litres of 'Blue shade 4', on sale at B&Q for £50. On opening the tin, we tried the paint on a sample of white wallpaper. Although the paint itself was rich and seemed to have good coverage, the colour was nothing like the swatch - much deeper and a 'cold' colour. Customer services advised it may have been a 'mis-tint' and said we could swap it for another colour, so we purchased 3 sample pots of other colours that looked nice from the swatches. Once again the colours did not look like the swatch cards. The colours were really deep and just unpleasant shades. So we are almost £70 out of pocket and still have not found a V&Co paint which is a pleasant colour! As Valspar refuse to refund customers and the paints do not resemble their colour swatches, nor their website images, I cannot recommend their V&Co range.

"Valspar Paint Bad Odour"

I had my hall and landing painted in April, the decorator used some Valspar paint which my husband bought from B&Q several years ago and which had be stored in a spare room in the house, unopened till it was used.

The decorator applied two coats of the paint which was low odour on application and I was very pleased with the coverage and finished effect of the paint

Two weeks ago I began to smell a unpleasant odour whenever I used the staircase, it is a ammonia smell, the smell of cat pee. I don't own a cat. I realised last night it was the painted walls giving off this smell and it is getting worse and is now permeating the whole house.

I did a quick Google search and could see that it was a thing a few years ago whereby Valspar for a time stopped adding a mould inhibitor to their paint manufacturing process and this caused a hoo har at the time (unbeknownst to me or my husband) I believe my 12 litre pot is part of this faulty batch.

I am annoyed that I have spent money on the paint, more money on the decorator and will have to spend even more money getting it put right.

I wonder if Valspar have any suggestions on how they will help me out of the predicament I now find myself in?