Glidden Ceiling Paint
Ceilings are notoriously tough to paint evenly - it's difficult to get every last little bit covered and easy to miss spots because you can only see it when the light catches it just right. This paint insures you get it right the first time: it goes on pink, but dries white. As long as the ceiling's solid pink when you're done, you know you've done a great job!
We had an old, dirty ceiling, which my wife attempted to paint using a mini-roller. It didn't look right, and I figured it was messed up anyway, so I tried to touch it up and even out the texture. I was left with a ceiling that was technically white, but looked like military camouflage when morning light would hit it at an angle. So, with numerous assurances from the Home Depot paint guy, I bought a gallon of Glidden's paint for our 180 square foot ceiling.
Though my dining room ceiling initially looked like it was soaked in Pepto-Bismol, it dried a glorious, flat, even white overnight. It goes on like any paint (I was using a very deep-nap roller, as I had to go over that heavy texture) and it covers nice, just like regular latex paint. The most difficult aspect of using this paint is overcoming the feeling in the back of your mind that the folks at the Glidden factory have duped you into painting your home pink.
-- Doug Barnard
Glidden Ceiling Paint
$32
(1.85 gallon "Quick Roll" container)
Available from Amazon
Also $80
(four 1-gallon cans)*
Available from Aubuchon Hardware
Manufactured by ICI Paints
[*If you would like to purchase one 1-gallon can for $16.99, it appears you must go into Home Depot in person. Also, I contacted Glidden to find out how the paint's "EZ Track™ Technology" works. Here's their response: "It is a temporary dye. Unfortunately, we are not allowed legally to discuss specific technology." Many readers suggested the color-changing "magic" may be due to a similar mechanism as these disappearing colored bubbles. - sl]
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miike
the house is 120+ years old. plaster on wood lath. 6 years ago i had a 'proferssional painter come to do some work. the bathroom ceiling was never ever a problem. this guy said he did a light sanding and repainted the ceiling and wood work. a year or so later the paint started to flake off the ceiling.
by now it looks like hell. it will need a scuffing at the least, and im sure some kind of sanding to even it out.
is there a paint that will stick? is there some kind or chemical reaction going on between the plaster and paint?
will i need to have the ceiling sheetrocked and then painted?
barb
Do not use the pink to white Glidden ceiling paint. I just used the pnk to white Glidden ceiling paint in my bathroom. Do not use this paint!!! It takes 30 days to cure - that means everytime the bathroom gets steamy it will turn pink again for 30 days. I would like to know my ceiling painting is finished but I do not want to paint my walls until I know I am hapy with the ceiling. I cannot repaint it for 30 days to get rid of the pink because another application turns the paint pink again for 30 days. If the pink lasts for only 30 days, I feel lI will be lucky. This is horrible.. I wanted to put Kilz on it and seal it, but the Kilz turns it pink again. I would much rather be looking for spots I missed today and painting them with regular ceiling paint than having my bathroom project completion put on hold for a month because of some stupid gimmick paint! I just called Glidden and they said dont worry - it will be cured in 30 days - just keep it well bventilated since we will be using a shower in the room that will make the room steamy.
barb
HI This is my second post. It has been 30 days plus since I put the pink to white ceiling paint in my bathroom. We started using the bathroom after 30 days and the pink to white paint turns beige when there is a lot of humidity in the bathroom. So I just tried Kilz over it and now it is pink again. Fortunately I am doing a test spot, but I am thinking this will cost me a professional to come in and scrape off the ceiling finish and re texture the ceiling and start all over. Quite an expensive issue because Glidden has a faulty product on the market.