What's best way of finding the right paint colour ?

[mangos]

House we bought was painted in the last year but the seller left no left over paint cans to enable us to know what colour it is.
Ive started by buying tester pots of sandtex to try but so far no luck.

What course of action would you take?
(We have removed bits and have had a new door installed so just want to touch up)

[sc0tt]

mangos said:

House we bought was painted in the last year but the seller left no left over paint cans to enable us to know what colour it is.
Ive started by buying tester pots of sandtex to try but so far no luck.

What course of action would you take?
(We have removed bits and have had a new door installed so just want to touch up)

Take your house to b&q. They should be able to mix you the colour required.

HTH

[R E S T E C P]

They'll only need a single wall, not the entire house.

[mangos]

I have asked this be moved to gardens & diy ...

[AndrewEH1]

Is the paint thick enough to chip a piece off? Or maybe chip a little bit of brick or mortar off?

[mangos]

AndrewEH1 said:

Is the paint thick enough to chip a piece off? Or maybe chip a little bit of brick or mortar off?

I haven't tried that yet but could give it a try...

[Zodiac M]

This should narrow it down a bit..

http://www.thepaintshed.com/products/sandtex/sandt...

[Orchid1]

You might be able to buy a paint scanner and get the code to take to a paint supplier.

[Orchid1]

Apparently Dulux do a free app that can scan colours.

[R E S T E C P]

You could also print a selection of colours until you find one that matches when held up to the house, and take that for colour matching at B&Q.

Although when I've used the colour matching service before I was less than impressed. It was 90% accurate but that wasn't good enough...

[joshleb]

PH so surely you just pay someone else to knock down the whole house and rebuild it 5x bigger repaint the whole house.

[Foliage]

use a phone app to get the RAL code, its what I do at at work

[combat echo]

Sandtex ivory cream?