BEHR Reviews

As a general contractor I've used numerous brands of paint over the years to include Behr which up until about 2022 was a decent choice for lower budget projects. Something changed, not sure what but after 2022 we had nothing but problems with Behr paint costing 10s of thousands of dollars to repair. The main problem has been blistering and peeling of all Behr products that claim to include paint and primer in one. Any of these products to include both interior and exterior in all grades fail to bond to the substrate leaving air filled pillows or paint that peels off in sheets. They will tell you that the surface has been improperly prepared but as a professional of over 20 years I can assure you that is not the case. When the issue first presented itself I called several large painting and coatings companies that I've worked with and they reported the exact same experiences. The Behr product line is no longer a reputable product

Over the years it's obvious the paint is becoming thinner and thinner, your paint used to be A-one, now it's just the same as all the other known brands, no doubt a boardroom money decision gone wrong.

While I purchased Behr paint several times over the past 35 years primarily to match an existing paint color. However, once introduced to Sherwin ** and Benjamin **, Behr’s impression as an acceptable mid-level paint drops dramatically. And, once you start appreciating the value of a quality product, there’s no going back. But worse, the company behaves like a cut rate operation through their failure to maintain their websites. They have multiple primary sites for consumers and “pros” but neither function properly. I visited 5 of these websites attempting to get information on the formula for my now retired paint color and every one of them offered completely non-functional options for furthering customer searches.

Prepare to work twice as much if you buy the Interior Behr Marquee, it's like trying to spread a mix of Contact glue and paint, you need to press very hard vertically, horizontally and vertically again to make sure you don't miss any spot (I'm an experienced painter), I never saw that! Took me 40% more time and energy than a good paint, just to conclude that the One Coat claim is hard to obtain and more of a sales pitch. The result is low quality, so I need to put on a second coat!!! It smells like ammonia so I won't recommend it.

House Paint BEHR. After 3 coats of Paint no longer covers the House Low-grade Paint!!!! Tried 3 different grades. Used to be a good brand. Tried painting the bathroom white on white with enamel looks horrible. Did it three times. Tried painting the ceiling twice. It looks horrible. Going to switch to flat to see if that helps. Going to have to do the whole ceiling over spotty-looking. Doubled my labor time minimum. I did the hallway three times and I can still see splat is out the bathroom door with the enamel white covering white.

I have used other paints but Behr was the best I have ever used. We painted interior and exterior paint with primer and all preformed better than expected. We used interior stain and exterior stain and exterior enamel with sprayer and over performed.

I'm not impressed. I recently bought the Behr concrete sealer for my basement. I clean the bare concrete with concrete cleaner, rinsed well and let dry like the instructions say to do. Then I put down two coats. It looked nice at first. Then we had a storm a month later and my basement took on some water and the Behr sealer came off! It was like the sealer won't work if water gets on it. What a waste of my time and money!!! Unfortunately I do not have my receipt anymore because it looked good till the water got to it.

First complaint I have is their plastic paint cans. After two uses of a gallon of paint I'm absolutely unable to re-secure the lid properly. Any further shaking to keep the paint properly mixed is going to cause spillage. And obviously storage is going to be a problem as it's going to dry out. I'm painting a wooden gazebo and finding that it takes many strokes to cover the brushstrokes created as well as the wood itself. Then, touching the dried paint with one's finger leaves a white residue which can then only begotten off by rubbing a cloth or one's sleeve over the area. The frustration attempting to close the can is in itself a good reason to never buy BEHR paint again!

Painted concrete stairs with Behr granite grip 2 months ago. Paint started peeling couple weeks ago, especially after rain. Stairs were thoroughly cleaned / scrapped before painting, applied 2 layers as recommended.

Painted my house 10 years ago (at least). Went with a better grade of BEHR's elastomeric exterior paint. Easy to apply and easy to clean up. And it's held up beautifully. I've had to wash it on occasion using fairly warm water and a scrub brush with no ill effects. Now I prepped this place in a professional manner (over 3 weeks) and I applied a sealer and a primer over the CMU's before painting but in the end, it looked great - and it still does 10 years later. All the prep work and the sealer and primer helped make the job a success, but the final coat is what everybody sees and BEHR's elastomeric was worth every penny.