Earthbornpaints Reviews

I order Earthborn paint through a third

I order Earthborn paint through a third party I was told order paint on the Wednesday and will be deliverd free on theThursday ops four weeks on Thursday I could walk from Scotland to England quicker email customer service no answer would not recommend

Firstly I ve used the clay paint for 15 years plus

Firstly I ve used the clay paint for what must be twenty years now and if the walls are finished properly prior to painting it is about the best wall paint you will use The coverage is great and the finish has a depth and quality that is the best I have ever seen however it can have issues especially if your walls have previously had other finishes used I work and live in North Wales and most properties have no DPC and are stone built with lime mortar So over the years crap builders have left their mark in that cementitious products are everywhere and applied surface finishes trying to prevent damp tracking to the surface finish inside are the order of the day Obviously do your best to isolate these issues or better still remove them and replace with the original building products A good tip here if it is just a previous finish which is causing problems ie the paint won t stick or is reacting to anything you apply is to use the earthborn wall glaze to coat all surface areas first two coats usually suffice don t follow the tin instructions but dilute to 25 product and 75 water That should sort that problem Do not use PVA on these type of solid wall buildings It does not breath whereas the glaze does So now to the interior wood eggshell finish Some 15 years ago I bought quite a lot for a job I was undertaking and quite frankly it was crap wouldn t cover well dragged under the brush and I use Purdy brushes No better with a roller either as it just doesn t stick to the work and is patchy if you go back over it it takes it back off the only way is to overload the roller and then all you get is a patchy finish with roller edge marks Try and de-nib between coats and it rubs straight through to the base coat great if you want the worn shabby sheik look I wasted loads of money o that job and guess what Earthborn tried to tell me I was doing it wrong Well fast forward to the present and I knew that they had said they had improved it no 17 but honestly I couldn t see it suckered in to try it again it was just as vile to use as it was before One further issue is that no matter how well you stir it prior to use it starts to separate back into its primary colour palate as you are using it Believe me I can paint and I d defy anyone to to get a better finish than I could get perhaps a sprayed finish I can t testify to that as my work situations just don t allow for this method If you are not a professional or even an excellent amateur don t go there Finally a previous post has knocked Celtic sustainables I have delt with this company for over 10 years probably 15 and they have been nothing but fantastic in every respect I can only assume that the problem was referred to Earth Born who I have to say really should listen far more carefully to the end user guide then if they are doing something wrong and believe people who tell them there s a problem with their product

It might be all planet friendly but it s just not fit for purpose

The paint appears normal and goes on nicely The finish is slightly chalky When the paint is dry it forms a rubbery skin on the wall If you dent or knick it it comes off in big shreds of rubbery skin Repainting to touch it up it bubbles all over and looks terrible I m going to have to re-do the whole room The other problem is that the paint tin is of really poor quality The rim breaks up into rusty bits that then drop into the paint left in the tin This happened within a month Avoid

Absolutely dreadful paint

Absolutely dreadful paint Bought the paint for wooden indoor furniture Firstly the tin was almost impossible to open even with the paint tin tool Colour Puddling looked exactly as on the colour chart when painted and still wet I wanted a dark navy colour but as it dried it changed to a Wedgwood blue colour and looked nothing like the colour chart At this point it looked patchy which I expected after a first coat The following day I painted a second coat expecting the colour to darken and become even which it didn t The second coat was difficult to apply on top of the chalky first coat and the paint dragged Once dry the colour was still the same blue colour nowhere even close to navy To make matters worse it was still patchy and now showed the brush stroke marks too 16 hours of painting over 2 days and a terrible result I now need to buy more paint that will actually dry as navy and spend more time painting Wish I had stuck to Farrow Ball which I have always used in the past Will never buy from this company again

AVOID

We followed all the instructions to the letter but the paint has not stuck to the plaster has gone rubbery and is now peeling off - it only went on a month ago The eco credentials are good but it is just not up to the job AVOID

Terrible Paint DO NOT BUY IT

We purchased White clay and eggshell and also Hideyhole grey clay and eggshell for the inside walls of our house The paint cost a small fortune at nearly 1000 or 90 for a 5L pot Each of the pots of white clay wall paint had rubbery lumps in it No matter how much our decorator mixed it the lumps just wouldn t disappear When they rolled it onto the wall they had to go back over every wall by hand and pick lumps of paint off the wall A terrible paint The white eggshell is terrible too as it dries very streaky regardless of how many coats allied and literally started to wipe off after a few weeks But the Hideyhole dark grey paint is the worst Our decorator applied two undercoats and two top coats and it was still very patchy and streaky We sent pictures to the Earthborn technical person and he blamed the application and not the paint surprise surprise Their advice was exactly what the decorator did with the first two coats so we ve decided to bin all 1000 worth of Earthborn paint as you can t return after 28days We are going with Dulux instead and cannot recommend Earthborn

Another Farral ball type rip off

Another Farral ball rip off Covers ok or as good as the main brands but as with F B paint you can t touch it in Painted my house last week few scuffs since then so touched them in and the whole house will need repainting In short covers nearly as good as dulux costs 3x more does not touch in once its dried Match their colour and have it mixed in a brand that has wear an tear built into their product So wished this stuff would work aswell From a disappointed customer Cheers x

AVOID CRAP COMPANY

Good Paint CRAP Customer Services Read in conjunction with review of Celtic Sustainables In summary I have used Earthborn paints for several years and been a advocate on there behalf This time however they in my book been useless The details are in my review on Celtic Sustainables so I don t want to repeat the long saga but in essence Earthborn did nothing apart from blame me for the paint job gone wrong The outcome was that it was not my fault but with the machine used to mix paints by Celtic Absolutely no help we re Earthborn at all