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Paints & stains: look beyond the brand.(Buyers guide)

Consumer Reports

| June 01, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Some 85 percent of homeowners use the same brand of house paint over and over again without even considering other brands. Sound familiar? Yet our tests of exterior paints and stains show that you could be selling your home short.

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Frequent reformulations of paints and stains mean those that held up well for you last time might not make the grade this time around. That's why we remove from our Ratings any product that has been reformulated and is not in stores and begin testing again with the new version.

Indeed, our current paint lineup doesn't include some top-selling brands such as Ace, Behr, and Benjamin Moore for that ...

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