Contractors - Painting Interior walls

[Karen Margrave]

After drywall is installed, what do you do to prep your walls for painting? It seems to me that paint doesn't go on as evenly as it once did. I'm not sure if it's the drwyall has been reformulated, the paper, or the paint. However; we've used different painting subcontractors and it seems to always have a less than perfect finish that you can pick up when looking at an angle. Or am I being OCD? 

What is your process? Brand of paint you use? 

[Peter B.]

I am assumming you have primed the new drywall first. We generally spray and back roll with a 3/4" nap roller. It also helps if you tint your primer close to your finish color. Then we repeat with the finish.  Just keep the walls wet and you shouldn't have coverage issues. 

We use all brands. I have about 100 gallons in mixed brand paint. (we have a couple large contractors that give us their leftover 5's we then mix to gether to make one color). I have about 200 of Bunker hill I got for 4 bucks a gallon. (A local hardware store switched brands and dumped all their stock)  We have used everything and still have no brand loyalty. Just price loyalty.