Painting - 3 coats and it’s still not covering

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I’m painting the kitchen from bright green to brilliant white using using Dulux Kitchen Easycare and a roller, but after 3 coats it’s still patchy and not covering enough.

You can easily see where I’ve been cutting in before each coat, and then there is the hideous bright green that I’m covering.

Am I doing a something wrong or will it probably need yet another 1-3 coats?

Have you used an undercoat?

I know some paints say that you don't need to; but I'd have used an undercoat and maybe a primer to go from green to white, it's not an easy transition.

I wouldn't do the cutting in again as the paint is thicker there than the rest of the wall. Not sure how many more coats the rest will need

@TakeYourFinalPosition no I didn’t use an undercoat - oh dear! Do you think I should just keep on what I’m doing, or stop and buy some undercoat then continue? Thanks

@dementedpixie yes I was thinking that too

Did you do all the cutting in at once and then do the wall afterwards? Might be better cutting in a bit and then rolling when the paint is still wet and then you get less of a 'picture framing' effect

I only cut in on coat #1.

Looks like another coat should do it OP!

Yes I agree. Wouldn't cut in again. Just roller now up to the edges. Keep going. You'll get there with another one or two coats.

How long are you leaving between coats?

Getting full coverage with a roller is actually quite hard work, I find. It's no surprise that covering a strong colour like that is taking several coats. The hood news is that the paint itself is perfectly capable of covering the green - you can see that it has done so perfectly well where it's been applied with a brush.

You can probably cover it with one more coat if you lay it on quite thickly. Thinner coats with the roller loaded relatively sparingly - as it probably has been up to now - will give a better result in the end, but might take a couple more goes yet.