PPG Paint Reviews: Color Comparison & Painting Guide

If you’re planning on painting your home or covered porch railings, let me suggest the Timeless Pure White with primer as the best PPG exterior paint. This white acrylic paint can be matched with over 900 colors to create a UV resistant paint and primer with one-coat hide. PPG exterior paints can handle all weather conditions and resistant to mold, mildew, and algae.

We appreciate that this paint is available in both a one and five gallon bucket size. Each gallon can cover about 250 square feet, and since the primer is built-in, you won’t have to spend an entire season painting your home.

PPG Ultra-Hide is a popular choice for best interior paint for hiding flaws because it is a completely VOC-free paint choice. It goes on quickly and smoothly to cover-up any imperfections on the surface you’re painting.

It can be used for either walls or ceilings and is often the first choice for schools or other large facilities that will be completing the painting projects while there are students/guests present.

It’s important to note that this “Zero VOC” labeling only applies to the Pure White as it comes in its packaging. You can have the paint tinted with over 900 PPG paint color choices, but doing so may increase the VOC levels. No matter the color you choose, you can rest assured that the paint will still fall in the “Low VOC” category.

PPG Diamond is the best interior acrylic paint, with the ability to completely transform any room in your home to literally any color you can imagine. It has advanced leveling, so it’s even ideal with walls with surface imperfections.

PPG Diamond paint comes in flat, eggshell, satin, and semi-gloss sheen. Just make sure to carefully plan out your project, because depending on your color choice, sheen, and size, the price can quickly increase to over $100 per gallon. Unlike PPG Timeless, PPG Diamond also requires two coats of paint, which is also something to consider during your purchase.

PPG and Sherwin Williams were on relatively similar platforms until Sherwin Williams acquired Valspar paints and products. However, neither Sherwin Williams nor Valspar products are available at Home Depot, so unless you have an SW storefront near you, then PPG would probably be the better bet.

Similarly to PPG, Benjamin Moore also has storefront retail locations. The biggest differences come in their product drying times. Professional painters who work on large projects like cabinets or home exteriors prefer PPG’s Breakthrough over Benjamin Moore’s products because the drying time is extremely fast (about twenty minutes). For most projects, this means once you have finished the first coat, you can immediately start back at the beginning with a second coat.

PPG products are at Home Depot, and Valspar products are at Lowe's, so this is a classic one big box store product vs. another. We have found that Valspar's paints are slightly cheaper, but don’t promise the 1-coat coverage that PPG products do.

Glidden is actually made and manufactured by PPG, and they share a color palette of over 900 colors, all available at the Home Depot. Think of Glidden products as a budget-friendly alternative to PPG paints. See this comparison chart from the Home Depot for more information:

PPG stands for Pittsburgh Paint Glass Company. The company has been around for over 135 years. Although they have a history of selling fiberglass and other specialty materials, they have focused solely on their outstanding line of paints in recent years.

PPG was started in 1883 by Captain John Ford and John Pittcairn in Pennsylvania. It is now run by chairman and CEO Michael H. McGarry and has 150 manufacturing locations worldwide.

This will depend on the specific PPG product that you buy, but PPG has paints that are compatible with all of the following:

Drying time will vary based on your location, temperature, and relative humidity. In general, most PPG paints are dry to the touch after 1 hour and ready for another coat after 4 hours.