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Anyone have any experience with low or no VOC paints?

TheCatWoman

I need to do quite a bit of decorating, and one of the rooms desperate for a make over is my bedroom. I don't want to wake up wheezy and with a headache and for all my food to taste of paint for the next week until the smell wears off.

Has any used low VOC paint, what was the coverage and finish like, what brands did you use?

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  • I always use Dulux trade paints. The matt ones are low VOC with such a good coverage and colour that it's the favourite of professional painters. In tests, it scores much more highly than other paints in terms of colour saturation and the smell is minimal. I had the whole of my house painted in two goes last autumn, a week apart, and had no bad reactions. Even the satin woodwok paint, which will set me off, was tolerable. I can't speak for gloss paints as I avoid them because of the texture and smell.

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  • I always use Dulux trade paints. The matt ones are low VOC with such a good coverage and colour that it's the favourite of professional painters. In tests, it scores much more highly than other paints in terms of colour saturation and the smell is minimal. I had the whole of my house painted in two goes last autumn, a week apart, and had no bad reactions. Even the satin woodwok paint, which will set me off, was tolerable. I can't speak for gloss paints as I avoid them because of the texture and smell.

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