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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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  • Paints are part of my work, water based paints smell much less, the brush or roller can be cleaned in water, oil based paints ( VOC) use white spirit to clean the brush. All paints have some smell but the oil based smells a lot more,  emulsion is normally water based, it’s just the wood paint that can be either, I generally use water based as VOC gives me a headache. 

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  • Paints are part of my work, water based paints smell much less, the brush or roller can be cleaned in water, oil based paints ( VOC) use white spirit to clean the brush. All paints have some smell but the oil based smells a lot more,  emulsion is normally water based, it’s just the wood paint that can be either, I generally use water based as VOC gives me a headache. 

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