Painting feedback

As is my daughterly duty, I went over one evening last week to help my dad use the low-VOC paint I recommended to paint his fence. Although he said he did spend about $2-3 a gallon more than the paint he was looking at in Home Depot, he also mentioned that it was a high quality paint, he could hardly smell it at all, and that it seemed to be particularly easy to wash off his skin after a day with a paint splashing roller. I had similar results with the goldish-orange low-VOC paint I recently used for my office. On a cold day, I was able to paint in a small room with the door shut and the window only opened a crack. The paint smell wasn’t at all noticeable in the rest of the house.

Since low-VOC paint is a recommendation toward attaining a LEED green building rating for a project and is recommended by the Master Painter’s Institute, the demand for low-VOC paint is increasing. The knowledgeable Sherwin Williams rep mentioned that about 10% of all large local commercial projects are requesting low-VOC paints (up from virtually no requests just a few years ago). These include in particular almost all paint requested for UC and the area hospitals.

Personal testimonials and professional opinions are in and going low-VOC with your next paint job is highly recommended!