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I have a question about no VOC paint. I've recently purchased an Interior Acrylic Latex paint with under 200 VOCs and I have heard that paints give off VOC's well into a few years later, after applying. I bought the wrong type of paint and I wanted a paint with no VOC. So my question to everyone was that if I used that paint with the higher VOC volume, and then I painted over it with the VOC free paint, will the VOCs from the first type of paint be safely hidden and covered by the NON-VOC paint?
Last edited by BlueEyedStorm; 10-22-2009 at 02:06 PM..
Reason: wrong spelling
I read that they can give off VOCs a few years later. But maybe they are referring to high VOC paints. Maybe after a certain VOC amount, they can still give off VOCs.
Shouldn't be a problem how? I mean I am not going to use a primer because I am not going to be here for longer than a year so it's ok if it doesn't last long. The only thing I am concerned are those VOC chemicals. So do you think painting over it with non-VOC paint will help reduce the VOC's drastically?
Do you know how I can edit my post? I wrote NOC instead of VOC.
Thanx for the information. So in the article it says that it's 'estimated that less than 50% of the VOC's in latex paint (applied to a surface) are emitted in the first year.' So with the paint I already have, is in between 150-200 VOC's, so therefore for the first year, about 100 VOC's would be released right?
I cannot say for sure. But guessing from the 50% that is released for a year, maybe 30%.
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