Aura Paints still smells one week after painting
john_ertw
14 years ago
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Musty Smell in ONE room of new home (after pressure washing)
Comments (17)Since I last posted, I've narrowed a few things down. One of the rooms that was affected (there were 2 rooms total), has been fixed. The french drain I installed around the perimeter of the front of the house, where water was creeping under the foundation, seems to have fixed the issue in the larger room. There is now no more musty smell in there. However, the other room, which is a "closet" that backs up directly to a bathroom, still has the odor, which has actually gotten worse. The smell is definitely partially sweet, and partially musty. I've cut the drywall all the way around the room to see if there is any signs of water damage, dead animals, etc inside of the walls. Interestingly enough, the inside of the walls that butt up to other rooms, smell fine. The walls that have concrete on the other side, have the odor present (perimeter walls). The only two things I haven't addressed yet are the roof (I'd have to cut the ceiling open because there is no attic access at this point for how low the roof pitches). The other thing would be the foundation (slab). I have fairly expensive laminate flooring and underlayment in that room, which would have to be removed, and the floor would have to be inspected for dampness. However, given the circumstances, it's been narrowed down quite a bit. The room has 4 walls (2 butt up to exterior concrete and 2 others butt up to interior rooms), a standard hollow core wood door, a West-facing window, and a drywall knockdown ceiling. There is only two piece of furniture in the room, which are bookcases. One is MDF (still wrapped in plastic to hold it together before I bolt it in), and the other is pine wood, also wrapped in thin plastic to protect it. I've just put two large shop fans, a big air purifier, an ionizer, and ozone generator all in the room with a big bucket of damprid (although humidity levels in that room are only 49% in south florida, which is fairly average). I've also sprayed half a can of lysol air spray into the room. I'll let you guys know how that works out, and hopefully we can figure it out. and ESMAN - let me know your notes as well. Thanks....See MoreLow VOC still smells
Comments (13)Thanks. There's no no-VOC paint available here. Anyway, wouldn't the tint add VOC's? Or are you fortunate enough to also have no-VOC tints available? The first coat dried in a day. I know that doesn't mean it's fully cured but it was touch dry and stopped smelling. Even if there was something different when we did the second coat (temp, humidity) should the drying time increase so much? I mean it's been four months. Makes a joke of going to the expense of using low VOC paint! Even regular paint is usually better than that unless you use the cheap nasty stuff. Any thoughts on the over-saturation that was mentioned to us? We were led to believe that if that's the problem you don't observe any improvement at all so we thought we could rule out that possibilty. Any thoughts on solvent-lock? We've saw that once somewhere so we checked for the tell-tale distinctive bubbles and there are none. The texture looks okay so we thought we could rule out solvent-lock. But since it's tint with solvent contained within a paint with very low solvent is it at all possible that you could have some sort of solvent-lock in the tint but without affecting the surface of the paint? On second thoughts that case of solvent-lock was accompanied by a smell that never ever ever got better. Our walls have improved a lot. It's just taking so long! If large quantities of pigment can cause so much trouble maybe the manufacturer should recommend that low VOC not be tinted dark colours. We didn't buy low VOC just for the sake of spending more money. When we've previously used low VOC the room has been fine the next day. With the darker colour we were prepared for it to take a few days, maybe a week or two. But not four months. One other thing, we were told that if drying is delayed then the paint will not be as strong. Would this affect washability? Would this affect whether we can stick those stick-on hooks on it? Nice to hear there's no-VOC available, I suppose we'll get it here too eventually....See MoreAura paint review
Comments (17)I wanted to update with further adventures with Aura paint. I just finished doing our dining room in Eggshell in Aura paint. The top half is Yarmouth Blue and the bottom half Van Deasian (not spelled right, it's another BM historical color--a dark blue). Both colors went on top of a medium green wall color and some new drywall. One coat all around, even over the drywall. The paint looks great and I, again, thought it was easy to work with. I am especially impressed that the dark blue looks so good with just one coat. I did the ceiling in a 25 percent of Yarmouth, but used Eco-Spec as the paint store said they could not mix that particular color in Aura. I found the Eco-Spec a bit more difficult to work with and it did not cover as well as the Aura, in my opinion. Catherine...See MoreAura paint-anyone else disappointed?
Comments (24)I painted my bathroom and bedroom in the Aura paint. It covered nicely and didn't drip or splatter. Where I had problems was with how quickly it dries. In the bathroom with the relatively small room and 9 overhead cans, the paint pan would dry up and every now and then a piece of dried paint would come up from paint pan liner onto my roller. It was a double whammy because if I kept too much paint in the pan, it got gummy and if I kept just a little bit, it dried up and I got the paint pieces on the roller. But on a regular 8 foot high wall, it was very easy to touch up afterwards - but again you can only roll over the same area no more than twice or you risk picking up some already set paint. In the bedroom, I had some major problems with roller marks. The walls were 13 feet high at the center going down to 8 foot. I had a terrible time painting such a large area with out making roller marks. In some spots I just gave up after 2-3 attempts at fixing them. The matte paint isn't matte, it's more like eggshell so while it's nice and smooth it shows roller marks on a high wall when direct sunlight shines on it. Fortunately, once the blinds and drapes were installed, I couldn't see the marks as much! I prefer a basic flat matte paint that doesn't show roller marks and touch ups or drywall imperfections. I'd say this paint is not for an amateur who paints relatively slowly or who has really high walls. I have done alot of painting over the years, and have had these issues when painting any eggshell type paint, but wasn't planing on having these issues when I chose a matte finish....See Morejohn_ertw
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