Comments on: Freshaire Choice: A Zero-VOC Paint To Be Sold At Home Depot

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:08:35 +0000

do you guys not know of pittsburg paints? Pure performance line 0 voc’s, first paint to get the green seal and was way before benjamin moore with the whole going green. great paint, you should def. try it

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:55:26 +0000

I have had the same problem with using paint that was suppose to be for hospitals. You know..non toxic..It was a nightmare!

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:07:53 +0000

Glad I read your comment. I am having the same issue with the paint odor. I am not a paint expert but after reading the ingredients one might ask is this truly latex paint. Usually top of list is the bulk ingredient from my understanding. So then might this be considered vinyl paint?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:05:04 +0000

I find this very strange that there are 52 comments on a paint product yet more popular topics arent getting near that kind of attention/comments. There are alot of brand names getting tossed around here and blatent company reps. For anyone reading this becareful, I smell something fishy and its not the paint. I have used FAC and it was fine for me, of course I am not a Mythic rep so maybe that makes using it worse lol

By: Ginny

Ginny — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:46:47 +0000

After researching to find the safest and healthiest paint, we painted our bedroom with Freshaire Choice Paint over TWO MONTHS AGO and it is still uninhabitable. The odor was/is so horrible and strong that we had to seal the room off. We received a bad batch of paint and no one with Glidden cares– not even people at the top. The rep said that he would test the paint that we returned, but he never picked it up and nearly a month later it was destroyed. The Home Depot has done everything in their power to help us. They offered us Kilz, oil-based primer and Behr, primer/paint to apply over the smelly Freshaire paint, at no charge. It didn’t help –nothing helps…the odor damage is permanent. Experts advise that the walls and ceiling will have to be removed and replaced! What a nightmare!!
Would love to hear from anyone who also had a bad experience with Freshaire Choice Paint.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:34:48 +0000

I used freshair to paint my whole house using a total of 7 different colors and the primer and I love everyone. It’s been a years since completing and I couldn’t be happier. The paint has held up well and I have a dog and a two year old. Not sure why other had problems, I didn’t experience it. True you have to use two coats, but that has been my experience with many other brands I’ve used too. The two dark colors i used required 3 coats, but my aunt just painted her kitchen a dark color also with a different brand and it took her 5 coats to get good coverage and true color. The odor was minimal, but not completly absent. I will defently be using freshair for all my future indoor painting projects.

By: charles

charles — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:12:26 +0000

Can I mask out VOCs on a recently painted wall, by painting over it with a non-VOC paint? Will the new coat shield against the VOCs ‘gassing’ through?
Or do I need to strip the VOC paints before painting over?

By: Rowellric

Rowellric — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:27:39 +0000

Speaking of these low VOC paints and you “greenies” I wonder exactly how many more processes and how much more emissions it takes to make this stuff. Do we save your air and polute everybody elses in the process?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:09:26 +0000

I actually just used the BON-CC-41 when I was painting our new house. It worked great. It didn’t leave behind any odors! I did use latex paint. I had some of my friends over the next night and one of them mentioned that there was no odor! They were all surprised. I had another friend over that had painted their house a few weeks ago and they still had odor problems. I am very pleased with this product! I also made sure to leave the windows open while I was painting, I think that might have helped too!

http://www.adbio.com/odor/uses/odor-control-paint-2.htm

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:34:42 +0000

Seems like too many complaints about FreshAire to make it a reliable choice if a major concern is paint odor. I’m wondering if anyone is familiar with a product called BON-CC-41 made by BioWorld Products of Visalia, California? Their website says it is a “unique concentrated liquid formulation that eliminates offensive odors at the source.” They also say it works very well with latex paints but not as well with oil-based paints.