Eco-Friendly Paint in Mechanicsbug, PA: What Is It and Is It Worth the Money?
When you are looking to paint or re-paint your home, one of the biggest things you will need to take into consideration is what kind of paint you will use.
One kind of paint that is increasing in popularity is eco-friendly paint, which has numerous benefits, but comes at a cost… because it almost always costs more than paint that is not deemed to be eco-friendly.
With that being the case, let us look at and consider what eco-friendly paint is, and if it is worth the money.
Advantage: No Or Low VOC’s
Most commercial paint that you find on the market releases VOC’s, also known as volatile organic compounds, which present numerous health hazards to people exposed to them.
Exposure to VOC’s can cause problems like nausea, headaches, skin problems, and eventually things like lung irritation and long term damage to the liver, kidney, and central nervous system.
Additionally, the foul odors that generally come about when one is painting with paints that have VOC’s are so very powerful that it is often necessary to wear protective gear or have all of the windows open just to do one’s best to avoid them, as well as air out the room or rooms being painted.
Better Ingredients
Methylene chloride, glycol, formaldehyde, and benzene are among the ingredients that you will find in commercially available paint, and they are not found in the more eco-friendly paints that are on the market.
Just for starters, methylene chloride can be found on the Center for Disease Control’s website with a warning that it might cause loss of consciousness and death.
Compare this with the kind of ingredients that you would typically find in an eco-friendly paint — you might find things like water, vegetable oils, plant dyes, and minerals.
Consider milk paint — it usually has three ingredients being milk, lime, and pigment that is added for some color — can you even consider how this would compare with a more commercial paint whose ingredients are linked to cancer and outright death?
Greater Color Retention
When it comes to painting the interior or even the exterior of your home, one of the general rules that seem to stay true is that if you can avoid doing it too often, it’s better than if you have to go back and repaint every few years.
One major contributing factor to this is the extent to which paint retains its color — and while it is true that all paint does eventually fade, it has been found that quite a lot of eco-friendly paint has a tendency to retain the color that it has for a longer period of time than similarly tinted commercial paint.
Bottom Line: It’s Worth It
When you consider the upfront cost of just a gallon of eco-friendly paint, you might think that it just cannot possibly be worth it and want to go for one of the more affordable commercial brands that seems a better deal at the outset.
The truth of the matter is that when you consider all of the costs that come with commercially available paint that isn’t stated as explicitly, such as the need to get protective gear and the possibility of having your health, as well as the health of your family, compromised, it really isn’t worth it.
When you add the fact that eco-friendly paints often have greater color retention, you are looking at a paint job that will not have to be repeated only a few years down the line, and that is an impressive and good thing.
If you enjoy this type of blog, please find and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/justaddpaint and check out our website at www.justaddpaint.net
Just Add Paint is a residential house painting company specializing in customer homes and painted kitchen cabinets. They are Superior Service Award Winners on Angieslist.com for the last 6 years with an A rating from close to 130 independent reviews, and they maintain a 5-STAR RATING on Porch.com, Houzz.com, Google.com, Homeadvisor.com, and Yelp.com.
