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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paint and air out the rooms.  Your kids will probably get a ton more VOC's from your car - sitting in it, gassing it up, and whatever goes into your house from an attached garage.  Also your nail polish remover, unless you go outside to use it.[/quote]

Actually (OP here), believe it or not, that is not true. And I'm not saying that to be argumentative with you at all - I'm saying it because it's what is really getting to me. I've done a bit of research aiming to basically reassure myself that I can use this paint, figuring I'd see just that, but in fact, most of our exposures to VOCs come from the home. Indoor air is much more polluted than outdoor air, and nine percent of all VOC's in our environment come from home paints. I definitely did not know that.

I'm frustrated with DH but it was just a mistake. I'm taking it out here instead of on his ass. :) I should share some responsibility, because, long story short, our long-time paint store Fragers had that fire. So I looked for other places to get benjaman moore paint (we like it and have used it twice before) but the locations were inconvenient. DH was like "good news, Home Depot can tint any paint to match BM colors and they can do their Behr brand as no-voc." Okay, sold. So we go that route, paint is actually a little bit cheaper. But it turns out DH has purchased paint and primer in one, which we didn't need and cannot remember if he specifically asked for the no-voc. So yeah. Trying to be cool, mistakes happen and all, and he feels bad, so I'm not mad, I'm just frustrated. Anyway, the maybe bigger issue is that unlike Natura paints, which remain no-VOC even after adding tint, all bets are off with other brands. So even if DH had gotten the no-voc, once the custom paint was mixed, they don't tell you, but they're not "no voc" anymore. The brand we got definitely falls into this category.

So, while we scrapped plans for today, I think what we'll do is keep the whites (ceiling, trim) as is, and replace the tints with the natura. The heat wave is going to break this weekend so we can probably leave windows open a lot next week.

So frustrating. I know it's not completely his fault but a simple phone call since we'd talked about it so much might have been good to do. Appreciate this space to vent. The compromise will put us out maybe 150 more, not 400, and we'll have lost one day of work. I feel okay with the compromise.

Thanks for the paint advice and free marital therapy, as always, DCUM! :) (I'm not really into that smiley face yet, still faking it some. Believable?) [/quote]

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