RE: [GBlist] Sherwin Williams paint question

[David Bergman <bergman@cyberg.com>]

Brenda Norman wrote:
>The Benjamin Moore Eco-Spec works great with the lighter colours, but with
>darker colours (4's and 5's on their old colour selectors) it was
>impossible to maintain - all one had to do was touch it and a chalky mark
>appeared.  We eventually had to cover it with Cloverdale's low VOC paint
>(only available in Canada and Washington state) which was the highest
>performance major brand low VOC paint we could find for the darker colours.
>  To be fair to Benjamin Moore it is in their literature (if you looked hard
>enough) that their paint isn't recommended with the darker pigments.
>Brenda

I was also told (by  the local paint store and, I think, by B-M as well) 
that it didn't make sense to use Eco-Spec on deep colors because the 
pigment that is added in brings the paint practically back up to the VOC 
level of the normal paint.

David Bergman
David Bergman Architect/Fire & Water Lighting + Furniture
bergman@cyberg.com    http://www.cyberg.com
t 212 475 3106    f 212 677 7291


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