New laws push paints to be eco-friendly and low on odor, but do they work as well?
by Gwendolyn Bounds
Recently I repainted a wall in my house. As always, I put down drop cloths and opened windows to vent the headache-inducing odors. But this time I encountered a first: There were no odors.
I was using a “zero-VOC” paint from Home Depot called Freshaire. It's one of the newest entrants in a fast-growing segment of the $21 billion paint and coatings market: paint containing few or no volatile organic compounds. VOCs are solvents that disperse into the air as paint dries. They've long been used to help paint spread evenly and adhere to surfaces, among other performance properties.
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