Have you ever considered how much space paint takes up in your home? Beyond fashions and trends, ecological paints help to have a healthier home. Although its use is especially indicated for people with allergies and respiratory problems, its characteristics make it ideal for all members of the family. Do not stay with the desire to know all the Advantages of painting your home with ecological paints.
The ecological paints respect the environment and are sustainable, since they take care of natural resources, consume as little energy as possible for their manufacture and do not pollute. In addition, they contribute to having a healthier home because they contain fewer substances that can be toxic or irritating.
Why paint our home with an ecological paint?
One of the main characteristics of ecological paints is that they are breathable, that is, they allow the walls of our home to breathe and prevent moisture from concentrating inside. In fact, having a high degree of humidity at home causes the appearance of fungi, allergies and respiratory conditions. For this reason, this type of paint is a guarantee of hygiene, contributes to a healthier home and is kept in good condition for longer.
In addition, conventional paints and varnishes contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine, sulfur, etc., which are gaseous at room temperature. These components have different degrees of toxicity, so most of them must be considered as contaminants of the air we breathe.
It must be taken into account that in a home, the volatile organic components of the paint are added to those emitted by cleaning and personal hygiene products, carpets, furniture, etc. Therefore, choosing a paint that contains a low level of VOCs will minimize the presence of these substances and will contribute to having a healthier home.
How to know if a painting is ecological?
To know if a painting is ecological, you just have to look on the container if it has the European ecolabel Ecolabelwhich guarantees that the paint is of good quality and meets a series of environmental criteria:
- Lower energy consumption in the production of paint
- Low content of volatile organic compounds
- Fewer harmful substances
- It is breathable
- High opacity/paint coverage and performance
- it is washable
For all these reasons, the paints with the Ecolabel certification have a guaranteed quality. However, among traditional paints you can find very cheap options with little hiding power and difficult to apply.
What ecological paint to choose?
When buying an ecological paint we must look at:
- VOC content. It can vary from 5 to 200 gr/l, generating less risk to health the smaller the amount.
- Solid content by volume. The concentration varies from 25% to 45%, although the higher the percentage of solids, the fewer volatile components the paint has.
- Performance. High performance means that we need less paint, reducing the total amount of toxins on our walls.
In this sense, BX-500 ColoryPaint Nature by Baixens is an ecological paint that is ideal for painting and decorating walls, ceilings, facades and light wells. Among its main features are:
- Matte finish
- good workability
- breathable
- excellent coverage
- anti-splash
- multi-adherent
- deodorized
- Optimum washability
- Fast drying (30 minutes)
- Easy repainting (after 3/4 hours)
- Good performance (between 8 and 12 m2/l)
- White color that can be colored with dyes
- Indoor and outdoor use
- It has an Ecolabel Seal
How to paint our home with an ecological paint?
Painting our home with ecological paint is as simple as when using conventional paint, as can be seen in the following video:
As a summary, the steps that have been followed are detailed below.
- Prepare the walls. First of all, the condition of the walls will have to be checked. In this specific case, there was a mold problem due to a leak that was solved by applying RX-526 Clean Energy from Baixens to sanitize the area, since it is a microorganism cleaner with a whitening and anti-mold effect. You just have to spray the cleaner on the mold, wait 20 minutes for it to act and rinse with water to neutralize it.
- Color the painting. To give a gray tint to the ecological paint BX-500 Colorypaint Naturea few drops of concentrated universal dye have been added Xpert Paint Color Black by Baixens. To do this, several drops will be added and it will be stirred with a mixing rod and the drill at low speed until the desired color is obtained. It is advisable to weigh the paint and record the drops that have been added in case more paint is needed.
- Apply the paint. First, the paint will be removed to ensure that the mixture is homogeneous. Next, a first coat of BX-500 will be applied until the surface is completely covered. After about 3 or 4 hours, a second finishing coat will be applied.
After following all these steps, the final result does not look very different from what would have been obtained with a quality conventional paint. However, with the ecological paint BX-500 Colorypaint Nature from Baixens, some benefits are obtained that make its use highly recommended when decorating our walls:
- You have a healthier home, since it purifies the air we breathe.
- Thanks to the minimum content of irritating substances, unpleasant odors are avoided while the paint dries.
- It is more durable than other paints because it is washable and can be easily cleaned with a sponge, water and liquid soap.
- Avoid allergy problems by not giving off harmful gases.
- It saves time and money, since it is a very covering paint that spreads a lot and is easy to apply.
- As it is permeable to water vapour, moisture condensation is not generated, which prevents the appearance of mold and microorganisms.
- You contribute to the environment, as it has a low environmental impact throughout the product’s life cycle.
Definitely, ecological paints are the best option to paint our homeboth for its good quality/price ratio, and for the benefits they bring to our health.
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