they painted my sons classroom yesterday and....

[Art 1]

So to those complaining, how many nights do you pay for a hotel room while you paint inside your house?

Home owners would put up with it. It's renters that would complain and demand a room for the night. It's amazing want renters want and demand.

 

[npmommie]

Home owners would put up with it. It's renters that would complain and demand a room for the night. It's amazing want renters want and demand.

well I can tell you that if some kind of work was going on in my home that has the potential for health implications I would pay for a hotel room, and we own our house.

and your comment, really?

 

[sam_gordon]

Home owners would put up with it. It's renters that would complain and demand a room for the night. It's amazing want renters want and demand.

How did this get from a school classroom to complaining renters?

 

[jen0610]

we don't paint every room at the same time. and keep the room being painted well ventilated, even though we use the zero voc paints. hubby just painted our downstairs bathroom, couldn't even smell the paint, but ventilated the room anyway.

when he paints the kids rooms I will have them sleep in another room for one night to be sure.

on another note these fumes are in our homes even when we don't paint or use any other chemical, they say when doing something like painting it can increase it by 1000 percent.

call me crazy, but I have read a can of paint.

I also wanted to add, even if there was NO chance of health issues from sitting in the paint smelly room, I myself would find it uncomfortable and bothersome. I am sensitive to smells like that and I would have a headache for sure.

The last time we painted, it was in the warmer months, so that the windows in that room could be open before, during and after the paint was on the walls. During and after the paint was on the walls a fan was in the window - blowing out - to help draw the smells out of the house. And neither kid slept in their rooms from the time we started to the project, until we had the room put back together.

Like I said, I like to error on the side of caution.

 

[krcit]

How did this get from a school classroom to complaining renters?

It's the Dis!!!!

 

[Bob NC]

If they had painted my sons classroom, chances are I wouldn't have known about it.

 

[shortbun]

Then why do they make low/zero voc paints? Why do they tell you to paint in a well ventilated area? Because it is not healthy to breathe in the air.

Why are they painting during the school year?

Yep! You are totally correct and anyone saying regular paint is harmles needs a lot more information. You all should look up VOC as it pertains to paint; Volatile Organic Compounds such as formaldahyde are very toxic and cause all kinds of lung and alergic reactions. We haven't painted with anything other than non VOC paint for at least two dozen years.

OP, keep your son out of the room for the rest of the week. The rest of you who think lead is the only painting hazard...time to update your information.

 

[SAHDad]

It's the Dis!!!!

My guess is that, within a couple more pages, people will be back to arguing over refillable mugs or ECVs.

 

[sissy_ib]

Why didn't they do it on a Friday afternoon?
Isn't this coming weekend a long weekend with Monday being President's day? That would be the perfect time to paint.

 

[undertheradar]

Why didn't they do it on a Friday afternoon?
Isn't this coming weekend a long weekend with Monday being President's day? That would be the perfect time to paint.

Except for the cost of having someone watch the ventilating rooms over the long weekend. Can't just prop open the windows, lock the school doors and gates, and hope that nobody entered the school.

 

[StephMK]

That is an odd time to paint. It would bother me because certain odors give me headaches. We had some painting done in our hall earlier this fall and the nearby teachers were all complaining about it.

 

[mrs.beast]

Our schools here do tons of these projects during the school year. Due to the budgets, we rent most of our sites to private companies over the summer for camps and there is only time to clean them in the 2 weeks before school starts. So all big projects are reported after the camp is out and the reg. teacher is back. Then our 3 person team goes from school to school fixing things on a rotation basis (1 school each day/every other week). For the money the district makes from the camps, it is worth it. It has allowed us to keep programs that would have disappeared with the current budget crisis. When we paint, etc, we use the multi/science room, etc for class.