Olympic Premium Paints are making every color in your home green - the environmentally friendly kind, not the Kermit kind. Â I just spent this past weekend painting my new home and was pleasantly surprised at how far paint technology had come since the last time I had labored over the brushes and rollers.
I chose Olympic Paint for this job on the suggestion of my Mom, who it’s turning out more and more does indeed know best, who recommended the brand for its Zero VOC emissions. Â VOCs are Volatile Organic Compounds which are found in many paints, stains and solvents. Â They’re essentially what cause the nasty fumes which turn the painting of your house into an exercise in how to avoid huffing by opening windows and turning fans up to high speed. Â It goes without saying these fumes are bad for both your health and the environment, being a major cause of indoor air pollution as they continue to emit pollutants well after the paint has dried. Â They also are a major contributor to ground level Ozone. Â
However there is none of that with Olympic Paints. Â You can barely even smell the stuff when you open the can and the fumes that plague so many house painting sessions are completely absent with his terrific product which has been certified with the Green Seal “Class A” and awarded with the Home Safety Council’s Commendation Award for Product Innovation and Consumer Safety. Â The brand is also very affordable at around $20 per can, comes in practically every color imaginable and is widely available at all Lowe’s Stores.
You can by learning more about Green Seal products at greenseal.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to safeguarding the environment and transforming the marketplace.
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Thanks for the fluffy article. But did you know that the colourants added to this paint are not voc free.
Please stop polluting the web with fluff. If you are going to write something, put your back into it.
Thanks for the uninformed, sarcastic comment. Olympic paints advertises itself as VOC free, their main US retail seller, Lowe’s, does the same and they are hailed across the web as the premiere low-to-no VOC paint available in the US market. Unlike web comments, there are laws regarding claims such as this, which I trust the legal departments of respective companies vetted before the information was included in their advertising.
I also used the paint personally, painting the entire interior of my house with. It was remarkably easy to work with and had practically no fumes whatsoever. So perhaps you’ve mistaken my own pleasant experience with the product as fluff.
Regardless, it is of little importance. If you’re going to try and contest what someone else has researched and wrote, try backing it up beyond “did you know that the colourants added to this paint are not voc free.” and signing it “bob”. How about a reference? A source? Something that proves you’re not just the British viral PR guy from Benjamin Moore? An effort beyond putting your pinky toe into it as you did above.
Thanks.
I tried Olympic paint this week..it really is a pretty good paint. According to my brother it smells like bread. Lol. However, I have noticed that if you get darker colors the smell does get stronger (we painted on room pink, and the smell was barely noticable…we painted another a very dark greyish color and it did smell more like traditional paint…however it didn’t give me a headache as traditional paint does). All and all I was impressed with this paint…for being so cheap it really does work relatively well.
I have heard the claim that when you add tints to a no voc paint it does add some voc’s…however I have only heard that from people selling Freshaire paint (carried at home depot). They claim they are the only paint to add no voc’s in the tinting process…how true that claim is I don’t know.
Olympic Interior are paitn in green color and I like this color. The product of Olympic is very well.
Olympic is not Zero VOC. They put a disclaimer on their cans, regarding method 24 testing.
Anything 50ml and under is considered being green. This going “green” thing is a nice marketing tool . Starting up your car/truck or gas lawn mower is much worse than opening a gallon of paint.
I’ve used Olympic and like the paint. I was amazed that there is no odor whatsoever. With two young kids it was nice that I didn’t have to leave the house and could move right back into my room after painting.
I’d recommend it and the price is great. I paid $17 or something close to that.