Vapor barrier paint / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...paint or vapor semi-permeable interior finishes. The following main principles are recommended: Avoid vapor barriers where vapor retarders will work, avoid vapor retarders where vapor permeable materials will work. Avoid the installation of a vapor barrier on both sides of the wall assembly. Avoid using poly, foil fac...

...paints, replacing them with solvent-free or water-based paints, often labelled as low-VOC paints or zero VOC paints. The move towards safe paint has led to a noticeable improvement in indoor air quality since the mid-seventies, and better even in the last decade. But paints based on petrochemical solvents still represe...