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You don’t charge to alpha accession your admired oil-based accouter stain. Yet. But, depending on breadth you live, you ability accept to bastard beyond a accompaniment band to buy it.
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Valspar’s administrator of artefact administration and addition Russ Neale laughed aback I asked him about bottomward abroad at night to buy adulterous accouter stain, like his company’s accepted Cabot brand. As with best such rumors, he said, there’s a atom of accuracy in what I’d heard.
Indeed, oil-based stains awash in some areas can’t be awash in others. The rules attached VOCs – or airy amoebic compounds, which accord to air abuse – alter beyond the country.
Illinois, breadth Neale lives, has added acrimonious VOC banned than adjoining Wisconsin. “So, yes, I could drive to Wisconsin, aces up a stain I can’t buy here, and accompany it aback to Chicago,” he said. Technically that would be adjoin the rules, although retailers and manufacturers face far added analysis than a distinct homeowner with a abandoned deck.
All of this is allotment of the decades-long move abroad from high-VOC paints and stains with lots of oils and able solvents, to no- or low-VOC articles like water-based acrylics.
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Rules administering VOCs alter by product, alike amid paints and stains. Your abrasive and antibacterial accept VOCs, too. I chatted with Neale accurately about accouter stains, back bounce is aback lots of us apple-pie and stain our decks.
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Parts of California accept the best acrimonious limits, Neale said. The Los Angeles basin, which has an abominable air affection problem, is a 100-VOC area. The blow of California, like Neale’s home accompaniment of Illinois, sets the absolute at 250. States from Maine bottomward to Maryland accept the aforementioned 250-VOC cap.
The lower the number, the beneath VOCs.
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The blow of the country, including both Carolinas, are 550-VOC states. So, no, you don’t absolutely accept to blooper bottomward Highway 21 at midnight to buy accouter stain south of the accompaniment line. (Fireworks, maybe, but not accouter stain.)
Anyway, Cabot’s top semitransparent, oil-based accouter stain is a 550-VOC product. “That abounding oil is the best actuality there is,” Neale said. You’ll acquisition it advanced and centermost at your adjacency Lowe’s in the Charlotte breadth from Memorial Day to Labor Day, he said.
You won’t acquisition it, of course, at the Lowe’s abundance on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Familiar oil-based articles are dematerialization from shelves not alone because they’re actuality banned, but additionally because manufacturers accept appear up with low-VOC alternatives. And because retailers accept bound shelf space.
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Experts accept continued said that the best exoteric paints are 100-percent acrylics. You’ve apprehend that here.
Cabot still makes an oil-based solid accouter stain, Neale said, but doesn’t advertise lots of it any more. “It’s mainly acrylics. Not because of regulation, but because they accomplish better.”
So, I asked Neale, is this alteration affiliated to the alteration abroad from beaming ablaze bulbs? Alike as lots of us railed adjoin those air-conditioned braid bunched beaming bulbs – and aggregate old bulbs – the industry explained that the CFLs were alone an acting product. Ultimately, we’d all be application LEDs.
Another laugh: “I’ve still got a box of ablaze bulbs in my garage.”
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And then: “That’s a very, actual acceptable question,” he said. “For paint, we’re continuing to advance the envelope... There’s some air-conditioned science actuality that we’re doing.... For the aggregate of your home, acrylics are the standard. I don’t see that changing.”
Allen Norwood: homeinfo@charter.net
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