Papercreters: [papercreters] RE: Exterior Paint for environmentally sensitive people

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

[papercreters] RE: Exterior Paint for environmentally sensitive people

Hi,

I thought I would forward a professional response from Originate Natural
Building Materials below to Robert's question about exterior finishes.
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>> >> Posted by: "Robert Deutsch"
>> >> Date: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:05 am ((PDT))
>> ...
>> >> What are natural options for exterior paint that will protect the wood siding?
>> ...
>> >> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> >>
>> >> Robert in Mendocino
Also, American Clay has a new lime, paper and crushed glass exterior
plaster that Mason Greenstar has been using on papercrete. I coated a
block with it that has been outside since I did their workshop in January.

Thanks,

Vince

P.S. I haven't been following many threads as I get the digest version
and too many people are just clicking reply without snipping their
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more people to participate in this list, please cut the waste text, like
I did above. It also saves electrons!

> Robert-
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> Technically Lime Paint is a natural paint that few people have issues with chemically. Saying that I don't feel it would work in your instance as Lime has to chemically bond to the surface it is being applied to. Since your wood has been treated previously it wouldn't be pourous enough. Secondly, usually lime is applied over raw stucco, not wood.
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> I would recommend a pure tung oil - no dryers just the oil to go over your plywood. The Real Milk Paint company sells Pure Tung Oil
> http://www.realmilkpaint.com/oil.html
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> Or AFM which specializes in products for chemically sensitive people has a Naturals Clear Penetrating Oil - composed of organic flax, linseed, hemp and soybean oils, isoalipahte, cobalt-free & lead-free driers.
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> Lastly, you could paint with a No-VOC exterior paint - a true no-VOC that the colorants are also no-VOC as well as the base, either AFM Safecoat All-Purpose Exterior Satin or YOLO Colorhouse.
> http://yolocolorhouse.com/products_exterior.php
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> I hope this helps.
>
> Natasha
> -- Natasha Winnik Originate Natural Building Materials Showroom 526 N.
> Ninth Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85705 520-792-4207 www.originateNBM.com