what can i add to paint to lessen the smell?

Answer 1

There are additives, by the drop, you can add, but I've applied thousands of gallons of paint, and Latex isn't offensive, unless you have polymer allergies. The smell disipates rapidly. Beyond that a fresh paint job smells fresh, and often masks or dispells other odors in a room/house.

Certainly if you're using an oil based paint indoors,,, and I can't imagine why,,, unless it's a stain or varnish issue,,, the odor will linger longer.

BTW,,, the type of latex doesn't matter, in that any smells less or more than another. Satin however is my substance of choice primarily because it has agents included that allow a less porous surface and better "cleanability" than flat or eggshell.

Rev. Steven

Answer 2

This is going to sound wild, and I wouldn't have believed it if we hadn't tried it ourselves. Add 2 teaspoons of vanilla to a gallon of paint and stir it in well. Use real vanilla, so it will be alcohol based and won't mess up the paint. It actually does work, covers the odor really well and doesn't change the paint. The alcohol evaporates as the paint dries. Sounds nutty, but a professional house painter told us this trick when I fussed about having to have the odor. We tried it when we painted the inside of our home, and it worked like a charm.

Answer 3

I can't think of anything you can add to paint to reduce the smell - you could use paint like Satinwood which does not smell so much. Alternatively you could place half an onion in the room which you are painting to absorb the smell.

Answer 4

you waiting? This sounds loopy yet right here is what you do: Take an onion, decrease it in 0.5 and eliminate the peel. place between the halves in a saucer of water (decrease part down). The onion someway absorbs the scent of the paint, besides the undeniable fact that it won't make the whole room scent like onion. you need to use the different 0.5 an analogous way in yet another room or use 2 mutually in a extensive room. desire this facilitates.

Answer 5

Do not add to paint but cut an onion in half and place in a bowl of warm water, this will absorb paint odours.

Answer 6

I also know of nothing that you can add to paint, but I have always put a bucket of water in the room.

Answer 7

massage oils
the ones you can get from the body shop
i tried it with the rose they do
it takes the smell away and don't effect the paint in any way

Answer 8

cut an onion into 4 and leave it in the room, it absorbs the smell, it works honest.

Answer 9

an onion cut in half is supposed to absorb the smell, i've beeen told that loads of times.

Answer 10

Buy odourless paint.