7 Tips to Eliminate Paint Fumes for Brisbane Homes | Kraudelt Painting
As experienced interior house painters, we understand how the smell of freshly painted walls can linger in your home. This odor is caused by the evaporation of solvents in the paint, which dissipates as the paint dries. While the smell eventually fades, it can be overwhelming in the meantime. That’s why we’ve compiled these Tips to Eliminate Paint Fumes for Brisbane Homes.
In this guide, we’ll share 4 practical Tips for Masking Paint Fumes and 3 effective Tips for Eliminating Paint Fumes completely, helping you enjoy your freshly painted space without the lingering odor.
Eliminating paint fumes after professional painting services is easier than you might think. In fact, your kitchen is probably already stocked with everything you’ll need.
4 Tips for Masking Paint Fumes
When we paint interiors we use high quality non-toxic paints, and we take care to ventilate the property as much as possible to remove solvent odours as fast as possible. However, in some instances, especially with enamel paints, you may find that the smell may linger for a day or so. These first 4 DIY methods will mask the smell of the paint.
1. Peppermint or Vanilla Extract
If you like the smell of peppermint or vanilla, try placing a few drops of pure vanilla extract or peppermint oil on cotton balls, and place these around the room. You could also add the extract or oil to small bowls of water. Peppermint and vanilla both smell strong enough to cover up the paint fumes.
2. Use Coffee Beans
Alternatively, if you are a coffee lover, grab some freshly ground coffee beans and place them in small bowls around the room.
3. Use Charcoal
Charcoal can also be used to deodorise odours. Just crush up some wood charcoal and leave it overnight in containers throughout the room. By morning, your interior painting will smell no longer!
4. Cut Up Some Onions
This next method sounds weird, but trust us - cut a few brown onions in quarters and place them around the room. The onions will absorb any lingering paint odours.
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3 Tips for Eliminating Paint Fumes
If masking the paint fumes isn't quite cutting it, give these three eliminating techniques a go.
1. Light a Candle
One of the most effective ways of removing the solvent fumes entirely is to light a candle in the room, and let it burn for a few hours. The flame will help burn the flammable components in the paint solvent. Remember, you shouldn’t leave a candle unattended, and little kids should be careful around the open flame and hot wax.
2. Buckets of Water
A safer method of removing the smell is to place a few buckets of water around the room. The water will absorb some of the solvent vapours, leaving your newly painted interior smelling fresh. While this is a safer method, it isn’t as effective as burning a candle.
3. Ensure Proper Ventilation
Lastly, ventilation is key to removing odours from inside your house. Keep windows and doors open as long and as often as possible. Do this in conjunction with the other DIY house painting methods we’ve listed, and your home will be odour-free in no time!
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Contact us today if you’d like us to pop over and provide a detailed quote for refreshing your interior. Give us a call on 07 3829 5735, or fill out the form on this page. Our team of expert painters from Brisbane will do everything they can to minimise disruption to your household and have your home back to normal in no time.
