I have a bathroom which has been glossed and i can't open the window to air it out. It reeks.
What old wive's trick for eliminating the smell of gloss paint?
smoke something
Glass of milk left in the bathroom! Dunno if works or not though.
2 weeks holiday in the sun!
Light a candle.
Cut an onion in half and leave in the room....
Spinach, egg and mushroom curry tonmight.
By the time you come out of there tomorrow morning nobody's going to complain about the smell of paint.
Slice half an onion thinly, place it on 3 or 4 plates around the area and it will absorb the smell of the paint overnight. It should be gone by morning if you are lucky, if not just replace the onion with freshly cut ones and repeat.
excellent.
so big smelly curry tonight, while evacuating tomorrow morning i'll have a fag surrounded by candles whilst on the laptop booking a 14 night holiday. then i'll try the onion trick.
top stuff!
Use a different paint....! Seriously some 'low' VOC (3% or less) paints still have a reet pong / long time to off-gass - some paints have much lower VOC's and give them off quicker.
fact: most paints will off-gas for about 6 years, and the average newly painted room is more polluted and harmful to health than the outdoor air quality of a city center...
I quite like the smell of gloss paint drying
Matt - do you know cunning things about this? What do you use?
like matt says, look for paints that have low VOC contents,
otherwise i think there is very little you can do.