by duechristmas »
Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:49 pm
We painted my daughter's bedroom a month ago using Homebase Just One Coat Buttermilk. It had previously been painted 8 years ago over paper. We prepped the walls, painted and it looked fine. Last week as the weather warmed up we turned the heating off and the window started to be left open ... and the smell started!
It's a West facing bedroom and is worse early evening (bedtime for our daughter), first we thought maybe it's a hidden bottle of old milk, maybe spilt perfume, nail polish remover, we were questionning her trying to work it out. Saturday the gas smell was worse so I threw open the window and closed the door to the rest of the house, as a result it got MUCH worse, one call to the emergency gas man later he established there was no leak but did suggest paint fumes. Saturday night there was still a smell so I shut the gas off at the mains I was that sure it was a gas leak, yet at 330am i went to check on daughter and her friend in the warm, dark room and the smell had GONE. Sunday though it was back, so I combed through the room as others have described checking every toy, item of clothing, the bedding, the carpets, and then realised the walls! Particularly the wall facing the large window that gets the sun late afternoon.
So now we have to call Homebase and by the sounds of it we have a redecorating job on our hands. I can ventilate the room via the door but I should be able to open a window in my own house. We can do a bit of experimenting as there's a radiator cover that we painted that also stinks so I can check products out on that before comitting to the whole room. What a pain though, and the smell leaves me with a headache, I'm not sure how healthy it is for a 5 year old to be sleeping in there.
Did ANY of you find the smell went on it's own or are we definitely in this for the long haul?