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So how do we avoid it ?????

It's very difficult to describe. It's just a chemically smell. I work as a gas emergency engineer and get called out to the smell a lot during warm weather. I've probably got a different experience to the decorator, as they are probably not called back when this smell suddenly appears, as people...

Thanks for your replies guys, can anyone reccomend a good paint to use as a primer / undercoat ? I have used the cheap homebase matt white emulsion the last couple of times I've painted and I get the smell with these. It's interesting that you mention Crown Breatheasy as that's the paint I used...

My question was about wall preperation, I haven't bought any paint yet, but with wall odour, it happens with all makes of paint.

Hi everyone, I work for the gas emergency service and am called out regularly to a smell of gas that turns out to be " Wall odour phenomenon " The Paint manufacturers acknowlege this phenomenon and say that it only happens in 1 in 100,000 houses. This is garbage, if that were true I would not be...