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Green Painting Program: Environmentally Friendly Health Choices

Alpha Painting Solutions is excited to provide Hampton Road’s only Environmentally Friendly Painting Program. We feel that it is important for our clients to have a choice, “a choice you can feel good about, a choice you can live with”, a choice to use paint products, materials, and methods that are simply a good idea when ever possible.

We feel very strongly that there is no room to compromise on quality so we have sought out products that can rate among the best professional products available. What we have found is that there are great alternatives for paint that far exceed the governments VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) standards that have been put in place to begin to eliminate unhealthy fumes and the continued depletion of the ozone layer.

Paints consist of a resin or binder, pigments, and a carrier. They also consist of solvents, toxic metals, and VOCs that can cause smog, ozone depletion, and indoor air quality problems with negative health effects. These unhealthy ingredients “off-gas” into the air during the application and curing of paints, and even after the paints are dry for quite some time. Naturally, the higher the level of VOCs, the more unhealthful the paint might be. The impact on indoor air quality and your family’s or employee health is the primary issue with VOCs in paint, rather than the impact on the environment.

Whichever way you may fall on the Global Warming issue, there is no denying that the environment and our health has suffered with heavy toxins. There is also clear evidence that these chemicals that we have put in our homes, that our children are growing up in, has contributed to a higher percentage of asthma and other respiratory illnesses among society today. With this same long term chemical exposure, many have developed MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity), Sick Building Syndrome, and it seems everyone has hay fever or increased allergies these days.

Solutions:

• We offer a great selection of Zero VOC and non-toxic paints and materials that meet our high standards for quality. Remember, VOC standards, although a step in the right direction, is a government standard and can hardly be considered comprehensive or healthy. Many "Zero VOC" products on the market reduce emissions that cause outdoor air pollution, but still contain many unregulated toxic ingredients (such as formaldehyde, ammonia, acetone, exempt solvents and odor masking agents) that cause indoor air pollution. That means the same chemical that we use to embalm our dead, and used to soak frogs in high school science class, that we are putting on the walls of our home. Whenever possible our clients have the option available to them to choose a healthier product from manufacturers that look for more natural ingredients for their paints.

• We recycle and reuse paint thinners and solvents as another step we can take to reduce toxins from going into our ground water or down the drain.

• Searching for environmentally friendly sundries such as tape, caulking, etc.

• "We use air filtration purifiers to ventilate spaces and other methods to reduce dust and fumes.

Direct Benefits to You

• Odorless Paints! Who would have thought that you could have your bedroom painted and still get a good nights sleep the same night. For business, consider that there is no interruption to day to day business, no employee complaints, and customers won’t stay away. For our senior adults, children, or chemical sensitive clients there are no ill effects such as headaches, nausea, or breathing discomforts.
• These paints are fast drying and can be recoated relatively quickly.
• Durable and washable finishes with vast color choices.

Please indicate if you prefer our Green Paint Program when you Request an Estimate.