Painting the first part of the house continued.

 

First section of the house to be completed

 

I have now completed the painting of the first section of the house. The Rockcote Ecostyle topcoat went on really well, two coats and that was that. We used a British paint colour called Lemon Souffle for the weatherboards,  Manor Red to match the gutters around the windows, [...]

Painting the first part of the house

 
 

The paint arrived from The Designer Paint Company in Melbourne. Mandy & I decided to use Rockcote for the weatherboards. Rockcote is made in Queensland and is non VOC and as environmentally friendly as an acrylic paint can be. After much research we decided on this compromise for the outside as we could not find [...]

Floor of 2nd bedroom coated with Hard oil wax finish

 

Slowly the bedroom is taking shape. The clay paint has been applied and now the floor has the first coat of Volvox Hard Oil Wax finish applied and is drying.
It is applied with a scraper at the rate of 20ml per square metre.  
 

 
We used a whole 300ml to coat the floor this morning   applying volvox with [...]

Volvox clay paint first application.

Well at long last I managed to paint bedroom 2 with the Volvox Clay Paint. Two coats on the ceiling of Mont Blanc white and two coats of Ivory on the walls.

Very impressed. Goes on smoothly and dries to a great even coverage. The three of the walls were new plasterboard and one was already [...]

Paint, varnishes, waxes and other finishes

From reading publications such as The Owner Builder, Earth Garden, and Renew we had learnt that  paints and varnishes were chiefly made from petrochemical derivatives, had high levels of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) and could outgas for years after being applied. We also knew that this time we did not want to go down that path which [...]