The best natural paint that let’s you and your home breathe easy in 2021

Natural paints so you and your walls can breathe easy

Many properties, particularly older ones, suffer from damp. One previous remedy was to attempt to seal the walls  to make them waterproof, using non-breathable building materials and paints such as vinyls. Whilst this offered a short-term solution, water naturally finds its way in through hairline cracks in the walls, as the building moves. Once the water has penetrated the wall it has no escape and becomes trapped beneath the waterproof material and paint work, resulting in rising damp in the walls. Any paints that contain vinyl, acrylic, oils or plastics are not breathable and can trap moisture beneath the surface, causing mould, decay, then ultimate breakdown and detachment of larges areas of paintwork.

If you want to find out why older building suffer from damp, take a look at the Old building Eco Handbook to find out where damp comes from and its various manifestations in the home.

One way to avoid damp in a building is to use breathable building materials, such as lime render or plaster. To decorate lime rendered surfaces it is critical to use only lime based breathable 'microporous' paints like Ecosphere for internal walls or Ambient Pro+ on exterior walls.

What is breathable paint?

'Breathability' refers to how easily water vapour can pass through a medium. For example a breathable wall is one that will take in moisture present in the air, then release it as if the wall is breathing, without impacting on the fabric of the building.

GrafClean is a breathable paint that will allow  water vapour to permeate, travel and transfer through itself. Measured in meters, breathability  is a calculation of how much of a barrier the paint coating is to water vapour and how easily the vapour can pass through this barrier. GrafClean is Class 1 rated as a breathable coating reducing condensation and damp. It is an ideal ecological sustainable coating for plaster and plasterboard on interior walls and ceilings and may also be used externally. It is a washable finish particularly suited to busy hallways and humid environments such as bathrooms and kitchens. GrafClean is a natural sustainable wall paint recommended on interior and exterior concrete in new builds as it is certified for moisture control in concrete surface protection systems (EN 1504-2).

 

Benefits exclusive to the AVACE Graphenstone range

Reduces CO2 and harmful toxin exposure

In 2021 the large quantity of air pollutants found in your home will likely come as an unwelcome discovery. Air pollutants such as aerosols, spray-cleaning products, paints, combustion bi-products, nicotine, contaminated carpets and furnishing. Toxins and chemicals such as formaldehyde can remain suspended in the air, potentially harming all those inside. We are encouraged to open windows to ventilate, however in our densely populated urban environments the lack of air purity and concentrations of CO2, nitrous oxides, sulphur dioxides , diesel and other harmful toxins represents an even greater risk.

Air Purifying Paints contain a molecular sieve which is designed to trap harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as they circulate in our living spaces. The sieve's non-toxic crystalline tubes are designed to filter specific harmful VOCs, including formaldehyde, glycol, carbon dioxide, NOx and SOx. Air Purifying paints are engineered to improve the air quality inside and outside your home, they are based on sustainable natural ingredients.

Only natural ingredients

Made with you and your health in mind

Avace Graphenstone air purifying paints use lime from the Moron de la Frontera region in Spain. This artisan method using wood burning kilns creates a lime with high whiteness and purity, a traditional process since the mid nineteenth century. A process recognised as Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 2011.

Based on lime and 100% natural ingredients the Avace Graphenstone Air Purity paints absorb CO2 as they cure. Once the paint is applied it commences a process of carbonation, during the first three days one 15 litre container of Ambient Pro+ will absorbs 5.5kg of CO2 , the same amount as an adult tree achieves in four months.

 

Sustainable and environmentally friendly

Achieving the industry's highest environmental standards, including Cradle to Cradle Gold, LEED, WELL & BREEAM. Rated Global Green Tag Platinum Graphenstone is the worlds leading environmental brand of mineral paints and coatings. This range of Air Purifying paints are better for the environment and healthier for our homes and cities. A harm free solution for our planet and people with Ambient pro+.

Long-lasting finish and energy saving properties

All of the air purifying paints in the  AVACE Graphenstone range have been reinforced with Graphene providing innovative qualities such as thermal conductivity, durability, flexibility, strength and consistency. The nanotechnology acts as a structural mesh at the molecular level increasing dramatically the performance of these natural paints, increasing flexibility by 20%, reducing cracking and damage. The combination of natural lime and graphene technology results in high performing paints suitable for interior and exterior use with high whiteness, opacity and high coverage rates. If you would like to learn more about the different types of air purifying lime paints and primers we stock, take a closer look at our AVACE Graphenstone Range .