DH and I are diy novices and, in hindsight, did something which was a bad idea. We were planning on moving our baby into his own room because our room has a damp problem. However, when we started putting his cot in the room we noticed black mould on the wall. We cleaned the walls and used a mould remover. We then decided to paint over the affected wall area with a damp sealer paint and an anti mould paint. However we used spray can paint instead of normal paint (given that we only wanted to paint over the affected area rather than the whole wall).
we used the spray paint last weekend and we can still smell the fumes. It’s not very strong but the smell is there. Our Dyson air purifier is also showing the air quality as voc 4 when it should be zero (so ‘fair’ air quality rather than ‘good’). We don’t want to put baby in that room until all the fumes are gone.
what can we do to get rid of the paint fumes? We have had the windows open all day and night since last weekend but as soon as we close the windows, the air quality goes back up to voc 4 and the fumes are lingering.
we are going to try putting a fan, vinegar, onions and buckets of water in the room tonight to see if it makes a difference. If that doesn’t work does anyone have any other quick fix ideas?
we have had to move out for a few days because there isn’t enough space if we can’t use that room, so we really need to get this problem fixed soon!