
Mythic Paint Home Depot
Consumer Reports' bigger autogenous acrylic analysis anytime put Home Depot's Behr cast at the top of its Ratings in all three above categories: low-luster, collapsed and matte finishes, and semigloss. CR additionally accepted that the best accomplish painting faster, easier and greener for less.
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For the aboriginal time, about all of CR's top-scoring paints, including the Behr, are amid the everyman in airy amoebic compounds, which are affiliated to pollution, smog, and respiratory problems. They accommodate no added than 50 grams per liter, a atom of the 380 grams already accepted in the most-used low-luster paints.
They're additionally aural the tougher federal VOC banned CR alleged for in its 2009 report, which the Environmental Protection Agency affairs to adduce this year, and accommodated stricter bounded California limits. Yet some amount as little as $15 per gallon, almost bisected the amount of paints that didn't accomplish CR's winners' circle.
Greener can additionally beggarly beneath work. Paints that denticulate Very Acceptable or Excellent in CR's ambuscade tests provided absolute advantage with aloof one coat, article alone two low-VOC paints managed aftermost time.
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CR's scrubbing, staining, mildew, and added tests helped it amount added than 50 paints, including versions that let you skip the accepted prime covering on bald surfaces. It additionally begin that some ultragreen formulas can amount added than you bargained for and that some accustomed brands ability accord you beneath than you'd expect.
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More multitaskers. Impressive one-coat hiding, stain resistance, and added strengths fabricated Behr Premium Plus Ultra ($33) CR's top acrylic overall. Behr says it can go anon over bald copse and wallboard after priming; at beneath than $35 per gallon, it outscored some pricier paints. Low-luster and semigloss versions of Kilz Casual Colors ($22, Wal-Mart) are formulated for calm and alfresco use. Both did able-bodied at ambuscade in interior-paint tests; CR is evaluating their alfresco performance.
Paying added can buy you less. You ability be accommodating to carapace out up to $45 per gallon for Benjamin Moore Regal if you appetite best achromatize attrition for a brilliant room. But CR's tests appearance little acumen to accede others in that amount range.
When greener isn't better. Freshaire Best ($39, Home Depot) and Mythic ($48) are claimed to accept aught VOCs and to be as abiding and awning as able-bodied as top-quality paint. But Mythic was characterless at hiding, and Freshaire Best denticulate no bigger than Fair.
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How to Choose
Visit the Consumer Reports Web armpit at www.consumerreports.org.
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