Exterior Masonry Paint - Breathable Outdoor House Paints
Masonry paint comes in many different variations, and you’ll be spoilt for choice by the big brands in your local DIY store. However, all these well priced big brand exterior paints come at the cost of your health and the environment. High levels of solvents, high levels of plastic and toxic chemicals that off-gas into your environment for months, or even years. When the plastic based paint gradually disintegrates through environmental damage and UV damage, the plastic just ends up as plastic microbeads in our waterways and oceans. Standard paint is the number one producer of microbeads in our oceans.
You can stop this flow right now by switching to natural paints and more environmentally sustainable options for your outdoor and exterior masonry paints. Modern formulations of natural minerals and plastic free plant based binders create breathable exterior masonry paint that is as strong and durable as any plastic big brand exterior paint, but without the environmental cost.
What to use? For most exterior surfaces and walls we would suggest the breathable Graphenstone GCS Exterior Masonry paint, which is suitable for all kinds of substrates. GCS Exterior is suitable for all kinds of lime render, bricks, old paint, standard mortars, concrete and many multiple surface types and especially suited for heritage and older properties that need to breathe. If you want a more traditional breathable lime wash have a look at the Lime Earth range, which is locally made to us here in Stroud.
