Are Encapsulating Paints Worth It? - Painting - DIY Chatroom - DIY ...

I haven't looked in to these too thoroughly but I did go over them briefly at the request of a customer looking to buy them. Most of the ones I looked at had one or two things that made them "encapsulating". They were thicker more rubbery products, i.e. elastomerics designed to glue down existing paint, and sometimes they had Bitrex, an additive that is so nasty tasting that anything trying to chew on it immediately stops.

In my opinion they are mainly marketing hype. They are not that different from existing products but they cost a lot more because they have to pay the government to certify the product. Unless you think you'll have a child chewing on the porch I don't see the point in the bitrex either. I'd remove the lead paint before using the encapsulator anyway if I was that concerned about a child being near it. If you are talking floor surface, I'm not sure any of these products are designed to withstand foot traffic anyway.

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