Heritage Interior Natural Wall Paint – Graphenstone GCS

A natural lime, silicate and mineral based interior emulsion paint, a heritage and traditional paint for use on all interior walls (not just for lime plasters).

A modern ‘traditional paint’: An excellent paint to work as a ‘modern’ traditional paint for sympathetic restoration and renovation of older heritage or listed properties, but also able to deal with mixed surfaces both modern and old. Also available as GCS Exterior.

Many surfaces: It can be applied to most surfaces including, existing lime plaster, bare lime plaster, old lime paints, bare and existing gypsum plaster, old paints (lime, traditional or modern), or even unpainted wallpaper, brick, wood, tiles and metal.

This is an incredible natural wall paint, with great credentials. This paint is Cradle to Cradle SILVER standard, which is just amazing.

Natural Wall Paint in a range of beautifully natural pigment colours for your home or workplace.  Graphenstone have incredible eco paint credentials, and claim to be the worlds best certified green brand! By far the best Coloured lime based Emulsion we’ve ever had.

“Water based paint suitable for interior walls with a silky matte finish. Available in a wide range of pastel and intense colours. The product provides excellent indoor air quality due to its low VOC content as well as being highly breathable with high durability.”

Switch to natural paints to help you and your family breathe safely again, big brand paint just leaches chemicals and toxins into the air which can last for years. We don’t want that! These natural paints are so much better for your health, and should be mandatory in schools and workplaces, as well as homes. We’re doing what we can educate people in the choices they have available, these new paints are professional trade quality and have been used worldwide.

Easy to apply on plaster, gypsum, old paints, prefab and unpainted wallpaper, brick and many other surfaces. Just make sure your wall is free from flakey bits and clean before painting. This natural coloured wall paint has a lovely mineral matte finish that is both breathable and avoids condensation. Good washability, with excellent flexibility without cracking. This paint contains naturally occurring Graphene to help strengthen the paint, quite impressive.

“Traditional building materials like lime and clay have been used to decorate and protect buildings inside and out for thousands of years. In the past, this meant using a limewash or other more delicate materials such as distempers. These coatings, whilst allowing the substrate to breathe effectively, were often more difficult to use compared to modern versions.”

More: Guide to breathable paint for lime plaster.

The Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Product Standard guides designers and manufacturers through a continual improvement process that looks at a product through five quality categories — material health, material reutilisation, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness.

Graphenstone GCS Interior Premium Natural Wall Paint is perfect for decorating interiors for a coloured, matte finish. It ensures superb air quality inside your home, maintaining the breathability, sustainability and health of the building.

• Application surfaces: Plaster, gypsum, old paints, and unpainted wallpaper, brick and many more
• Apply 2 x coats of GCS Heritage paint (diluted 10-15% with water).
• High yield – up to 16m2/L.
• Total: 6-8 m²/l | 250-325 Sq. Ft./gal (for 2 coats).
• Bases free of VOCs and formaldehyde emissions. (Emissions Class A+)  (with pigments then still an impressive <1 g/l !)
• Breathability: SD Value: <0.04 : All GCS are Class 1 SD. Classified as highly vapour open. Avoids condensation.
• Lime-silicate blend colour paint for interiors, strengthened with graphene.
• Tough and long-lasting colours. Mineral matte finish.
• No added microplastics
• Trace VOCs <0.1% Ultra Flat – 1-2% sheen.
• Contains trace MIT (< 1% MIT)
• Fire rating – BS Class ’0’
• Cradle to Cradle Silver LEED, BREEAM, WELL and SKA compliant.
• GreenRate Certified™ LEVEL A
• Class 1 Wet Scrub – EN 13300 and ISO 11998 Washable and Resistant
• Contains natural graphene for strength with excellent flexibility. No cracking.
• Also available as GCS Exterior.

Why use this paint over the normal Grafclean Emulsion? If you have anything other than ‘normal gypsum’ or ‘normally painted modern’ walls, then GCS Interior is a great choice for a interior paint. GCS interior is lime based, so better suited to lime and more traditional walls (than the normal Grafclean emulsion.)

GCS Interior vs Ambient Pro+ Photocatalytic? The Ambient pro has superior enviromenatal credentials, boasting Cradle to Cradle Gold. Ambient pro also absorbs CO2*, Sox, NOx and other VOC’s, as well as naturally inhibits viruses, mould and bacteria. However, less colours available vs the GCS Interior, and is slightly cheaper than the Ambient Pro.

Do I need a primer?

New lime plaster requires either 1 x coat of Graphenstone L42 Ambient Primer (L42 is a hybrid primer, which contains some acrylic) or a mist coat of Graphenstone Nevada white emulsion (which is acrylic free) or a mist coat of the this GCS interior if you want to stay acrylic free. Existing lime based coatings may be ok without a primer coat but Graphenstone  recommend the L42 Ambient Primer as it helps stabilise the surface.

What about bare gypsum plaster?

We don’t recommend L42 Ambient Primer for use on bare Gypsum Plaster, either a Mist Coat of Nevada or the of the Topcoat.