Paint concern - advice needed

[Starlight32]

The conference room on our floor is being painted Monday & Tuesday next week. My desk sits nearby the room (down 2 small hallways to the door, but the partition/"fake walls" that are being painted back up closely to my desk area. The room has zero ventilation (no windows, as it's made up of fake walls in the middle of the floor) and neither does the floor (the floor just has a few tiny windows along a hallway that only open a sliver).

I'm really worried about exposure to paint fumes. I've already made arrangements for Monday and Tuesday (the days of painting), but what about the rest of the week? How long will the paint smell and fumes be dangerous? (I don't know what kind of paint they are using; this is a "commercial" building so I'm unsure how much that differs from painting a room in a house).

 

[pinkpassion]

It's not the actual paint smell you have to worry about. It's the actual fumes from the paint. So if you won't be there while they paint you *should* be ok!! Even if it still smells like paint as long as it's not fresh or wet! If it's too strong though see if your boss can move you for a day. Just tell them with pregnancy you are very sensitive to the smells and you get bad headaches or something! Or tell them you don't feel comfortable being exposed to such strong smells!

 

[Starlight32]

I'm going to try to stay off the floor for as along as possible. I'm so upset this is happening while I'm pregnant. It doesn't seem fair.