{"id":186,"date":"2012-01-11T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-08-06T23:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T06:04:20","slug":"is-drywall-joint-compound-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/is-drywall-joint-compound-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Drywall Joint Compound Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many parents with growing families want to remodel or expand their homes and think they\u2019re using \u201cgreen\u201d or safe products when they install or repair drywall in their homes. So that the joints between the large pieces of drywall don\u2019t show, your installer will be applying \u201cjoint compound\u201d, also called \u201cmud\u201d. Joint compound<br \/>\nis\u00a0also frequently applied all over the drywall as<a href=\"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Drywall-Joint-Compound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-295\" title=\"Drywall Joint Compound\" src=\"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Drywall-Joint-Compound-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> \u00a0\u201cskim coat\u201d to create a texture under the paint. Many people mistakenly assume that skim coat is plaster, but it\u2019s not, it\u2019s toxic, conventional joint compound! Conventional joint compounds contain many toxic ingredients that you and your family need to avoid.<br \/>\nFor the low down on joint compounds and the safest alternatives, read my article on Green Home Guide:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenhomeguide.com\/askapro\/question\/is-joint-compound-really-safe-im-concerned-about-polyvinyl-acetate-binders\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">http:\/\/greenhomeguide.com\/askapro\/question\/is-joint-compound-really-safe-im-concerned-about-polyvinyl-acetate-binders<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many parents with growing families want to remodel or expand their homes and think they\u2019re using \u201cgreen\u201d or safe products when they install or repair drywall in their homes. So that the joints between the large pieces of drywall don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/is-drywall-joint-compound-safe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,23,6],"tags":[24,25,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}