On-Site Painting

Carmelito, My thoughts on this would be that these paints/coatings would not be compliant, though you could always use the VOC budget approach. My reasoning is two-fold. 1) Requirements clearly state that Low-Emitting credits pertain to paints and coatings that are "inside of the weatherproofing system and applied on-site". It sounds like the interior components would meet both of these criteria. 2) When I am searching for some kind of reprieve I look at the intent of the credit. The intent of IEQc4 is to "reduce the quanity of indoor air contaminants that are odorous, irritating and/or harmful to the comfort and well-being of installers and occupants". Given that all finished have a period of time that they off-gas, and this period of time would be relatively short because of the method of curing, air drying, I would guess that you will still be introducing harmful VOC's into the indoor environment. When finishing occurs off-site there may be a curing process and a time component that allows the finished objects to off-gas. Hope this helps and best of luck on your LEED project.

I don't think that's okay. It hinges on the definition of "off site." You can exclude paints that were applied off site but if you're painting them on site they should be included if they will be inside of the weatherproofing system.