Quote Originally Posted by kitedemon View Post
It is just il paint it will smell 'painty' for a while them go away. It is not great to breath but when i paint in the winter I just crack the window a bit. Sometime with big projects I'll paint in the garage (it gets cold here 14ºF tonight) and just bite the bullet and run a heater over night (tarped off a section of the garage to save some heat) after that it usually is dry to the touch (8 hours) and it can be brought inside the majority of the fumes gone. to finalize the end.

If you are concerned and this is not possible latex paint is likely best, every persons situation is different and we have to do the best we can inside what we are able.
I'm living with my grandparents while I'm in school and they rarely run the heater. I'm having to fight them to run it because my bedroom was getting too cold for my snakes despite me running a small space heater (like a mini one used as an individual heater) and wrapping my racks with a blanket (since the rack is an open rack). My room was getting around 68-70*F with my tubs having an ambient temp of 73* which is too cool in my opinion for them. I like to keep the ambient temp 75*F or warmer.This is what has prompted me to purchased a closed rack system to help hold in heat.

I say all that to say, running a heater in the garage won't go over well with them. I'm not even sure a bad "paint" smell will either. I'll take a look into latex paints. At least that will work until I can get me some PVC racks. I mainly wanted something to coat the wood so hopefully the humidity and heat won't warp it too much.