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How to Renovate Metal Roofs with Elastometal.
ELASTOMETAL- A high performance elastomeric coating designed to waterproof metal roofs and protect against long term corrosion. Guaranteed 10 years. INTRODUCTION Metal sheet roofs are used worldwide to cover warehouses, factories, distribution centres and many other kinds of commercial buildings. They are permanently exposed to the environment subject to extreme conditions and stresses often in…
Top 3 Breathable Paints for Heritage Buildings and Period Homes
Using a combination of lime-based breathable paints like the GCS Exterior and GrafClean, will not only restore your heritage property to its former glory but act to protect the building for years to come.
Interior Colour Trends Set to Take 2021 by Storm
What interior colour trends are new for 2021? A number of major home improvement paint companies and producers of colour palettes like Pantone are now making their predictions for the coming year. 2020 has been a year like no other with restrictions and lockdowns our homes have become our safe havens. In this unprecedented…
5 Tips to Seal & Waterproof Metal Roofs on Commercial Buildings
What are the types of Metal Roofs? Metal roofs can be made of copper, aluminium, steel, corten and galvanised steel. Copper is extremely long lasting and malleable, unfortunately the resale value has resulted in an increase in vandalisation and theft from commercial property. Aluminium is a light metal easily fabricated with good corrosion properties when…
Avace’s Guide to Metal Cladding Painting on Commercial Buildings
What are the most common types of metal cladding? Metal cladding panels for architectural buildings can be natural metal alloys or coil coated metal sheets. Typical metals used in commercial cladding panels include stainless steel, copper, corten steel, galvanised steel and aluminium. Because of this range of materials it’s important to know what to look…
How Painting Decking Can Help Create a Unique Garden Space in 2021
What are the most common types of decking boards? Decking boards can be made of natural timber, composite boards, PVC or aluminium. Composite boards are a mixture of recycled plastic and wood dust molded together. PVC decking contains no wood dust, it is 100% synthetic and much lighter than the composite counterpart. Composite boards and…
Make UPVC Painting Easy With These 5 Tips
What is UPVC Before we can learn about UPVC Painting, it’s best to get a good understanding over the materials we are working with. UPVC and PVCu are one and the same, an abbreviation for unplasticised polyvinyl chloride. It is an energy efficient hard plastic commonly used to manufacture window and door frames as an…
Colour Selection, Combinations, And Palettes in 2020
How are colours Defined and Compared? Developed in 1976 the CIE Lab colour space was created to establish a universal system to compare tones. Hue is measured moving around the circumference of the colour sphere through red, yellow, blue, and green. The Chroma defines the vividness, increasing from the centre to the circumference. They can…
Masonry Paints: The Avace 5 Point Guide
What is Masonry? For as long as there has been masonry there has been masonry paint. Masonry is the group description for structures from building blocks typically brick and stone which are laid in mortar and upon drying harden to a highly durable form of construction. Poured concrete is often also referred to as masonry.…