Finishing Strong Before the Builders’ Holiday: How to Avoid Summer Callbacks By Herman Rabe, Technical Training Manager, Prominent Paints Preparation is the most important step in any paint job. It accounts for roughly 95% of the success of the application, which is why planning and properly identifying the scope of
Colour is usually the last decision made on a project and the first one the client sees. Bright and deep hues are in vogue with the design community right now, and the choice is often made by the specifier or the property owner to land a particular look. That is
It is 9pm in January. The air conditioner has been running since lunch, the bedroom windows are open, and the ceiling is still warm to the touch. Most people blame the weather. The real culprit is usually sitting on top of the house. A roof takes the full sun from
Two contractors apply the same product to the same building on the same day. Three years later one elevation looks like it was done last season, the other looks tired. The difference is almost never the paint. It is how the surface was prepared and the conditions it was applied
Repainting Outside This Spring: What to Sort Out Before You Buy Paint Every September the same thing happens. The weather turns, the outside of the house suddenly looks worse than it did in June, and somebody decides this is the year it gets sorted. Then the whole project becomes a
Surface Inspection Before You Paint: Moisture, Cracks and Choosing the Right System When a paint job fails, the paint is usually the last thing that went wrong. The outcome was decided before anyone opened a tin. Whether the wall carried moisture. Whether the plaster was sound. Whether the cracks were
On most schedules, sheen is the line nobody argues about. Colour gets a meeting. Sheen gets a default. It is also the line that decides how the building looks in three years, how much the cleaning contractor can actually clean, and whether the first maintenance repaint happens on schedule or
A colour is not a decision you make once. It is a decision the wall keeps testing, every day, in whatever conditions you have put it in. Most people choose a colour the same way: card in hand, under shop lights, on a Saturday morning. Then the paint goes on
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT PAINT FOR KITCHENS AND BATHROOMS Most people choose interior paint based on colour. That’s not wrong — but in kitchens and bathrooms, colour is probably the last thing you should decide. The more important questions are: how much humidity does this room generate? How often
SPECIFYING DURABLE INTERIOR FINISHES FOR HIGH-TRAFFIC COMMERCIAL SPACES When an interior paint job starts failing in a commercial space, the cost is rarely just cosmetic. Scuffed walls in a school corridor, stained surfaces in a hospital ward, or flaking finishes in a busy retail environment all carry the same underlying