The Easter weekend is around the corner and it’s often the weekend that signals the start of maintenance and cleaning projects in the house and garden. Taking advantage of the lighter days and longer weekend, it affords the possibility of tackling and completing a realm of tasks, with a focus…
Effect of Moisture Content in Concrete
If you were laying a new concrete floor, would you know how to paint it? Yes, you may retort – you have the knowledge and experience, the common sense or can read the Technical Data Sheets that are linked to the products on the Promain website. But that might not…
Methods of Paint Application
If you’ve already taken a tour around the Promain website you will be aware of the easy to view information tabs, available at the click of a mouse. With Promain’s customer focused attention to detail, we aim to provide easy access to the salient points and information, of particular benefit…
Boating Maintenance – The Spring Issue
The last day of March normally signifies the end of the boating Winter Berthing Season. In the run up to that date the Promain Team are always prepared for the surge in orders and technical enquiries for Boat Maintenance products. Cleaner Part of the range offered by Promain includes the…
The Italian Decking Job
We recently received an email from a customer who had ordered Owatrol Textrol Penetrating Oil Finish for his decking at his Mobile Home Holiday Park in Italy, last year. He had used it to treat 35 out of 50 decks/verandas. Reading his email, it sounded like he could have been…
Delivering the Solution to a Promain Headache
The 24th December 2014 was a dreadful day for City Link employees. Christmas Eve is not the time to hear that your employer had been placed into administration. Additionally, it produced an unanticipated fall out for suppliers. All of the work load that City Link were no longer fulfilling had…
The Pensioner and the Anti-Vandal Paint
On the 16th January 2015, the Daily Mail posted a provocative account titled: Pensioner whose life was ‘made hell’ by local children is charged… because his anti-vandal paint ruined yobs’ clothes It reported that a pensioner had been charged with causing criminal damage following his use of an anti-vandal /…
Promain’s Georgian Fire Coating For Steel
First, just to clarify … the team at Promain always get a buzz when we’re able to deliver great advice and fulfil our customers’ requirements. That said, when a regular customer contacted Promain regarding a project for No. 76 Dean Street, a Georgian Property in Soho, any urges for a…
Theoretical Coverage Rates
Recently we had an enquiry regarding the consumption rate of various paint coatings. We discussed why the theoretical spreading rate and the practical usage rate were significantly different. In most cases, wastage is caused by some paint being left in the tin, paint left on the roller and in the…
Industrial Floor Paint: Cold Weather Floor Maintenance
A word of warning: Don’t let the early spring sunshine fool you into the wrong decision. Further to a previous blog regarding low temperatures and painting, we have the same restrictions and extended drying times for applying industrial epoxy floor paints during the winter months. Industrial Floor Paint Drying Times…