Can You Paint Vinyl Flooring? Our technical department have been asked whether it is possible to paint vinyl or linoleum floors. Generally, this is not something that we would recommend as floor paint does not tend to stick to vinyl or Marley floor tiles very well. You will find that…
Introducing The Advantages of Black Barn Paint
As a leading barn paint stockist to the UK, Promain would like to introduce the advantages of Black Barn Paint to our customers. Barn paint has now become one of the fastest selling products we offer, due to it’s number of benefits over alternatives. Below we will explain the benefits…
How To Remove Efflorescence and Laitance
Our technical team frequently get reports of customers looking to remove a whitish residue from substrates such as brickwork, concrete or floor tiles. If you have noticed construction looking like the below pictures, you may have come across laitance or efflorescence. We would like to explain the differences between the…
How To Store Paint Correctly
When it comes to industrial paint, it is important to go back to basics to ensure storage is performed correctly. One of the most simple pitfalls in regards professional painting is how to store paint. Typically, most of the general public when asked tend to keep their excess paint within…
What Are The Ideal Weather Conditions For Painting?
When it comes to decorating outside, weather conditions for painting are an obvious important factor to account for. Although it may seem obvious to not start painting outside when it looks like it is about to rain, but what about other weather conditions such as wind or bright sunlight? Read…
Introducing Solar Reflective Paint
In an uninsulated building such as an industrial unit or garage, the rise in temperature caused by solar heat can make the interior conditions uncomfortable. This temperature increase leads to a higher carbon footprint and running costs. This results in cooling devices such as air conditioning units and fans being…
Reduce The Risk Of Fires Caused By Oil Soaked Rags
Recently a client of ours experienced a fire in a brand new oak framed building. The fire was a result of an oil soaked rag, and as you can see from the pictures this has caused severe and costly damage. Off the back of this incident, it has come to…
Static Caravans: Using Peganox Metal Roof Paint
We were contacted by a customer who owned a holiday home in Malaga, Spain that required their metal roof paint to be updated to a product that could withstand heat up to 50°C in the heat of summer. Promain’s technical team recommended a combination of Rust-Oleum Noxyde and Peganox to…
The Do’s and Don’ts of Mixing Tins of Paint
Promain’s Technical Department receive a lot of queries such as ‘’the paint is a different colour to what the tin says” or “the paint has dried in some places but not in others’’. To avoid these errors you must ensure that you mix the paint correctly before application. As simple…
The Do-It-Yourself Paint Stripper Guide
Paint strippers for home, commercial and industrial use. We’ve recently received feedback from clients advising us that the paint stripper they are using is not performing how they are used to it to. This is no fault of their own, but is due to recent legislation from the EU banning…