Promain’s technical team are frequently contacted by clients looking to give their exterior masonry a textured paint finish. This is rather than with a whole new potentially expensive rendering system. We were recently contacted by a contractor that had been requested to provide a textured paint finish to a modular…
Kestrel Overbanding Tape Certified by The Highway Authorities Product Approval Scheme (HAPAS)
Recently Kestrel Overbanding Tape distributed by Promain has gained HAPAS approval and certification from the British Board of Agrément. This means that the product has been approved by the BAA and their committee of technical advisors for use on British Highways. By specifying Kestrel overbanding tape for highways projects you…
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…
Thermoplastic Line Marking London’s Cycle Superhighways
TfL News: Preformed Thermoplastic Is Now The Line Marking Of Choice On London’s Dedicated Cycleways The latest addition of the London Cycling Design Standards (September 2016, minor amendments) has confirmed that preformed thermoplastic markings are now the preferred method of marking London’s Cycle Superhighways. Before this amend to specification requirements…
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…
How To Use Power Washers On Exterior Wood
As the weather is getting better, now is the perfect time to get outside and clean any mould, algae or residual dirt from your exterior wood decking or fencing. Typically our customers use a power washer as the easiest option to clean their wood. This tends to be problematic due…
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…
Four Things You Need To Keep In Mind For Your Office Based Business
Working in an office can come with lots of successes…and also lots of risks and failures. As each week goes by, you and your employees can have difficult times. Things may get stagnated, or something just goes really wrong and needs to be fixed with a lot of extra time…
How to Guide: Sealing & Painting Concrete Floors
During recent trips to both Paris and Berlin, I noticed how a lot of the high-end boutiques and restaurants had worn ‘’patina’’ finish concrete floors or bare power floated concrete floors. Discussing this with my fiancée who works in design, she brought to my attention that this look is very…
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…