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…
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…
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…
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…
Take a Shot at Stripping
Regular readers may recall the Promain Blog: A Blistering Issue, which proved a popular guest appearance from Chris Langham of Teamac. We are delighted to have received the following guest post, from Mike Keep of Magic Bullet Products, into our inbox. Thank you Mike and over to you: Not long…
New Generation HOBA Brand Products Launched by PPG
At the recent Aerosol and Dispensing Forum in Paris, PPG Industries launched a range of innovative packaging coatings that will meet all the new requirements. PPG is confident that the new coatings will appeal to consumers, brand owners and manufacturers of packaging in various markets. The new range of coatings…
The Lady Sprays Her Bedroom With Promain Paint
Bedroom Furniture painted in Ardenbrite Metallic Paint Advice on the use of paint for spray application is not an out of the ordinary request to the Promain Head Office. Likewise, questions on Ardenbrite products are common place. The Importance of Preparation However, when I received a telephone call from a…
Preparation: Is It Always the Paint’s Fault?
Without doubt, preparation is the most important part of any painting project Skip, ignore or rush at this stage and it is highly likely that the old idiom ‘act in haste, repent at leisure’, may sum up the resulting outcome. One project, where insufficient preparation caused the paint…