Tikkurila Helmi 10 / 30 / 80

Tikkurila Helmi is a multi-purpose internal furniture paint available in 3 gloss levels. Suitable for coating both metal and wood items internally.

Best Uses

Tikkurila Helmi 10 / 30 / 80 is a superior coating for the interior painting of wooden, wood fibreboard, chipboard and metal surfaces. This internal metal and wooden furniture paint is suitable for the decorative coating of doors, skirting boards, window frames, radiators, cabinets, furniture etc.

Suitable for touch-up and first application painting and repainting of surfaces previously coated with an alkyd or acid-curing paint. Not suitable for repainting of surfaces painted with nitrocellulose lacquer.

Tintable to Tikkurila colour ranges - Feel the Color, Symphony Color System, Feel the Color 2020, Color Now 2022, Deco Grey colour card. Can be tinted in Tikkurila colours.

Resistant to cleaning chemicals and mild solvents, such as white spirit.

Application

For Unpainted Surfaces:
Carefully remove any dirt and dust from new surfaces for ensuring the best possible adhesion. Prime new wood and wood fibreboard surfaces with Tikkurila Helmi Pohjamaali. For absorbent porous surfaces, priming using a primer thinned 5–10% followed by intermediate sanding is recommended. Then, paint the surface with an unthinned primer.

Prime surfaces which needs special adhesion with Tikkurila Otex Akva. Prime knotty and yellowed wood with Tikkurila Multistop Primer.

For Previously Painted Surfaces:
Wash previously painted surfaces with Tikkurila Maalipesu detergent and rinse carefully with water. Remove loose paint with a scraper. Sand the hard, glossy and factory-painted surfaces non-glossy. Remove the sanding dust. Fill holes and cracks with Tikkurila Helmi Kalustekitti filler and sand the filled spots. Prime with Tikkurila Helmi Pohjamaali or Tikkurila Otex Akva adhesion primer.

Before use, stir the paint thoroughly down to the bottom and thin with water, if necessary. Apply 1–2 coats by brush, roller, paint pad or spray. On large surfaces, it is recommended to first apply the paint with a roller and then level the coat with a brush. We recommend the use of synthetic brushes with multi-branched bristles.

If the undercoat is an alkyd primer, the final adhesion with the primer is reached after two weeks of applying the primer. During this time, avoid sticking masking tape, for example, on the surface.

Apply via synthetic fibre brush, roller or via spray.

For conventional spraying, use pressure 3-4 bar, nozzle 1.4-1.8 mm thinning 0-10 vol-%.

For airless spray use nozzle pressure 140-160 bar, nozzle 0.009”-0.013”, thinning 0-5 vol-%

For air-assisted airless spray use nozzle pressure 80-120 bar, atomization air pressure 1-2 bar, nozzle 0.009”-0.011”, thinning 0-5% by volume.