Are they really paints?
While the majority of paints in the Australian market are purchased in liquid form this is not to say they’re the only option, nor the best, especially for exterior use under Australia’s very high ultra violet conditions.
Some people mightn’t know that some paints can actually be purchased in powder form, or for those who do, the extent to which powder paints when mixed into water can actually outperform typical liquid paints.
Compared to typical liquid paint, the main points of difference is that once mixed with water, high-quality powder products are usually automatically applied in thicker coats, are absolutely waterproof and highly durable as well as weather, corrosion and abrasive wear resistant. Some of the better acrylic polymer-modified powder paints are also guaranteed not to flake, peel or delaminate for 25 years, which demonstrates outstanding confidence in their products by their manufacturers.
Of course, the performance goes hand in hand with the product’s composition, and for companies like Ability Building Products, who have been supplying their duro paint ™ to the international market for over 30 years, the product composition has been an repeatable development process which has seen duro paint ™ become one of the most durable exterior/interior coatings known to man.
duro paint™ meets and far exceeds the performance criteria of what the current market is requesting of paint products. After power mixing, coating thickness is five times greater than most other applied paint products so the need to repaint can be considerably delayed and maintenance is virtually unnecessary. This performance also means building owners will enjoy considerable cost savings on recoating, especially for large scale projects.
A possible drawback for specifying powder paints has, not surprisingly, been the associated mixing process but perhaps this is only excusable for DIY painters. For professional master painters, mixing a batch of duro paint ™ is no more than a straight forward process, and when you consider that the product is guaranteed to last 25 years with minimal maintenance, such as an occasional hosing with water, the benefits of using duro paint ™ over any old liquid paint far outweigh the process of simply power mixing it into clean water.
The duro paint™ range of high build paints can be used on virtually any surface-for both interiors as well as exteriors and they come in an infinite choice of colours. Some of the many applications may include: industrial and residential concrete pavements, walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, swimming pools and their surrounds, fountains, road lane marking, weather proofing of marine structures, bridge decks and steel structures, shotcreted concrete highway embankments and for a long life finish to commercial buildings—both old and new.
For more information on Ability Building Colours’ range of coatings as well as their concrete and mortar admixture products please click here.
