Re-coating
Over-painting could extend the lifetime to 30 years and beyond with subsequent over-paints. It is important to choose the timing of the over-paint carefully to ensure the existing coating is still intact and does not require removal.
Over-painting may be carried out far earlier in the building’s lifetime than may actually be necessary. This could be for reasons such as maintaining high building aesthetics and image and restoring the building condition as a requirement at the end of a lease in the case of self-repairing lease contracts. Read More The process of over-painting includes: • Inspection and assessment to identify an appropriate solution.
• Surface preparation – in most cases a wash down of the area to be recoated and removal of any loose paint using abrasives. Any areas of bare metal must be spot treated with an appropriate primer before application of the topcoat.
• Recoating operation – two coats of an approve coating system applied by spray or roller applicationto the required thickness specified by the manufacturer.
• Inspection – important to ensure that the technical requirements of the paint manufacturer have been fulfilled such as paint thickness. Most guarantees for recoating are insistent on this inspection. Hide
Seamsil Application Seamsil is a flexible silicone remedial system, intitialy developed to solve the problem of cut edge corrosion on steel roof cladding, is rapidly becoming recognised as the most versitile and effective metal edge protection treatment in any situation where exposed metal is subjected to aggressive moisture conditions.
For this reason, manufacturers accros a variety of industries are specifying Seamsil in the production of fabrications where resistance to corrosion damage is a requirement.
The Seamsil system has been developed against a background of decades of experience of roof refurbishment and repair. Read More Applications The system can be used on both steel and aluminium claddings adhearing to most coatings:
• PVC
• PVF2 / PVDF
• Silicone Polyester
• Acrylic
• Polyurethane and most paint finishes
Seamsil has been designed as a system specifically to treat corrosion and peel back at cut edges and end overlaps . Seamsil provides the perfect answer to the effective sealing of roof lights. Hide
