Azur Restorations Building Tips Paint.

This month in the Brittany Central Journal, Azur Restorations has contributed another building tips article. It’s a continuation from Octobers issue – “Does your brush hold French Paint?”

Here is an extract of this month’s article;

When you’re painting your home, only the best paint will do. The only paint that will give you the ease of applications and the smooth even Finnish are English. The forums are filled with decorators and homeowner discussions on the pain they have with French paint. So what the fuss?

At first glance the main issues with French paint are the lack of quality, colours and value. Dulux once explained that the price of Paint in France is due to fact that; “The French are not mad about decorating their homes and therefore paint is not in demand”.

Is the ingredient of your standard interior paint the key to answering this topic? There are two ways to make emulsion paint, the first was developed in the 1950’s, and it was a miscible solution, consisting of water, mineral spirit and pigment. This evolved into a immiscible solution, (where two liquid agents don’t blend), water, a suspension of solid colour pigment in oil and a liquid polymer to bind everything together, which is what we know of today.

It is no easy feat finding out the exact components, no brands want to provide the ingredients and formulations for which 366 million litres that are sold in the UK alone. Most brands only declare those ingredients that the law requires them to declare (the ones classified as hazardous).

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