VINYL PAINTS FOR MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS Available to Purchase

Vinyl coating systems provide an outstanding combination of properties—toughness, flexibility, abrasion resistance, adhesion, weatherability, water resistance and chemical resistance—that have enabled such coatings to have a proven record of long term performance unsurpassed by any other type of coating. Fifteen or twenty years are quite common terms of satisfactory protection, with only occasional spot touch‐ups needed; this means low maintenance costs per year of life for the protection of structural steel. Since the labour costs for adequate metal preparation, such as blast cleaning, and for applying the coatings is estimated to cover some 80% of the total cost of a job, the importance of a good, long term protection can be readily appreciated.