Exterior painting of an industrial building is the process of applying paint or other coatings to the outside surfaces to protect the building from the elements and improve its appearance. The order of those two aims is deliberate. On an industrial building the coating is protection first.
It starts with the substrate
Metal, steel, aluminum, concrete, brick and block all behave differently. They corrode differently, they hold a coating differently, and they need different preparation. The first question on any exterior job is what the building is actually made of, because that decides the coating system rather than the other way round.
Surface preparation decides the outcome
Before you can paint, there is a crucial list of things to do if you want the job done right. Surface preparation removes existing contamination, rust, mill scale and failed coating, and leaves a sound surface that the new system can bond to. The method is chosen for the substrate: needle guns and rotary scalers on heavy corrosion, dry ice blasting or pressure washing where cleaning rather than profiling is what is needed.
Most premature coating failures trace back to this step, not to the paint.
Choosing what goes on
We keep you informed about the process and the products, matched to your needs and to what the structure actually requires, and we recommend cost-effective solutions rather than the most expensive specification available. A coating that outlasts the ownership of the building is not a saving.
Scheduling
Exterior work is weather-dependent and operations-dependent at the same time. We work with you on scheduling so the painting fits around what the facility has to keep doing, and so that the coating goes on in conditions where it will cure properly.
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