Priming / Painting

Once steelwork has been blast cleaned, it starts to rust rapidly; with our damp blast sand jet this happens in a matter of minutes.

Zinga is a one-component cold applied galvanic zinc coating. Its unique formula provides environmentally safe cathodic protection to steel comparable with hot dip galvanising, with the added advantage that it can be applied, on site, like a paint.

A set of large fenceposts prepared on site and then galvanised on site using Zinga 2005.

We also use other products, from moisture curing urethane products from MCU coatings for example, and topcoats from Firwood. The Moisture Curing Urethanes work down to -15 degrees C and at high humidities. This allows on site painting to take place, outside in Winter! Much of the Aircraft Hanger below was painted with snow on the ground - the paint coped with the conditions much better than the painters!

A complex web of metal in an ex Aircraft Hangar - cleaned and primed with MCU Aluprime Spring 2009. (easier to see in the photo the sections that haven't been painted. To add to the complications, due to other site works - the painting had to be done at night!

We have suitable access platform and 'working at height' permits that has also meant that we have undertaken other painting tasks - such as the concrete ceiling of a water pumping plant.

Playground equipment painted with Firwood's primers and topcoats. December 2007

Cast Iron Pillars - in a converted block of flats in Sheffield 2008, Primed with Zinga, sealed and topcoated with Intumescent (fire protection) paint.