Paints, Oils & Waxes

I have newly plastered lime walls is Earthborn Eco Pro suitable to paint them?...

Troubleshooting – Green growth on silicate painted surfaces?...

I have heard that plant-based paints can grow mould. Is this the case?...

I have lovely new lime plastered interior walls when is it safe to paint them?...

Paint in its simplest form consists of a binder, a solvent and a pigment. The binder allows the pigment (colour) to stick to the surface, whilst the solvent gives it flexibility and allows it to be workable. Modern paints are far more complex and have numerous added ingredients to facilitate arti......

My silicate paint does not appear to have bonded to the wall. What are the possible causes?...

Linseed based paints set by absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere and with natural UV light. Therefore painting new joinery in a workshop with no access to natural light will slow down the curing rate dramatically....

Yes – our limewashes, casein paints and a range of clay paints do not contain the white-base titanium dioxide....

I have used hard resin oil on my floor and it has developed water stains why could this be?...

Distemper paints were made up of a variety of ingredients often bound with animal size/glue. If you wet the wall down and the surface goes into a soapy lather then you can be pretty sure the paint is a distemper of some kind....