Colour restorer for painted surfaces, wood and metal - Guard Industry
A cleaning and restoring product for painted surfaces, wood, metal, plastic and porous materials. It removes signs of dulling and wear, refreshing the colour without repainting.
The one product in the catalogue that is neither a sealer nor a cleaner: a colour restorer for painted surfaces, wood, metal and plastic.
It removes signs of dulling and light wear, so the surface looks itself again without being repainted. It works on paints and varnishes, wood, metal, plastics and porous materials.
Typical uses are the parts that have aged faster than everything around them: painted railings, housings, joinery, garden furniture.
Cleaners work chemically and their pH is far from neutral. Each one has a list of materials it must not touch.
- Read the pH in the technical data. Acidic products (around pH 2) attack metal, galvanised and painted coatings and render; strongly alkaline ones (above pH 12) call for gloves and eye protection.
- Test in an inconspicuous place. On coloured surfaces some products can lift the colour.
- Mask whatever is to stay untouched: joinery, glazing, planting, metal fittings.
- Do not let the product dry on the surface being cleaned - that is the commonest cause of streaks and discolouration.
- Rinse with plenty of water. After pressure washing, let the surface dry all the way through before sealing.
Do not wash a surface warmed by the sun. The product evaporates before it can work and leaves a mark of its own instead of removing one.
- Coats
- 1
- Application method
- cloth, sponge, brush
- Where to use
- indoors, outdoors
- Recommended substrates
- paints and varnishes, wood, metal, plastic, porous materials
- Finish
- colour refreshed without repainting
- Acidic or alkaline - how do I choose?
By the soiling. Acidic for lime efflorescence, cement laitance, mortar residue and scale. Alkaline for grease, oil, soot, algae, moss and organic soiling. Each product's pH is in the technical data.
- Can I use hydrochloric acid instead of an efflorescence remover?
We would advise against it. Hydrochloric acid dissolves the cement binder along with the efflorescence, washes out the joints and speeds the efflorescence's return by opening up the structure of the concrete.
- Do I have to seal immediately after washing?
Not immediately - you have to wait until the surface is dry all the way through. But do not leave it for weeks: a clean, unprotected surface will soil again and the work will have to be repeated.
- How much product do I need?
For ready-to-use products the coverage figure in the technical data says how many square metres a litre will do. For concentrates, work from the dilution ratio - a litre diluted 1:4 gives five litres of working solution.
- Is it a paint?
No. The product works on the existing surface - it refreshes how it looks, it does not lay a new colour. Where a coating has lifted or worn through to the substrate, what is needed is painting, not restoration.
- Where is it not worth using?
The data sheet lists the materials the product works on. On surfaces outside that list - absorbent stone and concrete in particular - the right products are those in "Cleaning and restoration".
The technical sheet and safety data sheet will be available after approval.
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