About
About this site
A plain spoken reference for owners, engineers and crews who want to understand protective coatings before they specify one.
Why this site exists
Protective coatings are bought on trust and judged years later. These pages explain how coating systems work so owners and specifiers can ask sharper questions up front.
How we write
We describe how materials generally behave and what to check. We leave out prices and performance figures because they vary between products, suppliers and jobs.
Use it with the data sheet
Nothing here replaces the product data sheet, the safety data sheet, an engineer or an experienced applicator who has seen the surface.