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News Release from: Beeck GmbH & Co KG | Subject: Beeck active silicate paints
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 August 2007
Beeck breathing, bonding mineral paints
now in UK
Whole range of Beeck's active silicate paints and treatments for plaster and masonry surfaces is now available in the UK.
Beeck traditional silicate paints are strong on science They integrate chemically with a building's materials
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 21 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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They create a permeable, crystalline, self cleaning surface which breathes with the base material: plaster, render, stone, brick or concrete.
This is not the impermeable crust of petrochemical acrylic paints which eventually bubble and crack and peel.
Beeck's science may be traditional but its silicate paints come in more than 300 twenty first century light-fast colours.
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the Beek-Colorsil range includes the primary colours and more than a hundred intermediate hues.
Beeck-Antik is a wide selection of matt, light-fast colours appropriate for use in historic restoration work.
Because they form a crystalline surface, Beeck silicate paints are repellent to surface water, repellent to algae and fungi, and they have a zero surface spread of flame rating.
Like Beeck's entire range of surfacing products, its active silicate paints are made from natural materials and are environmentally safe.
They are among the few genuinely pure mineral masonry paints.
And Beeck produces all the materials needed to clean or prepare a surface ready for the long-life treatment.
When they do finally break down, they remain inert and non-toxic.
The range includes Beeckosil, the main active silicate paint, the two-pack Beeck Pure Crystalline Finish for plaster and absorbent stone, Beeck Indoor Quartz Paint for historic buildings, Beeck Transparent Stone Glaze for stone facades, Beeckoton 2000 for concrete, and Beeck Insil designed for the large interior wall surfaces.
In addition there is a range of compatible fillers, pigments, fixatives and plaster.
Editors' notes The company.
Beeck silicate paints have been developed and researched since the late nineteenth century by the same firm, Stuttgart-based Beeck'sche Farbwerke, when Ludwig Beeck started making waterglass-based pure sodium silicate paints in 1894.
Beeck'sche Farbwerke, has stayed with natural and traditional paints ever since and the company has a special role in European historic building work.
Long committed to using only natural base products, such as minerals, natural resins and natural oils its products are widely used in Europe for modern building work as well as refurbishment and conservation.
The paint.
Water vapour passes straight through Beeck active silicate paints which are part of the vapour permeable surface of a building.
Their potash sodium silicate-base material binds permanently to the minerals in the masonry substrate in a chemical process known as silification.
This results in the deposition of silica dioxide across the outer section of the mineral substrate's pore system.
with pigments in the surface zone.
The bond between Beeck silicate paints and the substrate is irreversible.
The result is a hard crystalline surface through which vapour can pass unrestricted- unlike common acrylic emulsion masonry paints which form an impermeable crust.
When the silica dioxide eventually breaks down it forms inert materials with zero toxic residues.
Comprehensive data.
The company's web site is in English, French and German and is where detailed technical information sheets for each product and application guides can be downloaded.
Full technical support is available from Beeck's UK distributors, Womersleys and the Cornish Lime Company.
Telephone 0800 783293.
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