Linseed Paints, and the Putty Lamp...
Flaky paint - Rotting windows and sills - Rotting doors - Always having to re-paint your windows - bits of putty falling off - paint all over the glass - Are you fed up with painting and trying to maintain and repair your external doors and windows? Sounds familiar doesn't it!
Well... help is at hand - There is another way, which will reduce your costs, and stop the rot. It will double your painting intervals, and makes it easier to do. Read on...
One of the more expensive aspects of property maintenance is painting. Typically, a house requires painting with gloss external paint every 6 years. This paint cracks and peels easily, and when it does, water is able to penetrate behind the hardened paint, and rot the timber. At Holkham Estate, painting intervals have been extended to nearly 12 years with minor attention in between. This has dramatically lowered their overall maintenance costs.
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| Traditional gloss painted windows | Rot damage - water getting behind cracking paint... |
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| Removing old glass with the putty lamp - it doesnt heat up the glass, so prevents breaking. This glazing pane was broken by children before the job started. | Cleaning off the paint - chemical strippers aren't used, as they can penetrate the timber and surface later, damaging the new paint finish . |
The windows are then painted with warmed raw linseed oil, and any holes filled with putty before painting with linseed paints:
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