A liquid painting service can help impart durability and lasting value to wood, glass, fiberglass, plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, and a variety of other materials. They will first prime these materials and then coat them with liquid paint. They can apply the paint to both assembled products and individual parts made from these materials. By doing this, they can shield the products and parts from scratches, corrosion, and the ill effects of heat. This, in turn, ensures that the products and parts will continue to operate efficiently and for a longer duration.

Let’s Understand Liquid Paint

Liquid paint consists of a liquid binder with the paint color suspended in it. The liquid binder contains solvents, pigments, and curing agents. Its exact composition, however, can vary according to the type of the surface you want to paint. For the liquid paint application, a liquid painting service will use a pressurized canister to spray it on the surface. After finishing the spraying, it is necessary to cure the painting surface by exposing it to natural or artificial heat.

It is possible to cure liquid paint at normal room temperature and at varying temperatures in an oven. The curing process that you utilize is dependent on the liquid binder you are using and on the material that you are painting. During the heating process, the liquid binder will evaporate, leaving only the paint residue on the surface.

Unlike with the powder coating process, a very high level of heat is not generally necessary for curing liquid paint. It is therefore very well suited to coat non-metallic surfaces that cannot withstand a high degree of heat, such as plastic, rubber, and glass. If you expose these materials to high heat, they will either melt or warp and become completely untenable for further use. It would, therefore, be problematic to try and coat these surfaces with powder coating, but it is an easy matter with liquid paint.

Also, on certain surfaces for certain purposes, you may need to have a thinner coat application. In such cases, the use of liquid paint is preferable to that of powder coating as the former gives out a thin coat in comparison. You can even get a coat as thin as 15 micrometers with liquid paint.

If you require different surface textural effects, you can get those with liquid paint too. On certain surfaces such as car surfaces, you can use liquid paint to produce a smooth effect. You can go for a rougher texture, on the other hand, when painting the car’s exhaust system. You can also create soft and design type textures for a variety of objects ranging from ordinary pens to cupboards.

Compared to the other main coating technologies like powder coating and electrocoating, you will find more color options available with liquid paint. Not just that, you can mix different colors to produce unique color shades of your own choice.

Painting with liquid paints is not just about aesthetics though. You can use the paint as a primer on metals to prevent corrosion. You can also use the liquid paint as a middle coat before the application of the final coat.

You can use liquid paint to coat small as well as large parts, both for one-off and bulk items. You couldn’t do this with powder coating and electrocoating.

In addition, liquid paints are inexpensive, and you can buy them in small quantities if you only have a small area to paint and in larger quantities if the area is large. This makes for more economical use and less paint wastage.

What Makes a Liquid Painting Service Unique?

When you hire a liquid painting service, they will analyze your project to decide on the processes to use. They will plan how to implement these effectively to finish the work on schedule. They will have trained personnel and advanced equipment to achieve the desired paint finishes. Depending on the product and its material, they will decide if a single coat application is enough or if multiple color coats are essential.

The service can handle small as well as large painting orders and can get the work done smoothly, efficiently, and as per the schedule.