Mighton Products Exterior Joinery Paint is your perfect partner on windows, doors and any other outdoor timber application. Professional Builder finds out more from former joiner and company founder, Mike Derham
If you want to know if an exterior joinery paint will stand up to the elements then you either have to be a time-served decorator, or you’ll need access to a lab to examine it. On both counts the Mighton Products Exterior Joinery Paint range will pass the test.
“Mighton Products has been supplying Exterior Joinery Paints for more than a decade and, in that time, has already built a loyal customer following,” explains company Chairman, Mike Derham. “It’s a natural extension to our window and door hardware business, and we partner with a prestigious European manufacturer as a sole UK distributor of its alkyd-emulsion Exterior Joinery Paint. At the same time, the product is supported by a comprehensive and cost-effective Matching & Mixing service.”
Mighton Products can service either the joinery shop that’s fabricating windows and doors – and is invariably in the market for a good quality primer – or the builder who wants to paint the windows on site. In either instance, what is supplied is a high-quality, hard wearing, water-based alkyd exterior joinery paint.
So, what exactly is an alkyd paint and what are its properties compared to rivals? In the UK acrylic paints would be the more common solution for exterior joinery projects, but Mighton’s waterborne alkyd range has some significant benefits. It is the difference at the molecular level that sees them outperform the alternative.
Structure
Acrylic binders are, when examined under a microscope, made up of shapes akin to ping pong balls, stacked on top of each other. If you throw water over a bucket of actual ping pong balls then all the water will find a way to the bottom. Alkyd however, have a breathable but closed structure. That means moisture can evaporate from the wood but much less water is going into the wood. This will prevent shrinkage and swelling in the material, especially in and around the joints.
The result is a much tougher and more durable surface coating. In addition, not only is the wood less susceptible to any damaging water penetration, it also has properties akin to a filler, where knots and other natural surface features of the wood are more effectively concealed. The paint can be applied by spray gun, brush or roller, and there’s a choice of gloss, semi gloss and matt finishes. The benefits don’t stop there, however, because the Mighton Exterior Joinery Paint range is also suitable for painting over Accoya high performance modified wood. This is a material that is increasingly finding favour in the joinery sector – not least because of a 50- year guarantee in above ground applications. The cell structure of Accoya is changed during the manufacture with the addition of acetic acid. It’s a process known as acetylation, increasing the wood’s strength, whilst making it significantly more resistant to rot and water absorption.
That means no swelling, shrinking or distortion and an eminently suitable exterior joinery solution, including in sash woods, where the wood will be relentlessly exposed to the elements. The glazing beads that run around the window and secure the glass are often Accoya, for example, as are decorative glazing bars that sit across the glass.
Crucially the alkyd-based Mighton Exterior Joinery Paints range will adhere to Accoya – and that is not always the case with some alternative paints. The water resisting performance of alkyd paint itself, combined with the same qualities in Accoya, makes for the perfect couple, where decorators and builders can be doubly confident of the paint’s performance and their homeowner clients’ satisfaction long into the future. The applications don’t stop there, however, because it is important to emphasise that the Mighton Products Exterior Joinery Paint can be used on any dimensionally stable exterior timber whether that’s doors, garden rooms or furniture.
Not only that, the paints are accredited by KOMO. When considering any paint supplier consistency is king and this independent testing body regularly and randomly audits the Mighton Products production facility to ensure that the highest standards are maintained. Again, it provides end users with the reassurance that the recipe, its colour and properties will remain the same, whenever it’s purchased.
Matching & Mixing
For local, jobbing tradespeople their hard earned reputation can be either enhanced or undermined with every job. Performance is inevitably a priority, but that can’t be at the expense of value for money and availability. It is here that Mighton Products’ Exterior Joinery Paints score equally highly, with next day delivery and a very competitive price.
That brings us very neatly on to a service that reveals this manufacturer’s commitment to its customers in its true colours – quite literally as it happens. Thanks to the advanced Matching & Mixing technology at its Cambridgeshire facility, Mighton Products Exterior Joinery Paints can be matched to, and compete with, the prestige products that are always in high demand by homeowners – what you might more colloquially describe as ‘posh paints’.
In fact, Mighton can colour match to virtually any brand or paint – simply enter the name of either or both of those terms into the website and it will do the rest. Over the years the company has matched many 1,000s of different paints and holds the recipe for all of these on its extensive computerised colour library. That means the company can supply an accurately matched product in the amount you want the very next day, whilst it will take no more than two days to deliver a tint that has not previously been produced.
The colour matching of paint is by no means unique to Mighton Products, of course, but there is a crucial difference. What it provides is a quality, fit-for purpose alkyd exterior joinery paint that has been designed specifically for that application– and it does it in colours that would be indistinguishable from far more expensive alternatives. So, it’s durable, highly moisture resistant, independently audited, and Accoya compatible. If that’s not enough then there’s a colour matching service that will deliver premium quality at a significantly lower price point overnight. What are you waiting for? It’s time to get your coat.
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