A little bit about the luminous paint
In modern design, this paint is used for interior decoration indoors and for the decoration of facades. With its help, you can create whole compositions, optical illusions and 3D image effects. Most often this is embodied in the interior of nightclubs, restaurants, entertainment centers.
Paint, glowing in the dark, is visible and colorless. This allows you to use it in a variety of different ways. Some people have enough of a small bright drawing, but someone paints the whole wall with an invisible picture.
Visible its variety in natural daylight is no different from ordinary paint. With its help create an image on metal, fabric, self-adhesive films, on walls and ceilings, thereby giving a unique effect to ordinary objects. Invisible fluorescent paint on the contrary is almost invisible in daylight, but bewitches with its glow when it hits the ultraviolet.
Fluorescent paint - an impressive variety of
Luminous paints for walls come in three varieties:
- acrylic art for interior decoration;
- acrylic for finishing the facade;
- is a universal urethane-alkyd.
Artistic acrylic interior paint is used to apply a drawing to virtually any surface, such as concrete, gypsum board, wood, paper, artificial and natural stone, cardboard, particle board, etc. But it is not suitable for working with metal and plastic. Its main components are luminescent pigment and acrylic binder. Paints of this type can be mixed with each other and diluted with water.
Acrylic luminescent paint for exterior is thin-layer and resistant to weather conditions, has a water repellent effect, does not wear off and ideally covers the painted surface. In addition, it is well cleaned and resistant to disinfectant and liquid cleansers.
In order to paint the walls with fluorescent paint, you will need a little magical composition and water for dilution. It is easy to apply to concrete, galvanized surface, cement-fiber boards, mineral plaster, fiberglass, PVC and wood. It does not have an unpleasant odor and does not interfere with diffusion.
Universal urethane-alkyd paint is applicable both indoors and outside. After application, it forms a very resistant coating. It can also be applied to almost any surface, in particular furniture, glass, panel walls, etc. The main advantage of this variety is its practicality and versatility.
How to work with fluorescent paint?
In order to prepare the surface for painting, you must first clean it. To do this, you should wash the walls with water with soap or powder, soda solution( 3%) or ammonia solution. Then wash it off with water.
Then leave the room until completely dry. If the surface was previously covered with calcareous paint or chalk, then this coating should be washed off. So, the working plane has become clean and dry, you can start working. To do this, you need a tool - a cuvette, a roller, a brush, a paint sprayer. To paint any small details, use a brush, for large areas - a roller or atomizer.
The work should be carried out at an air temperature of at least + 5 ° C.Before use, neon wall paint should be thoroughly mixed, if necessary, it can be diluted for a lower viscosity with water, but not more than 10%.
A pattern is formed on the prepared surface, which then will be painted. You can create it using a pencil or a stencil. The coating is applied in two layers. Before you do the second layer, you should let the first dry. The phosphoric paint completely dries out within 24 hours.