Primers are available in both water and solvent based versions.

Exterior Paints:
Cement Paints These provide a coating that assures effective medium range protection against the weather. Special additives equip them to stand up to the rigours of outside exposure. Available in a range of standard colours, adequately light-fast/fade-resistant, in matt finish. A sound application of cement paint, after proper surface preparation, can stretch your repainting cycle to 5 years. Emulsions The outstanding strengths of their high acrylic content help keep their long term excellence intact in exterior use. Given careful and correct surface preparation and priming, these create a tough, enduring coating with superb adhesion and flexibility. Special additives make them exceptionally resistant to algae, fungus and atmospheric erosion. And they open up colours of every hue for the outside of your home, fade resistant for years!

Interior Paints:
There are four categories of interior paint Dry Distemper, Acrylic Distemper, Matt Emulsion and Silk Emulsion in ascending order of price and quality

Emulsions Known generally as "plastic" paints, these are based on a fine dispersion of resin in a solvent, which on drying, creates a remarkably tough, adherent, durable coating. Special additives in emulsions give them an incompara- bly smooth finish, in beautiful shades that last for years. Resistant to water and chemicals, washing makes them smile again. Other special properties keep them free from fungus and algae. They come in three categories: Silk Emulsions are premium acrylic emulsions, with silky smoothness and a luxurious silk-like finish. Their very high acrylic resin content enhances durability, and creates reflectance and smoothness of such a high order that dust cannot settle on it. A silk wall looks fresh long years later. Regular Emulsions produce a smooth eggshell finish, in an equally wide choice of colours, and have almost the same durability as Silk. Combining Silk and Regular judiciously could give your painting project just the right balance between great looks and a long-cycle economy. Economy Emulsions offer the basic strengths of emulsion paint at economy prices. They are still a generation ahead of Distempers on durability, washability, fade-resistance and smoothness.

Distempers The traditional economy paints, they can produce a perfectly satisfactory finish at reasonable cost, given proper application and workmanship. Their lifecycle is shorter. Dry Distempers (which come in powder form) and Oil Bound / Synthetic Distempers are not washable. Acrylic Distempers, being partly based on acrylic resins, produce greater smoothness and washability. Properly maintained, they keep their good looks for 3 to 4 years.