Timonox Flame Retardant Coatings
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FLAME RETARDANT COATINGS For an outstanding finish, you need outstanding products. By choosingTimonox from Crown Trade, you can be certain of a superb finish every time with the significant advantage of flame retardant properties. The quality of our products is the result of Crown Paints' vast experience in decorative coatings and our continual investment in paint and colour technology. Crown Trade Timonox slows down the spread of flames, buys precious time for evacuation and helps to save lives.

Fire Risk / Timonox Solution 06 Duty of Care and Legislation 07 Case Study - without Timonox 08 Case Study - with Timonox 09 A selection of Timonox colours 10-11 Specification decisions and Timonox support 12 Fire testing and paint properties 13 Independent assessment and class ratings 14-15 Crown Trade Timonox product range 16-17 Crown Trade Timonox Anti-Graffiti Systems 18

“... all existing paint films, of unknown origin, and of whatever thickness, age or condition, should be perceived as potentially flammable.” warringtonfire Crown Trade Timonox has a long, well established history of providing a first line defence against the spread of flame, and so offers a comprehensive solution to the perceived ‘Duty of Care’ for building owners, facility managers or employers to protect the occupants of their properties. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (England & Wales) & the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 underline the potential hazard of flame spread on...

Why use Timonox? Specifiers/Building Owners/Facilities Managers: Crown Trade Timonox systems offer a comprehensive flame retardant solution and provide: Crown Trade Timonox systems are painterfriendly, requiring only conventional application techniques and provide: • Improved flame retardancy of a surface • Flame retardant overcoating of correctly prepared & well- • Independently assessed system on a variety of substrates (new combustible, non-combustible and previously painted non-combustible substrates) • Class 0, the highest rating when tested to BS 476, Parts 6 & 7 • Class B, the...

aint build up is a fire risk Multi-layered paint build up is a fire risk New projects Timonox applied to a non-combustible surface provides excellent flame retardant properties, maintaining the rating of the construction. The duty of care100% removal oatings - whether One option when upgrading is to remove all reviously nonBuilding designers, Local Authorities, to a bare, non-combusexisting coatings back Housing Associations tible surface, especially where adhesion is poor. r potential to burn, and building owners have Trade Timonox care’ be applied (and Crown a ‘duty of should to build and...

Two good reasons for using ame retardant paint Two good reasons for using flame retardant paint 1. Duty of Care and legislation 1. Duty owners have a ’Duty of Care’ to achieve and maintain conditions in buildings that reduce risk Building of Care and legislation of injury, risk to life and damage to property in the event of a fire. Building owners have a ’Duty of Care’ to achieve From October 2006 fire safety legislation and maintain conditions in buildings that reduce for buildings in use has been replaced by the Legislation risk of injury, risk2006 fire safety legislation for buildings in...

Case Study without Timonox What can happen Failure to maintain the level of the fire protection classification can result in disastrous consequences. An outbreak of fire in a Cheshire Hospital saw a 50 metre corridor engulfed in flames within three minutes. Investigation into the spread of the fire later showed that the original Class 0 rating of the plasterboard used in the corridor had been reduced to Class 4 spread of flame by the build up of paint. Although the corridor walls were primarily constructed from Class ‘0’ materials, forty years of paint build up had made the surface highly...

Case Study with Timonox What can happen The fire started in one of the flats in Kentmere Tower, a 12 storey high-rise block, owned by Birmingham City Council. Crown Trade Timonox flame retardant systems had been applied to all of the communal areas in the tower, as part of the City Council’s Decent Homes planned maintenance programme. The fire started inside one of the flats but the flames were unable to spread across any communal surfaces due to the application of Crown Trade Timonox. The fire caused extensive damage to the flat and the heat was such that it melted light fittings in the...

A selection of Crown Trade Timonox colours 4 Colour available in the full range of Crown Trade Timonox finishes 44 Colour available in Crown Trade Timonox Vinyl Matt only We take every step to ensure the accuracy of colours, but for technical reasons associated with colour reproduction, the colours shown may not exactly match the paint colours and do not represent a particular finish or texture,

For more information on choosing colour, please see page 19 M^w^m^ SCAN® coding is a proprietary method of systematic colour identification for Crown Paints, protected by intellectual property rights including copyright and trade mark rights. We take every step to ensure the accuracy of colours, but for technical reasons associated with colour reproduction, the colours shown may not exactly match the paint colours and do not represent a particular finish or texture.

Specification decisions and Timonox support Specification Sales Manager site inspection Adhesion tests and sampling for film build Unsound existing coatings Sound existing coatings Generally up to 10 coats of existing paint 2 coats Timonox to achieve Class 0 Optional Glaze Generally over 10 coats of existing paint 4 coats Timonox (Class 4 Upgrade) to Class 0 Optional Glaze Coatings Condition Survey Bespoke Specification Let us provide you with a comprehensive solution. Contact us for: • Coatings Condition Survey • Tailored specification based on coatings condition survey • Test...