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Timonox Flame Retardant Coatings
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Timonox Flame Retardant Coatings

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Crown Trade Timonox is a series of flame retardant coatings designed for walls, ceilings, and wood-based substrates. Developed by Crown Paints, these coatings aim to slow flame spread, providing crucial evacuation time and potentially saving lives.
Benefits of Timonox
Timonox offers enhanced flame retardancy, high ratings in British and European fire tests, and a variety of decorative finishes and anti-graffiti options. The products are water-based or solvent-free, ensuring ease of use and minimal disruption.
Fire Risk and Solutions
Multi-layered paint coatings can increase fire risks by spreading flames quickly. Timonox products comply with current and future fire safety standards, offering reliable solutions for new projects and existing coating upgrades.
Legislation and Duty of Care
Building owners and managers must minimize fire risks under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005. Timonox provides a cost-effective solution to meet these legislative requirements.
Case Studies
Without Timonox: A Cheshire hospital fire highlighted the dangers of multi-layered paint build-up, which reduced fire ratings and allowed rapid flame spread.
With Timonox: In Birmingham, Timonox coatings prevented fire spread in a high-rise block, proving their effectiveness.
Product Range and Support
Crown Trade Timonox offers a comprehensive range of products, including anti-graffiti systems and extensive color options, with technical and sales support for effective implementation.
Specifications
The document details the use of Timonox Vinyl Matt, Acrylic Eggshell, Vinyl Silk, and Acrylic Satin on substrates like plasterboard and particleboard, with specific coverage rates and drying times.
Application Procedures
Procedures include using alkali-resisting sealers, intumescent basecoats, and various topcoats, emphasizing the importance of following the recommended sequence for optimal performance.
Standards and Testing
Timonox products have been tested to British and European standards, including BS 476: Part 7 and BS EN ISO 11925-2, with independent assessment by Warringtonfire.
Recommendations
The document recommends using Timonox to maintain or upgrade fire ratings, with guidance on selecting finishes and colors.
Key Data
Tables summarize the performance of different Timonox systems, detailing maximum coverage per litre and classification numbers, with test reports available upon request.
Conclusion
Crown Trade Timonox products enhance fire safety in building interiors while maintaining aesthetic appeal through a wide range of decorative finishes.
Specifications
- Timonox Bonding Primer: Covers up to 12m² per litre.
- Timonox Undercoat and Acrylic Satin: Covers up to 14m² per litre.
- Timonox Scrubbable Matt: Covers up to 14m² per litre.
- Timonox Acrylic Eggshell, Vinyl Silk, and Vinyl Matt: Covers up to 14m² per litre.
Procedures
- Application methods include brush, roller, or spray.
- Recoating times vary from 4 to 15 hours.
Standards and Class Ratings
- Timonox products maintain Class 0 ratings on non-combustible substrates and upgrade combustible substrates from Class 3 or 4 to Class 0.
Recommendations
- Use Timonox systems for flame retardant and durable finishes.
- Anti-Graffiti systems include Timonox Clear Top Coat and Graffiti Remover.
Environmental and Safety Information
- Crown Paints emphasizes sustainable practices and provides Safety Data Sheets for all products, with customer support contact information available.
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Protection For walls, ceilings & wood-based substrates

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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.

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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

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“... 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 painted...

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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 highest...

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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 The...

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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 use...

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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 flammable,...

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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 corridor...

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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,

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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.

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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 certification...

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