Crown Trade - Professional Interior Paints and Coatings

Crown Trade is one of the world leading coatings company, Crown Trade is one of the most widely used professional coatings brands in the UK. Crown Trade products combine the very best aesthetic and performance characteristics in an inspiring variety of decorative options – from the extensive Crown Trade conventional finishes portfolio, to the specialist Timonox range of flame-retardant coatings.

CUSTOMISED COATING AND PAINT SOLUTIONS

If you would like to improve the level of detail and the accuracy of the specifications you put forward to clients when tendering for projects, Crown Trade can offer you a free, easy-to-use CD-Rom package to help simplify the task.

Paintspec helps you to select the individual coatings and prepare detailed specifications for all sorts of interior and exterior decorative and maintenance work. It guides you through the product selection process, taking into account the substrates involved and their existing finish. It provides detailed reference information on every product in the Crown Trade ranges together with application guidance.

CREATING YOUR PAINT COLOUR

Thanks to the introduction of high-tech spectrophotometers at Crown Trade outlets across the country, paint colours can now be matched exactly to any sample material. This could be piece of fabric, a ceramic tile, or even a scraping of paint from a wall that needs to be redecorated.

Crown Trade colourzone will match any sample perfectly. We don’t just select the closest shade from a library – we will develop a new and unique colour recipe for you every time.

COLOUR SCHEMING

Colour scheme suggestions are another service offered by Crown Trade, as part of a process of consultation. According to requirements, a series of options for interior and/or exterior colour schemes can be presented in the form of a document, to assist you in arriving at the optimal decorative solution.

Computer technology enables us to offer selected clients the facility of digital images to assist in predicting the decorative outcome of a scheme applied to their own building or premises.

Our colour scheme recommendations for multi-occupancy and public buildings will always take account of DDA requirements, thereby assisting the specifier in meeting duty of care obligations in respect of inclusivity of access and navigation.

FLAME-RETARDANT COATINGS

Timonox flame-retardant coatings assist the specifier in meeting duty of care obligations, by helping to maintain routes to safety in the event of fire. Quite simply, Timonox buys precious time for evacuation. Damage to property, prior to the arrival of fire fighters, can also be substantially reduced.

We recommend seeking advice from our consultants in correctly specifying Timonox according to the nature and condition of substrate.

SMART MAINTENANCE ASSET-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

The Smart Maintenance asset-management programme was developed for clients as a response to the best-value initiative within the public sector. At its heart is a three-way partnership between building owner, contractor and Akzo Nobel.

Smart Maintenance allows:

• Optimisation of maintenance budgets
• Reduction in future preparation and maintenance costs
• Development of site-specific specifications
• Achievement of best-value
• Improved tenant / client satisfaction

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

Crown Trade’s customer relations team is always on hand to answer your questions and offer guidance on anything from surface preparation to creating special effects, colour scheming advice, technical information, samples or literature.