How to paint walls and ceilings

Walls and ceilings are essential parts of rooms where we live in. In fact, integrating cromaticlly with furnishing, they create style, design and atmosphere that you desire. Besides to give an aesthetic aspect, paint resolve technical problems to the protection of the supports. For this reason, it's very important to choose a good mural paint. Choosing Italcrom products and following the right advice, you will be always sure to have made the just choice.

Support charatteristic

To verify problems of each materials or support on which applying the product, it's very important in order to make a choice that it satisfies the requirements. Inside wall are generally made of plaster or chalk. Civil plaster is composed from a paste of sand, chalk and water, having added concrete amounts, more or less important, in order to increase the resistance. The handmades of chalk are composed of sulfate of calcium anhydrous. These plasters have optimal aesthetic characteristics but, at the same time, they have insufficient superficial hardness, high porosity and consequently, high absorbent power. In our "Painting cycles" we suggest for every support: problems connected to their characteristics, products and treatments suggested for the optimal solution. Inside wall and ceilings can't be treat with an only cycle, because they have different problems. In painting cycle there is a distinction between kitchen, bathroom and the other rooms.

Characteristics of a good mural paint

Paint must adhere perfectly to the surface which it is destined. The coverings of inside walls, in order to satisfy pratic and hygienic requirements, must be washable easy (specially bathroom and kitchen) and to constitute a defense against humidity, condense and mould for a log-lasting protection of the surface.