Colour Matching Paint

Colour-match paint is often referred to as touch-up paint. That description is discouraged. Colour-match paint is primarily designed to colour-match accessories prior to installation, and can cause issues when used to touch up marks on pre-painted cladding.

Where possible, accessories such as nails, spouting brackets, and soft edging should be purchased pre-painted from the supplier. When this is not possible, colour match paint can be used to effect an approximate colour match. When applied to metallic surfaces, a suitable primer should be applied prior to the top coat.

Colour match paint will typically weather differently to the oven-baked pre-painted metal coating, but his not usually a problem when it is used on accessories. Differential fade can, however, cause major problems when colour match paint is used indiscriminately to repair minor blemishes to the paint coating of the roof and wall cladding.

Minor scratches are best left alone. Due to the self-healing properties of the primer and metallic coating, they will not affect the durability of the roof. Minor scratches can be described as scratches less than 3 mm in width that do not go through to the metallic coating, or scratches less than 1 mm wide that do not extend to the substrate. Another rule of thumb is that a minor scratch is not visually noticeable from a distance of 3 metres.

Scratches may be less visually evident over time. If they are minor yet highly visible and it is desired to camouflage them, it is considered acceptable to overpaint them as discreetly as possible, using colour match paint applied with an artist's brush. Spray cans of colour-matching paint should never be used to disguise scratches on installed cladding, as the application area cannot be adequately controlled.

Extensive coating damage to any pre-painted cladding product can only be rectified by replacement of the affected sheet.

Visual Impact of Mismatched Paint

Mismacthed Paint