On Site Repairs

The picture above shows up a common mistake made by on site installers.

The handrail was sanded at the join and re lacquered with a clear polyurethane product that the installer had lying around in the back of his truck.

NEW PRODUCTS NOW AVAILABLE

As you know we here at Simmonds Polishing see our mission as far more than just painting and Polishing joinery. We strive to be a one stop shop for all the surface coating needs of our clients. Afterall you don’t want the hassle of trying to find someone to attend to a one-off unusual application when its so much easier to simply drop it down to us and let us organise everything.

Oil Finishes

Being at the forefront of joinery surface coatings every day it is interesting to see how preferences change over time with a constant raft of new products coming onto the market. Some products enjoy mediocre success and then fade into the background whilst others seem to take off and become mainstream coatings quite quickly.

A warning on low sheen lacquers

Over the last few years we have seen an ever increasing demand for very low sheen lacquers.

Whereas a few years ago most clients chose 30% satin as the lowest sheen level we are now commonly asked to spray joinery in 10%, 5% and even 0% matt sheen levels.

Liming white finishes / Cerusing

Over the last few years we have seen a revival of a polishing system that dates back to the 1800s. Known as Liming White or Cerusing, it is the application of a white paste during the polishing process that results in a white fleck in the pores of the timber.

Light stains over darker timbers

Currently there are two major trends in staining. Joinery is either being stained extremely dark, or extremely light. The dark stains commonly being requested are usually variations of Black or variations of Dark blackish/brown. Lighter stains are usually variations of white or slightly tinted whites.

Lacquer Additives.

Despite our industry being quite small there is still many hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent every year on research and development. Much of this research is completed by overseas suppliers who’s markets in Europe, Asia, and America are many times larger than ours.