THE SUPER-SHIELD COMPANY

Super-Shield is the UK’s foremost coating company, providing long lasting protection to homes and properties the length and breadth of the country. The Super-Shield product has been in use since the 1979 and has stood the test of time and is the only coating product to come with a 30 year guarantee against chipping peeling or flaking.

 

The Origins

Super-Shield can trace its roots back to 1979, but the origins of the base material it uses goes back to the dark days of World War Two. Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi forces and survived by being supplied by the convoys that crossed the U-Boat infested North Atlantic. Much of the cargo, especially the armaments and vehicles, had to be carried on deck and in the beginning much of it was rendered useless or badly damaged by the constant pounding of the salt spray and waves.

The solution came from none other than Sir Barnes Wallis, the inventor of the Dambuster’s bouncing bomb. (He originally trained as a marine engineer). His laboratory developed a coating that could be sprayed onto the tanks, guns and vehicles to protect them from the elements and then peeled off on their arrival in Britain.

After the war the product fell into disuse until the late Seventies when a more permanent version started to be used to protect buildings. The material used by Super-Shield is a direct descendant of the WW2 material but has been highly refined to fit its modern purpose.

Although Super-Shield is applied like a paint through a special spray-gun, the similarity ends there. Super-Shield is not a paint – it is a unique building product made up of a special blend of resins, minerals, titanium, fungicide and other chemicals that offer exterior protection like no ordinary paint ever could.

• Super-Shield keeps out cold and wet

• Super-Shield insulates your home to keep warmth in and damp out

• Super-Shield protects against all the elements – including salty sea winds!

Everyone of a certain age will remember the phrase “it’s like painting the Forth Bridge” for a never-ending task or one that takes so long as to need repeating as soon as it’s finished. That all came to an end in 2011 when the Forth Bridge was painted with a high-build epoxy glass-flake epoxy paint and then coated with a special a top coat (Coloured ‘Forth Bridge Red’ to emulate the original red oxide colouration the bridge had when it first opened in 1890). The technology was similar to Super-Shield; similar –  but not quite the same, since the bridge was coated with two special materials applied by hand. Super-Shield has its components combined into one to speed the spray application and be more suitable for buildings rather than steel bridges. Yes, Super-Shield contains epoxy glass-flake but is also contains perlite for insulation, mica to act as a plasticiser and inhibit cracking, a fungicide to eliminate algae around gutters and down-spouts, polyester resin to bond to the substrate and never come off and titanium to maintain colour stability. The Forth Bridge engineers reckon the their coating will last for 20-25 years. We guarantee Super-Shield for 30 years!

• Super-Shield long-life wall-coating offers maintenance free, decorative and weather proof protection that is guaranteed against chipping, flaking or peeling. Super-Shield is now celebrating its 40th anniversary and based on the product’s performance over that time we have recently increased the guarantee period from 20 years to 30 years – and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t go on performing just as well for a lot longer than that!

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