Protected Facades, Long-Lasting Performance
The facade of a building is its calling card. It highlights its character, reveals its overall aesthetic, and conveys its value. For this reason, it is essential to preserve its quality and beauty, in harmony with the surrounding urban and natural context. As the external and visible envelope of architecture, the facade is the surface most exposed to weather conditions, sunlight, moisture, and the aggressive effects of air pollution. These factors can negatively affect the performance of this masonry layer, also impacting indoor habitability and wellbeing. From proper maintenance to protective solutions, various interventions help preserve facade quality, improving long-term performance and overall building comfort.
The wide range of CAP Arreghini paints and systems offers many ideal solutions. Resistance to weathering, excellent breathability, and high water repellence are among the key features of CAP Arreghini solutions specifically designed to protect facades.
Between Performance, Safety and Quality
CAP Arreghini has developed a complete range of high-performance paints to protect external surfaces. The Fasadecap line includes professional paints with a high level of colour resistance outdoors, characterised by excellent covering power and the ability to ensure adhesion on different types of substrates.
Starting with Unikocap Active, an extra-matt, water-impermeable yet breathable water-based paint that can also be applied at temperatures close to zero, it stands out for its exceptional adhesion, making it suitable for application without a primer. Alongside it are acrylic paints that ensure high coverage and adhesion to the substrate, siloxane paints that are highly breathable, and elastomeric paints characterised by high elasticity. One example is Elasto Active, a water-based paint made with elastic acrylic copolymers and formulated with synthetic fibres that create a coating resistant to microcracking.
The Advanced Technology of Siloxane Systems
A key indicator of facade quality is how coatings and construction materials react to moisture. High moisture levels promote the penetration of water and gases into masonry, damaging building materials and leading to plaster deterioration. CAP Arreghini siloxane paints respond perfectly to this need by combining excellent breathability and resistance to weathering with high water repellence. Siloxane paints feature a porous yet water-repellent structure that prevents water penetration into masonry while supporting natural vapour diffusion.
The Benefits of Siloxane Paints
Siloxane paints are an innovative solution capable of delivering extremely high performance. Specifically, they provide a dual action of water repellence and waterproofing, allowing masonry to remain intact and dry even in aggressive climatic conditions with frequent rainfall and freeze-thaw cycles. This is due to their unique structure, which creates a microscopic network that allows water, dust and dirt to slide off the surface. The same microporous structure makes these paints breathable, allowing moisture to escape and keeping plaster in optimal condition. Applicable on both new and existing substrates, CAP Arreghini siloxane paints ensure long-term surface quality and lasting colour beauty, resistant to sunlight and ultraviolet rays.
A Catalogue to Inspire
CAP Arreghini offers a wide catalogue of siloxane and acrylic-siloxane paints designed to meet different needs. Among these, Sil2000 Active, stands out. This matt water-based paint combines waterproofing, anti-mould and anti-algae properties with resistance and protection. Its formulation allows it to fill and level the substrate, creating a compact and homogeneous finish with high aesthetic value.
Equally noteworthy is Siloxcap Active, a fibre-reinforced coating resistant to microcracking that creates a barrier against mould and dirt. Made with selected-grain quartz, it produces a uniform surface ideal for painting and maintaining external thermal insulation systems. The range also includes Silomur W and Silomur, which are highly water-repellent and ideal for treating and protecting surfaces such as concrete and fibre cement, bricks and natural stone, without altering their original aesthetic appearance.
Solutions to Improve Insulation
External facades may include an external thermal insulation system that protects both the architecture and the building as a whole, improving living comfort and energy performance. Protecting this system means ensuring its functionality and effectiveness over time. CAP Arreghini Thermocap thick coatings move in this direction, offering solutions specifically designed for coating and maintaining thermal insulation systems. Available in a wide range of colours, Thermocap coatings create a compact, uniform finish that resists weathering and microcracking while maintaining excellent breathability.
A Design Partner for Architects and Designers
In building envelope design, facade paints represent a crucial technical choice. CAP Arreghini solutions provide architects and designers with technical reliability, application versatility and long-lasting aesthetic quality, allowing full control over facade performance both during the design phase and over time. A concrete support for interventions on new or existing buildings, these solutions enhance architectural value and improve overall comfort.
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