Description
Pillarbox Red
Protek Royal Exterior in Pillarbox Red is a bold, bright and eye-catching shade, which is a perfect match to the distinctive, time honoured colour of traditional UK post boxes. This shade of wood paint is one of our most popular colours for its ability to liven up your garden. Perfect for lovers of vibrant garden designs that are bursting with colour, Pillarbox Red has boasts a brilliant playfulness that will immediately lift your spirits when spending time in the garden.
Whether you want to create a colourful outdoor space bursting with colour, or perhaps you'd prefer to use Pillarbox Red in contrast to darker colours or off-whites, this shade provides you with an excellent way to add a touch of the contemporary and to highlight the key features of your garden. It is also complemented by several shades of green in the Royal Range, such as Meadow Green or Giddy Green. Plus, this timeless shade of red can even look great with a more traditionally designed garden, with its resemblance to the shades of red associated with royalty.
If you have any timber garden product that needs its look refreshing, or perhaps you’ve made a new purchase that you’d like to add a personal touch to, Protek Royal Exterior is undoubtedly one of the best ways to protect the wood and enhance its appearance. Pillarbox Red is a lively shade which is more commonly used by customers to personalise garden furniture, or to decorate summerhouses and playhouses. We also see it used regularly for the exterior walls of garden buildings and it is a popular shade for a variety of interior decoration purposes. If you have an idea in mind of your perfect garden look, Protek can help you to achieve it with their fantastic range of colours.
Protek comes highly recommended by a number of leading manufacturers of timber garden products. What’s more, we’re so confident in Protek at elbec that every wooden building at our showsite in Nottingham is treated with a product from the Protek range. Come and see the quality for yourself!
Sample Pot
Unsure about how the colour will look? We offer sample pots for every Protek product we sell. You can purchase a 125ml sample pot of Protek Royal Exterior in Pillarbox Red. These pots are ideal for testing out how the treatment will look painted on your chosen surface, and can give you an idea of how well your chosen shade will suit your garden. Colour can vary based on many factors, such as the type of surface treatment is painted onto or how many coats are used, so many customers opt for the peace of mind that comes with trying out a colour before purchasing a larger quantity. Sample pots are also popular for customers who need just a small amount of treatment for accents, highlights, finishing touches, or small decorative designs. Alternatively, you can browse our full range of Protek Royal Exterior sample pots if you would like to explore more treatment and colour options.
Features
Protek Royal Exterior provides a rich, long-lasting colour while still allowing the qualities of the timber and the natural beauty of the wood grain to show through. It is ideal for hardwood or softwood and will last for anywhere between two and five years, depending on levels of wear and tear or exposure to the elements. Royal Exterior penetrates the top layers of your timber and creates a coating on the surface. It is also a joinery grade treatment which gets into all the joins and cracks of your timber to offer maximum protection. By treating your timber with Protek, you get an excellent level of water resistance as well as superb protection from mould, rot, fungus and weathering. The weatherproof layer that Protek paint forms even works on horizontal surfaces, unlike cheaper alternatives.
Treated wood also benefits from UV protection as the resins and acrylics filter UV and slow down the effects of colour fading. While providing this excellent protection, Protek creates a microporous coating, which allows the timber to breathe; this is essential for the longevity of your treated wood. When dry, it forms a hard, durable surface. Besides the excellent protection this offers your timber, it also ensures that no colouring will rub off onto your clothes, for example, unlike alternative treatments on the market. Our wood stains are also designed to be flexible and move with timber as it expands and contracts with the seasons.
Protek Royal Exterior is a water-based treatment. This gives it a number of advantages over other types of treatment. Because water is the “carrier” in Protek, this means that when the paint dries it is water that evaporates, not an oil or white spirit. This gives Protek a low VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) rating and a low odour. Protek also use a biodegradable fungicide to minimise the impact of its products on the environment. On top of this, Protek Royal Exterior complies with EN71 parts 2 and 3 relating to child toy safety and flammability. For all these reasons, Protek Royal Exterior has been deemed suitable for use around pets, plants and children, provided a period of 24 hours for the treatment to completely dry is allowed before allowing contact with animals or soil. It will, however, be touch dry within two hours in normal weather conditions.
If you want to know more about how to get the best results from using Protek Royal Exterior, as well as useful, additional information on the product, please read through our “tips for use,” which you will find above.
Coverage
2.5 litres of Protek Royal Exterior will be able to cover approximately 15-25 square metres of timber per coat. Rough sawn timber will require more paint than smooth planed, and different timber will vary. However, this quantity makes it perfectly suited to smaller garden buildings, like tool stores or small sheds, as well as arbours and pergolas. There is also ample paint for a set of garden furniture, a large picnic table, or a number of garden trellis panels. If you feel unsure about the 2.5 litre option being enough for your needs, we recommend looking at Protek's own paint coverage calculator. It is recommended that you apply a second coat Royal Exterior to ensure the timber is fully protected and your finish is consistent. However, a light stain effect that shows off the character of the timber's natural grain can be achieved by applying a single coat of this colour, with an additional coat of Royal Exterior Clear on top to provide full levels of protection.
About Protek
Protek is a family run business that was established in the 1980s. They manufacture a range of high-quality wood stains, decorative timber coatings and preservatives. They design treatments that are effective and long lasting with the aim of protecting the user, their timber products and the environment. They use only water-based treatments as they are generally the most environmentally friendly. All of their products are manufactured at their factory in the UK and they are continually striving to improve the efficiency of their processes and environmental credentials.
Important Note on Colour
Although the colour we show with each product is as close as possible to how it will look when painted on timber, there will be variations in colour interpretation on different screens (computer screens, tablet devices, mobile phones etc.) and printing processes may slightly alter the colours. Because of this, the colour you see on your screen, or even if you print out our product information page, may vary from how the colour of the treatment appears in reality. Final colour, when painted, may also be affected by the timber that your paint is applied to (pale softwood as opposed to dark hardwood, for example) and could be affected if you are over-coating previous treatments. If you have any doubts, sample pots are available or you can visit elbec’s showsite where we can show you samples of the whole colour range applied to wooden swatches.