PaintAcrylic resin
Peinture acrylique
The default paint, and this page’s counter-example: a resin film that covers, washes — and closes the wall.
A covering paint rolled onto brick: the relief stays, but the colour is the film’s.
Photo Michael Cory · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
At a glance
- Water
- Splashes
- Outside
- Exposed
- Floor
- Walls only
- Upkeep
- Almost none
- Vapour
- Closes the wall
What it is made of
Acrylic resins dispersed in water, titanium dioxide, fillers, preservatives and rheology additives.
Application
The support
A dry, flat support: fill, sand, dust, and prime to suit the ground (new plaster, wood, old paint).
Tools
Roller, cutting-in brush, tray, masking tape.
Steps
- 1Cut in corners and edges with the brush.
- 2First coat by roller, in crossed bands.
- 3Second coat the next day, finishing in the same direction across the whole wall.
Drying
Touch-dry in 1–2 h, recoatable after about 6 h; washable after two to three weeks.
The trade’s general sequence, at about 20 °C. Where a producer publishes its own data sheet, that sheet wins.
Price
21 products from 4 producers
Cheapest pot
33.80 €
0.5L
Per kilo, from
not published
Per litre, from
26.90 €
Per m², from
not published
| Product | From | €/kg · €/L | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Satin VeloutéRessource | 33.80 € | 42.00 €/L | — |
| Mat SoyeuxRessource | 34.10 € | 43.50 €/L | — |
| Extérieur Bois MatRessource | 34.60 € | 52.10 €/L | — |
| Mat EssentielRessource | 37.91 € | 26.90 €/L | — |
| Laque SatinéeRessource | 38.00 € | 60.00 €/L | — |
| Satin CouvrantArgile | 41.00 € | 28.05 €/L | — |
| Satin EssentielRessource | 41.10 € | 29.50 €/L | — |
| Usage Intérieur Intensif - Laque intensive - MateMarius Aurenti | 43.30 € | 38.11 €/L | — |
| Mat ProfondArgile | 46.10 € | 31.61 €/L | — |
| Bois & Volets Haute Performance - SatinéeMarius Aurenti | 49.40 € | 45.32 €/L | — |
Material prices incl. VAT as published by this catalogue’s producers, samples excluded. Labour is never included, and a price per m² only exists where the producer publishes a coverage.
Upkeep
The least demanding on the list: washable and long-lived, but vapour-tight, and therefore wrong on an old wall.
- Demands · Almost none
- Closes the wall