About Us

Technical Paint Services is one of the last traditional specialist paint manufacturers in Britain...

...and remains the independent family business that has successfully served the trade, industrial, corporate and domestic markets with a range of paints, coatings and ancillary products, for over sixty years. More recently we have become stockists for Zeroflame Flame Retardant coatings for wood and metal surfaces. Technical Paint Services - specialist paint suppliers. Call for paint advice.

If you have an usual paint requirement or are faced with painting a difficult or unusual surface (substrate) of which you have no experience, please contact us on 0845 230 1244. We are creators and manufacturers of individual, one off paints, sell more familiar mass-market products and continue providing unique solutions that form the basis of an ever-increasing international reputation. As always, we continue to strive for innovative ideas to solve the many new challenges directed at us. We sell our paints and coatings direct and are happy to supply in almost any quantity at home and abroad.

Although we are selling more water-based products, working hand-in-hand with trade and regulatory organisations to reduce Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), we pride ourselves on manufacturing traditional lead-based products for which there remains a strong demand. We are committed to helping with the issues of VOCs, recyclable products and associated "Green" matters. We use the finest ingredients and manufacture to traditional methods and formulations, whilst continuing to create and sell new and exciting paint and coating products for our customers by being intuitive, flexible and approachable. BS4800, BS381C & RAL colours available. We are increasingly producing paint specifications for architects and engineers..

Please read our Substrate Index (list of surfaces to be painted or treated, complete with details of  products suitable for application) before searching our Product List or contacting us. This will help determine which product you require, or if no product exits, what steps you need to take to help us help you. Our Price List is available for download.

Please contact us using the short Enquiry Form provided or call 0845 230 1244.

"Dear Chris.

We are just so, so grateful to you guys! You may recall that I had contacted ICI about the problem I'll describe, and they stated that if Technical Paint Services couldn't come up with a solution, nobody could!

I had created a through-lounge, and we had decided to paint the floorboards rather than to have carpets. You may also re-call that I had spent some 30 years in on-site management in the construction industry, so thought I knew what I was doing!

I hadn't thought that any preparation of the floorboards was necessary, so applied a water-based polyurethane paint, diluted with 10% water, as a primer. But it blistered extensively. What was interesting was that it didn't blister on some 6mm MDF board that I'd used to simulate floorboards where the old hearth had been removed, nor on the new floorboard where the wall had been removed, nor around the edges of the room (where there would have been 'gripper rods').

So it was obvious that the floorboards were contaminated - most likely from the former rubber-backed underlay (I learned years ago, and through something totally unconnected, that sulphur used in the production of rubber, is highly acidic.)

Having extensively sanded-down the boards to remove the water-based polyurethane primer, I carried out a couple of trial panels. I was sceptical about the results using the water-based primer, so applied a coating of your new shellac-based primer on the other section of the test panel.

The results are amazing! Perfect adhesion to the boards, no signs of any effect of contamination, and good adhesion of the floor paint to your primer!

Thanks again."
Martin S Reid.