2.5LTR WHITE UNDERCOAT

Crown Trade Fastflow Quick Dry Undercoat (Water-Based)

Crown Trade Fastflow Quick Dry Undercoat is a high-performance, water-based undercoat specifically formulated to provide an excellent foundation for Crown Trade's water-based topcoats, such as Fastflow Quick Dry Eggshell and New Build Acrylic Gloss. It offers superb opacity and outstanding adhesion, effectively obscuring previous colours or minor imperfections and ensuring a smooth, uniform base for the topcoat. This advanced water-based formulation means it is quick-drying and has very low odour, minimizing disruption during decoration. It creates a strong bond between the substrate and the finish coat, enhancing the overall durability, depth of colour, and longevity of the final painted surface, while resisting yellowing over time.

Features

• Excellent Opacity: Provides superb hiding power, effectively covering previous colours and stains for a clean, even base.
• Outstanding Adhesion: Creates a strong bond with a variety of prepared substrates including wood, metal, and plaster, ensuring long-lasting topcoat adhesion.
• Quick Drying: Touch dry in 1-2 hours and recoatable in 4-6 hours, allowing for rapid project completion and multiple coats in a single day.
• Low Odour (Breatheasy Formulation): Being water-based, it has significantly lower odour compared to solvent-based alternatives, making it more pleasant to use in occupied spaces.
• Non-Yellowing: Resists the yellowing effect often seen with traditional oil-based undercoats, maintaining the true colour of subsequent white or light topcoats.
• Enhances Water-Based Topcoat Performance: Specifically designed to optimize the finish, depth of colour, and durability of water-based gloss and eggshell paints.
• Good Flow and Levelling: Ensures a smooth, even film that helps to minimize brush marks for a superior final appearance.
• Interior & Exterior Use: Versatile for preparing both internal and external wood and metal surfaces.
• Easy Clean Up: Tools can be cleaned simply with water.

Applications

Crown Trade Fastflow Quick Dry Undercoat is essential for preparing:

• Interior Woodwork: Doors, architraves, skirting boards, window frames, and other interior timber elements before applying water-based topcoats.
• Interior Metalwork: Primed radiators, pipework, and other metal surfaces where a water-based topcoat will be used
• Exterior Woodwork: External doors, window frames, fascia boards, and other timber elements before applying water-based exterior finishes.
• Exterior Metalwork: Railings, gates, and other suitably primed external metal surfaces before applying a water-based topcoat.
• Colour Change: Particularly effective when transitioning from a dark colour to a lighter water-based topcoat.
• Where Speed and Low Odour are Critical: Ideal for projects where quick turnaround and minimal disruption are required.