Color-coated surfaces bring life to gardens and public spaces.
STAINLESS STEEL Color coated
Stainless steel color coated in matte fine structure
Color for your garden
In addition to playing with shapes and materials, color is a great design tool to bring life to the garden. But you can not only set accents in the garden with skillfully designed beds that provide a lush play of colors in every season. Our high-quality metal objects made of color-coated stainless steel, such as fountains, planters or privacy screens, are also a great stylistic element for an individual garden.
Everything important at a glance:
STAINLESS STEEL color coated
User information METAL Tender for basic material
Base material for color coating
For several years now, we have been manufacturing all our color-coated garden objects from high-quality stainless steel V2A as standard and not from "normal" steel, aluminum or hot-dip galvanized steel. This is not the cheapest option, but it guarantees a long life and brings many advantages, which in our view justify the higher price several times.
Which base material is suitable?
- For garden objects made of ordinary steel as the base material, only a limited service life of less than 10 years can be expected without maintenance and care. In addition, the crevice corrosion that occurs is always a challenge in sheet metal constructions with overlapping and butted sheets: in the case of steel sheets as the base material, the gaps must be closed, e.g. by seal welding, at great expense and with unavoidable heat distortion. With color-coated stainless steel sheets, this fundamental problem is circumvented.
- Aluminum as a base material is cheaper than stainless steel, but also much softer. For large-area elements, aluminum is also very susceptible to bulging.
- Hot-dip-galvanized steel has limited suitability for large-area elements, as it often warps and forms unacceptable bulges due to the heat treatment during galvanizing. In addition, the color coating does not adhere well to the adhesive primer coating. In the worst case, it comes off the hot-dip galvanized surface after a few years.
Other advantages of Stainless Steel as a base material
- With scratches in the color coating, stainless steel objects do not corrode thanks to the high-quality base material. This makes the color-coated garden objects very durable and weather-resistant.
- When combining stainless steel elements such as water dishes, screws and fittings with "less noble" base material, such as steel, it usually comes to contact corrosion. This does not occur with the same base material.
Powder coating or painting?
In the past, we hot-dip galvanized simple steel - as described in the textbook - and then powder-coated it. This is called a duplex system. To this day, this is required in many tenders. However, we have made the experience that this method is unsuitable for garden objects with a large surface area: On the one hand, hot-dip galvanizing always results in slight warping of large-surface objects, which is usually rejected by the building owners. On the other hand, with powder-coated objects, scratches, for example, can hardly be repaired on the construction site. We have had better experience with painted surfaces: Damaged areas such as scratches or signs of use that occur during assembly or through use can be quickly and easily repaired with the repair paint supplied.
Color-coated planters in public spaces enliven any cityscape.
Layer thickness of paint coatings
If stainless steel is used as the base material, the coating thickness is relatively unimportant in terms of corrosion resistance and durability, as the base material is already "rust-free". An adhesion primer is normally applied to the stainless steel and then the top coat with color pigments. Standard coating thicknesses are 70-80 µm. If higher layer thicknesses are required, we are happy to offer this as a special design.
Installation and maintenance of color-coated objects
Particularly in the transition area between the garden object and the ground, damage to the paint often occurs during installation, for example, when the objects are dragged across the ground or placed on a hard surface without a protective intermediate layer. Therefore, handle the objects with care during installation and place non-metallic materials such as plastic or rubber mats underneath as a protective layer.
If everything stands securely, then you should regularly (at least annually) inspect the surfaces for damaged areas and immediately repair them with the supplied repair paint. In this way, you can prevent scratches and quirks from becoming the nucleus for the adjacent surface and ensure that you can enjoy the splashes of color in your garden for a long time.
Der farbbeschichtete Quellbrunnen AQUA CUBUS ist ein echter Hingucker im Privatgarten.
Tender text for GaLaBau, for landscape architects and planners
"Basic material stainless steel, material no. 1.4301, AISI 304 (V2A) or equivalent. Material properties according to DIN EN 10088-2. Visible surfaces according to RAL/ DB ......, color ...... Fine structure painted following DIN EN ISO 12944. Coating material is UV resistant and suitable for outdoor use."
Installation and maintenance of color-coated objects
Particularly in the transition area between the garden object and the ground, damage to the paint often occurs during installation, for example, when the objects are dragged across the ground or placed on a hard surface without a protective intermediate layer. Therefore, handle the objects with care during installation and place non-metallic materials such as plastic or rubber mats underneath as a protective layer.
If everything stands securely, then you should regularly (at least annually) inspect the surfaces for damaged areas and immediately repair them with the supplied repair paint. In this way, you can prevent scratches and quirks from becoming the nucleus for the adjacent surface and ensure that you can enjoy the splashes of color in your garden for a long time.