Britain's best source of building product & construction news

Made in Germany, the Beeck range of active silicate paints and treatments for plaster and masonry. The paints are said to integrate chemically with a building's materials to create a permeable, crystalline self-cleaning surface which breathes with the base material: plaster; render; stone; brick or concrete. This is not the impermeable crust of petrochemical acrylic paints which eventually bubble, crack and peel. Because they form a crystalline surface, the company's silicate paints are repellent to surface water, fungi and algae.