Frenchic Al Fresco Inside/Outside Range Paint easily transforms garden or indoor furniture.
This versatile, smooth, and creamy paint is virtually odourless.
Water-based, weatherproof, and durable, it’s perfect for garden chairs, tables, and ornaments.
With 20 colours available, you’ll find the right look with ease.
This self-levelling paint minimises brush marks, and is self-priming and self-sealing, offering great coverage.
It has minimal VOC content and is UKCA and EN71-3 certified, making it safe for children’s toys.
With a low, almost flat finish, it’s suitable for wood, laminate, UPVC, and metal.
Ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, front doors, or any garden or indoor furniture, it revitalises old pieces, saving you from buying new ones.
Widely used by professionals, it's also perfect for beginners, as it’s hard to go wrong with this paint.
Key features:
- Transform your outdoor or garden furniture
- Can also be used indoors
- Versatile, eco-friendly, smooth, creamy and virtually odourless
- Ideal for Trades people and for DIY
- Great range of colours
- Can be used on wood, laminate, UPVC and metal
Colours available:
General information:
- Water-Based: Weatherproof, suitable for interior and exterior use.
- Versatile: Ideal for wooden furniture, laminate, powder-coated radiators, UPVC, and ceramic wall tiles (avoid very wet areas). Can be thinned with up to 10% tap water for internal walls.
- Floor Use: Suitable for interior wood, concrete, and most laminate floors with correct application; maintenance may be required.
- Low VOC: Minimal VOC content with virtually no odour.
- Certified Safe: UKCA and EN71-3 certified (safe for children’s toys).
- Ingredients: Chalk, clay, titanium dioxide, resin, talcum, preservative.
- Self-Priming: No primer or undercoat needed.
- Finish: Flat, almost no sheen.
- Self-Sealing: No top coat required for durability.
- Self-Levelling: Minimal brush marks.
- Resistant: Mould and algae resistant.
Coverage
- A 750ml tin will provide a single coat of up to 12.5m2.
For a durable finish, a minimum of 2 coats is required, so your 750ml tin should provide full coverage for just over 6m2 on non-porous surfaces like laminate or metal.
Limited Edition 500ml tins will provide a single coat of up to 8.5m2.
- Porous, or ‘thirsty’ surfaces like bare wood or MDF, tend to absorb paint meaning additional coats are likely to be required to achieve a durable finish.
In this case, your 750ml tin will provide less than 6m2 of full coverage.
If you apply the paint too thinly, durability may be affected.
Preparation
- Ensure surface is in suitable condition for painting and free from grease, wax or penetrating substances.
If previously painted, remove loose or flaking paint.
- Surface preparation required in addition to the above – clean with Frenchic Sugar Soap, rinse and dry thoroughly.
Hand-sand sufficiently to abrade the surface.
Wipe off any dust, paint away!
- Take care on opening the tin lid – a Frenchic tin opener is recommended
- Stir thoroughly with a wide implement, such as a Paint Paddle, prior to each use
Application, drying and curing (hardening)
- Ideal Conditions: Avoid direct sunlight. Paint when temperatures are between 10°C and 32°C and humidity is below 85%. Do not paint if rain, frost, fog, or temperatures below 10°C are expected in the next 48 hours. Summer is generally the best time for outdoor painting.
- Surface Preparation: Ensure exterior wooden surfaces are completely dry, especially after rainfall. For ferrous metal, treat rust, remove loose coatings, and sand smooth. Apply 2 coats of Frenchic Finishing Coat as a base.
- Application: Use a high-quality brush or roller, or thin with up to 15% water for spraying. Avoid overworking the paint to allow self-levelling.
- Drying Time: Allow at least 2 hours between coats.
- Curing: Takes up to 3 weeks. Handle gently until fully cured.
- For Floors: Avoid walking on painted areas for 4 hours, then use socks for the next 7 days.
Keep pet claws off the surface during this time.
Do not let the surface get wet for at least a week and treat it with care for up to 3 weeks.
Clean up and storage
- Reseal tin after use.
- Clean up any spills immediately with water.
- Wash brushes in warm, soapy water.
- Do not store where the tin could be subjected to damp, frost, freezing or high temperatures.
