Investigation of a 31-years-old exterior wall which was painted by fluoropolymer-resin based system

Abstract

High-performance paint film is requested of the paint used for exterior walls of a building. High-performance paint film protects a building from bad effect of ultraviolet ray and rain. In recent years, each paint maker has been proposing about weather resistant paint. In particular, fluoropolymer-resin based system has received a lot of attention as high-weather resistant paint by which exterior walls of a building can be protected for a few decades. Fluoropolymer-resin based system possesses the big binding energy as central feature, and shows the function of high-weather resistance, chemical resistance and endurance. In this report, we mainly report the investigation of a 31-years-old exterior wall which was painted by fluoropolymer-resin based system.