Tikkurila Unica Akva Maali – Semi-Gloss Door and Window Paint

Tikkurila Unica Akva Maali is a premium quality, water-based acrylic paint specifically designed for doors and windows.

This semi-gloss paint provides outstanding durability and weather resistance, making it ideal for both interior and exterior applications. It adheres exceptionally well to wood and primed metal surfaces, offering long-lasting protection against the elements.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Ultimate Protection for Your Doors and Windows: Formulated to withstand harsh weather conditions, Unica Akva Maali provides long-lasting protection for your exterior wood and primed metal surfaces. Its water-based acrylic formula offers excellent adhesion, durability, and resistance to cracking, peeling, and fading, ensuring your doors and windows look their best for years to come.
• Versatile Application for Interior and Exterior Surfaces: This semi-gloss paint is ideal for both interior and exterior use on various surfaces, including window frames, doors, frames, garden furniture, and even wooden panel surfaces of glazed balconies.
  
• Effortless Application and Quick Drying: Unica Akva Maali can be easily applied with a brush, roller, or spray, offering a smooth and even finish. Its quick-drying formula allows for recoating the next day, minimizing downtime and ensuring a fast project completion.
• Ideal for Maintenance and New Projects: Whether you’re refreshing existing paintwork or starting a new project, this paint is perfect for both. It excels at maintenance painting of industrially painted and lacquered surfaces and those treated with translucent finishes.
  
• Environmentally Conscious Choice: This water-based paint has low VOC content, making it a more environmentally friendly option compared to traditional solvent-based paints. It helps reduce your impact on the environment while ensuring a beautiful and durable finish.
  
• Wide Range of Colors Available: Unica Akva Maali can be tinted in a wide array of Tikkurila exterior colors using A BASE or C BASE, allowing you to find the perfect shade to match your style and complement your home’s exterior.
  

Fields of Use:

Unica Akva Maali is a versatile paint suitable for a variety of applications:

• Exterior: Window frames, doors, frames, garden furniture
• Interior: Doors, window frames, paneling
• Other: Wooden panel surfaces of glazed balconies

Technical Specifications:

• Gloss: Semi-gloss
• Coverage: 7-9 m²/l
• Can sizes: A BASE: 0.225 l, 0.9 l, 2.7 l, 9 l; C BASE: 0.225 l, 0.9 l, 2.7 l
• Application method: Brush, roller, conventional spray, airless spray
• Drying time: Dust dry in 0.5 hours. Recoatable the following day. Ready to use hardness after 2-3 days.
• Density: approx. 1.20 kg/l depending on color, ISO 2811
• Light resistance: Does not turn yellow
• Volume solids (%): 40
• VOC: EU VOC-limit value (cat A/d) 130g/l(2010). Unica Akva Maali contains VOC max. 130 g/l.
• Storage: Protect from frost.

Coating System Description & Warnings:

While not explicitly stated as a system, the product data sheet provides information on surface preparation and priming for different materials. This indicates that using appropriate primers enhances the performance of Unica Akva Maali.

Coating System:

1. Surface Preparation: Clean and prepare the surface according to the instructions provided (remove dirt, mold, loose material, etc.).
2. Priming:
3. For bare exterior wood: Tikkurila priming oil followed by Teho Primer.
4. For bare interior wood: Otex Primer
5. For bare exterior metal: Rostex Super Akva Primer
6. For bare interior metal: Rostex Super Akva or Otex Primer
7. Topcoat: Apply two coats of Unica Akva Maali.

Warnings:

• Not recommended for powder-coated aluminum surfaces.
• If using Otex primer, allow 2 weeks for the primer to fully cure before applying the topcoat.
• When using bright red, yellow, or orange Unica Akva Maali, prime with a light-colored primer.

For complete product details, safety information, and application instructions, please refer to the Product Data Sheet.