Paint and decorating products are essential for achieving a professional finish, whether you're refreshing interiors, protecting exterior surfaces or completing detailed trade work. At Thomas Graham, we supply a comprehensive range of paints, primers, varnishes, fillers, tapes, brushes, rollers and surface‑prep essentials from trusted brands used across construction, maintenance and DIY. From durable industrial coatings to everyday decorating supplies, you’ll find everything needed to prepare, protect and transform surfaces with confidence.
Corroless Rust Treatment
Rust converters, anti-corrosion primers and epoxy topcoats for stopping rust and protecting steel long-term.
Decorative Paints
Fillers, decorative paints and specialist finishes for refreshing walls, wood and radiators around the home.
Floor Paint
Epoxy and polyurethane floor paints for protecting and colouring concrete, wood and steel floors.
Metal & Steel
Metal paints and topcoats for protecting and colouring railings, gates and steel structures indoors and out.
Primers
Primers and undercoats for sealing surfaces and preparing metal, wood and masonry before a topcoat.
Specialist Paint
Specialist coatings for fire resistance, anti-vandal protection, marine use and other demanding environments.
Spray & Paint Equipment
Brushes, spray guns and preparation tools for applying a smooth, professional paint finish.
Thinners
Specialist thinners and solvents for mixing paints and cleaning surfaces, ensuring smooth application.
Frequently Asked Questions
Using a Spectrograph, that defracts light through your paint sample we can product a match to your colour sample. Some practical restrictions apply- so if you would like to send us a colour sample to match for your paint, give us a call first, so we can give you technical advice at every step.
If the paint you are overcoating is solvent based- yes. All our paints are solvent based and if you used it on top or under any other product (synthetic/ white spirit based, water based, oil based etc.), a reaction is likely to occur (wrinkling, peeling, not drying).
Most anti corrosive primers use Zinc Phosphate corrosion inhibitors. Corroless corrosion inhibitors are unique to Corroless and have been developed and refined over 50 years. This track record means we can offer paint specifications for 5, 10, 15 and 25 years to first maintenance. Corroless products have been the go to anti corrosion solution for the offshore and petro-chemical industry for many decades.
We have two options that you can pick from, depending on the type of protection and finish you would like to achieve on your paint job.
Intermediate option is our ARCFORCE DEFENDER Anti Rust Chassis Paint, that comes in two finishes: semi-gloss and gloss and we can tint to any colour of your choice.
Premium option Is the Corroless S2 primer, followed by the RF16 glass reinforced top coat that is a gloss finish coating that we can tint to any colour of your choice OR the Corroless QDR3 black glass reinforced primer finish coating (we strongly advice to do 2 coats if you decide on this product).
All above are one coat products and can be applied as such, as long as the minimum dry film thickness is achieved. If you are unsure, you can apply a second coat, ensuring the first coat has fully cured before applying the second coat.
Another option is our ARCFORCE CAMOSHIELD Anti Rust Primer – 2 coats followed by a top coat of your choice.
You can use all options listed above, however you must etch prime first, using any of the products below:
Etch Primer
Mordant Acid T-Wash
Our single pack TF95 will do this job, however, please be aware that you may not get an exact match as there are often shade differences between batches.
Poor preparation of surface. Painting over grease or oil and rust. Resulting in coating delamination.
Painting at the dew point. Moisture on the surface of the material when painted over acts as a barrier between the material and the paint causing adhesion failure. Running a finger over the surface will soon show if there is moisture on the surface.
Solvent entrapment. Second coat been applied before the first has fully cured, causing greatly extended curing times. In extreme cases and at certain times of the years this could take weeks.