Coating area

Items

Rolled sizes come from EN 10365 and EN 10056-1; tubes, hollow sections, plates and bars are worked out from the dimensions you enter. Plates: thickness and width here, length in the length field.

Surfaces counted

Tubes and hollow sections
Plates

Sections count their whole outside perimeter. Inside surfaces of tubes matter for hot-dip galvanising and for open, vented members; a sealed hollow section is coated outside only.

Paint for this area

optional, one coat
µm
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Volume solids from the product data sheet. The loss factor covers overspray, surface profile and dead volume: often 20 to 40 % for airless spray on sections, more on small or open steelwork.

Area to coat
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Mass of these items