When you’re renovating there are so many lessons that are learnt the hard way. I remember when I was younger, just getting into the renovation game I made my fair share of mistakes and some of the more experienced people I spoke with were always there to show me a better way of doing something.

Protecting your bathtub during renovations

If you’ve done any sort of construction or renovation you know just how easily things can get damaged (particularly enamel items like bathtubs) and Murphy’s Law will dictate that it’s usually when all the fittings, tiles and silicon has been done!

Fixing a bathtub that’s been chipped or cracked is always an option, but depending on the amount of damage to the exterior coating of the bathtub, this may not be viable. Not only that but you’re never going to be happy with a repair job on a brand new bathroom item.

Worst case scenario is that you will need to rip out the bath, replace it and re-tile, grout and silicone all over again – at considerable cost! Using our bath protective coatings is like an insurance policy for damage against bathtubs during home constructions. It’s a quick, convenient and affordable way to protect bathtubs on construction sites.

“Our coatings are a roll-on, peel off bath protection coating that is easy to apply and easy to remove.”

Renovating a house or home can be an exciting adventure. The learning curve can sometimes be steep but the rewards are high. If you’re renovating a bathroom anytime soon (or are part way through a new bathroom renovation) it’s worth thinking about how you’re going to protect your brand spanking new bathtub from grout, screws, nails, paint, plaster and other building materials during the renovation process.

Bluedog bath coatings are the perfect solution for you. Roll on and peel off – it’s a simple, easy and affordable way to ensure that when the renovation is done, your bathtub looks brand new.

Low-e glass or low-emissivity glass is an amazing product for keeping out heat and UV light – it can be incredibly expensive to install and therefore expensive to replace should it be scratched or damaged on the job site.

With low-e glass installed in a home or office, the amount of heat that’s conducted through the glass can be reduced by around 30%. This will considerably reduce heat in buildings and can improve thermal efficiency by cutting glare.

Low-e glass can also reduce damage to furnishings and items in a home or office by reducing the UV light that filters through the glass.

Low-e Glass is expensive – it pays to protect it

With the cost of low-e glass creeping up to $400-$500 a square metre, it pays to ensure that it’s protected in the best possible way on the job site. Bluedog Protective Coatings for windows is the perfect product to cover low-e glass as it’s specifically designed to protect windows and glass from paint, grout, plaster and concrete splatter, and the amount used can be adjusted to suit the job.

How Bluedog Protective Coatings for windows protects Low-e Glass

Bluedog Protective Coatings for windows is a roll-on peel-off window protection film that protects windows from all manner of material found on a construction site.

Bluedog Protective Coatings for windows rolls on like paint and then dries into a translucent film-like product. The fact that it can be rolled on means that whatever shaped glass you have (square, round or cut to order) Bluedog Protective Coatings can easily be applied to the entire window surface.

When the project is finished, you simply peel the coating off like a plastic film, and your glass is as good as new!

To see how easy application and removal is, take a look at our videos page.

Call us today on 1800 258 364 to talk about our low-e glass protective coatings.

If you‘ve ever renovated a home or worked in construction you know how easily accidents can happen. Sometimes even small things like dropping tools, spilling paint or using the wrong tape can leave marks, residue, dents, dings and scratches in flooring, walls, benches and windows.

Accidents like these can set your project back not only on budget but also on time whilst you get things fixed. We’ve had many customers with hardwood floors find out the hard way that scratches and marks in the floor can be a lengthy process and expensive to fix.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail

Correct preparation for the protection of your floors can be the difference between your renovation project running smoothly, on time and on budget and a disaster that will stress you out, cost you money and have you sleeping in the dog house.

Most professionals will have all the stuff needed to protect floors when they’re doing upgrades or work on houses, but many times in a renovation project, it’s a last minute consideration and people will throw rugs, old blankets or plastic sheeting down in an attempt to protect floors.

Rugs are for mugs

Throw rugs, whilst a cheap and easy alternative can be dangerous as they group together, tear and move around (which is the last thing you want if you’re moving a heavy item or paints, etc). Throw rugs and drop sheets are also porous so if you spill paint or render this can sometimes soak through onto carpets and floors.

More often than not – particularly if you’re new to renovating, you can get caught up in the project and not notice those paint spills and drops only to remove the rugs or blankets you’ve put down at the end of your renovation project and find your floors marked with paint and render, etc.

Sheeting is fleeting

Plastic sheeting is cheap and readily available from any hardware store – don’t get us wrong, it’s a great option if you have very lightly trafficked areas. This being said, anyone that’s taken the time to cut out, lay down, tape and position plastic sheeting only to have it tear or rip the first time you walk over it or scuff your boots on it knows the frustration of an exercise in futility.

Another thing to note is that some plastic films that adhere to your floors can leave residue and don’t allow floors to breathe (important for wooden floors, particularly in wet weather). Many are also quite slippery when they get wet with water, paint or mud.

Bored of boards?

Boards are tough and work well as a floor covering however you need to cut them to size, tape them together and cut them to a size again small enough to get through doors. This might be OK if you’re working on many houses and you can re-use your boards, but for most renovators, their home is their primary project and purchasing boards, cutting them to size and getting them into your home is a big hassle.

What’s the solution?

Well we’re glad you asked! Bluedog Protective Coatings for floors is a great option if you’re wanting to protect different floor types in your home during a renovation. We can cover sealed marble, ceramic, porcelain, flagstone, quarry, mexican/terracotta, agglomerate, terrazzo.

Bluedog Protective Coatings for floors is also great for timber floors taking care of polished durability class 1, 2 & 3. Durability class 4 may also be coated however the wood must be fully sealed, lacquered & cured prior to application.

And concrete is no problem. Cured, unpitted concrete eg, garage floors can all be covered and protected by Bluedog Protective Coatings for floors.

How do I get Bluedog Protective Coatings onto my floors?

Easy – Go to our online store and get Bluedog Protective Coatings on the floors of your next renovation project!

If you’re in the process of upgrading or renovating your kitchen there’s a good chance you’re going to be allocating a chunk of your budget to some nice new benchtops. This is great and everyone loves a new kitchen, but have you considered how you’re going to protect those nice new benchtops throughout the construction or renovation process?

Unfortunately during renovations, upgrades and new installs, tools get dropped by accident, render, grout and paint can be flicked or dropped onto surfaces and tiling can make a real mess of the area they’re going on to.

Accidents like these – whilst not done on purpose, can set back your project time and money while you figure out how to fix or replace the scratched, dented or broken elements of your new kitchen.

Tack mats are a pain

Sure they’re reusable (not great for one-off projects like a renovation) but they’re bulky and difficult to lay around corners, edges and strange shaped benchtops. Cutting them to size, tacking them down, re-tacking them down when you get a bubble or go off line can be frustrating and time consuming.

Protection films can be flimsy

Protective films are generally very thin and flimsy and it can take many rolls to cover large areas like benchtops and kitchen counters. This along with the fact you need to cut them to size and cut out any angular or rounded shapes makes this option clumsy and time consuming.

What’s the solution?

Bluedog Protective Coatings for benches is the perfect combination of easy-to-apply, protective and easy-to-peel-off. It rolls on like a paint then when it dries, turns into a protective film that you can easily peel off when your kitchen project is completed.

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Purchase Bluedog Protective Coatings for benches for your next renovation project!

Looking for a quick, easy and cost effective way to blackout windows for privacy, UV and light that’s a peelable film? Buy blockout protective coatings online. Bluedog Blockout Protective Coatings – a roll on peel off blackout film for windows and glass doors.

What are blackout films used for?

Blackout films can be used for a range of different applications. Often when a store is undergoing renovations windows or glass doors need to be blacked out so that customers can’t see what’s going on inside.

Privacy on job sites or in office buildings is another reason people may want to reduce the ability for people to see through doors and windows (if you have expensive equipment stored on site or in an office with public facing windows for example).

Reducing light in rooms (home theatres, darkrooms, nightclubs, etc) is another reason people look for a sun and light blocking window film. This helps to ensure that any light from outside sources does not enter rooms or buildings.

How is Bluedog Blockout Protective Coating different to an opaque film or a frosted film?

Opaque window films are typically somewhat see-through and will allow you to see vaguely what’s going on in the room. This is also the case with frosted films in glass and doors. These types of window films are sometimes used for privacy but won’t block out a room, office or building completely.

Can Bluedog Blockout Protective Coatings be used as a privacy glass film?

Certainly! Our Bluedog Blockout Protective Coating is the perfect privacy film for glass. It’s easily rolled on and when you don’t need it anymore you simply peel it off like a plastic. It’s the perfect temporary privacy film that blocks out lights, prying eyes and UV.

Does Bluedog Blockout Protective Coating keep out harmful UV rays?

Yes it does. Bluedog Blockout Protective Coating has been specifically designed to block out harmful UV rays. This means that Bluedog Blockout Protective Coatings won’t fade or crack in the sun and any items in a room or office that has Bluedog Blockout Protective Coatings on the windows won’t fade or be damaged by the sun.

How is Bluedog Blockout Protective Coating different to a plastic adhesive film?

Bluedog Blockout Protective Coating is different to a privacy film for glass windows in that you roll it on like a paint and when it dries and you want to remove it you peel it off like a plastic.

This means it’s much easier to apply to windows and glass (if you’ve ever tried to put contact on a book or apply window tinting you will know what we’re talking about!) and will easily fit on glass that is an irregular shape.

Cleaning and maintaining your spray booth can be very time-consuming and costly.

Bluedog Protective Coatings can dramatically reduce the time and money spent on booth cleaning and maintenance. This water-based coating rolls on in minutes and dries to protects your booth for up to 6 months then the robust film simply peels off in seconds, leaving your spray booth walls clean and free of all that messy paint overspray & residue. The Australian-made coating are formulated to provide up to 6 months of protection from excess paint sprays for commercial spray paint booths.

By choosing Bluedog’s coatings, you can focus on your core business while ensuring that your spray booth is clean, safe, and efficient.
Our products have been tried and tested for decades. feedback from the industry resulted in the development of two options to provide you with the best.

1. CLEAR option – rolls on white and dries to be a transparent texture booth coating.
Our clear option is a transparent texture booth coating that is perfect for glass booth lightboxes and glass windows on spray booth doors. This option provides excellent protection to your glass booth surfaces and can also be used on booth walls.

2. WHITE option – rolls on white and stays white textured booth coating.

This option remains a white-coloured textured booth coating suitable for all non-porous booth wall, floor, and ceiling surfaces. This is the most popular option among our customers as it enhances the lighting inside the booth, creating a brighter working environment.

Bluedog Protective Coatings understand the importance of booth protection, and take great pride in having the highest quality protective coatings which is specifically developed to prolong the lifespan of your spray booth surfaces while making you save time and money.

Our water-based coatings have been officially certified “non-hazardous” which makes them “environmentally friendly” which ensures the safety of your employees and our planet.

If you are looking to reduce the time and money spent on cleaning and maintaining your spray booth, you just need to choose (1) CLEAR or (2) WHITE.

Either way you’ll be protected by a high-quality, environmentally friendly and Aussie Made coatings.

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