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Exterior coating written beside the curtain wall

Changshu Yincheng Mall is titled curtain wall and exterior insulation coating. The coating is not implied by the word wall.

Curtain walls

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Curtain walls

Curtain wall installation under a Class 2 professional contracting qualification, including mixed facade packages.

Insulation and paint are a build-up

Name the insulation thickness, the base coat, and the finish coat if the specification exists. If it does not, send the wall type: concrete, block, or a substrate already on the drawing. The decoration page carries the same draft note.

Where the coating stops

Coating usually stops at the curtain-wall perimeter, at a stone pier, or at a movement joint. Mark that line on the elevation. An unlabelled facade area will be priced twice or missed.

Colour batch and repair

Coatings from different batches do not match on a long facade. Ask for the batch size and for how a scaffold-tie hole is repaired. A colour name without a sample on the same substrate is not a match standard.