Should you recommend foil or spray coloured to customers?

The quality of PVCu windows and doors has come a long way since the early days of limited colours, styles, and sizes. Allowing your customers to create the timeless look of timber for much less, uPVC improvement products can be customised in several ways including foiled and spray colour finishes.

With this in mind, carry on reading to discover the main differences between these two fashionable surface finishes whilst simultaneously being able to recommend foil finishes or spray colour options with confidence.

What is foiled uPVC?

Foils are a type of laminate finish for high-performance uPVC windows and doors. Foils are applied to replicate the exquisite texture of wooden frames, with a number of wood grain patterns to choose from, e.g. uneven Golden Oak, rippled Irish Oak, or streaked Rosewood grain patterns. Permanently bonded to the uPVC profiles using an innovative twin-layer method, these specially made lengths of film are protected against fading, peeling, flaking, and scratching too.

With the array of uPVC colour foils available today, it’s hard to believe uPVC windows and doors were once limited to just White, Rosewood and Golden Oak! The general rule of thumb with uPVC window and door colours is the more popular the colour, the less it costs. So, if your customers have more eclectic colour tastes they can expect to pay a bit more for the privilege.

What is spray coloured uPVC?

Spray colouring does exactly what it says on the tin! Applied with an air-assisted spray gun, spray-coloured windows and doors are often chosen due to the extensive range of bespoke RAL colours on offer. That said, all our windows and door products can be specified in over 200 RAL colours, as well as highly durable stock colour foil finishes.

Which is better, foil or spray paint?

Overall, foiled windows and doors come out on top – especially if you or your customers want authentic, enduring wood-grained windows with the least maintenance involved.

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