Falu Rödfärg External Wood Paint
The history of Swedish red paint can be traced right back to the 16th century and today it is as natural a choice for architect-designed detached houses and public buildings as for summer cottages and boathouses.
Below you can read here about the properties that have made Falu Rödfärg Sweden’s most tried and tested – and most loved – house paint.
Falu Rödfärg – Swedish Red paint its use, is only limited by your imagination from barns, bird boxes and raised beds to interior feature walls, fences and external facades.
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Falu Rödfärg is not just a house paint, it is Swedish cultural history in a tin. The history of Swedish red paint can be traced right back to the 16th century and today it is as natural a choice for architect-designed detached houses and public buildings as for summer cottages and boathouses. You can read here about the properties that have made Falu Rödfärg Sweden’s most tried and tested – and most loved – house paint.
The pigment: Falu Rödfärg contains pigment from the mineralization of the Falun Mine. “Red mull” is created from ore with a low copper content that has decomposed over the centuries. In addition to copper, red mull contains a rare compound of iron ochre, silica and zinc.
This results in a paint with a beautiful, matt finish and a translucent surface with course silicon dioxide crystals that reflect rays of light. In warm evening light, the red colour becomes intense and almost glows. The pigment is also highly stable in terms of light, houses can be found that have not been painted for 100 years and yet the few remaining pigment granules are still nice and red.
Falu Rödfärg has a high pigment content: 18%
The coat of paint: Falu Rödfärg is a distemper, one of Sweden’s oldest and most used types of paint. The paint produces an open coat that allows the wood to breathe – it lets in moisture, but allows it to evaporate again equally quickly. This minimises the risk of rot.
The colour:Falu Rödfärg’s classic colour is not available as an exact paint number that can be mixed in a machine. The colour is as alive as the experts who burn the pigment. It is a craft that has been handed down in our production process since we started serious pigment manufacture in the mine area in 1764. An experienced Swedish user of red paint knows that it is a natural product and that it is therefore best to change batch at the corner of the house just to be sure.
Available in Red or Black
- Treat with fungicide beforehand.
- Stir the paint well; use clean tools.
- Paint using a Falu Rödfärg facade brush.
- New or untreated timber must be primed with one coat of Falu Rödfärg diluted with 10-20 per cent water.
- Wait at least 24 hours before finishing with an undiluted top coat.
- Bear in mind the paint must be worked into the timber thinly; do not apply paint too thickly.
- When painting over a previously distempered surface, brush away any dirt and loose paint.
- Ideally, begin with a steel brush and then brush off the entire surface with a broom.
- Once the surface is free of dirt and dust, paint one coat of undiluted Falu Rödfärg.
- Falu Rödfärg is a living product and the colour may vary a little due to different pigment firings.
Suitable For
- Falu Rödfärg is an outdoor paint for untreated, unplaned spruce and for repainting surfaces previously treated with Falu Rödfärg. New, prefabricated buildings may be painted using Falu Rödfärg Original given that the walls are supplied without primer or have been primed with distemper.
Coverage Rate
- 3m² per litre
- 100ml
- 5l
- 10l
