The observant Owatrol customer may have noticed that you can now purchase a handy 100ml sample pot of many of our bestselling products. This is a great way to test things out if you’re not sure which shade of Solid Colour Stain you’d like, or you’re not sure what Textrol will look like on your […]

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Lots of people find themselves asking this question as summer draws to an end. You’ve spent the summer in your garden and you’ve splashed out on some new fence panels, treated yourself to a new deck or even delighted the children with a new playhouse and they’re all looking great! However, you know that winter’s […]
We get a lot of customers asking questions about why they need to treat their decking and if they need to treat it at all so I thought I’d try to answer some of the more common questions for you here. I’ve also tried to give solutions to some of the common problems caused by […]
We were recently signposted to this case study by Promain, a long time partner of ours and seller of Owatrol products. The customer was exasperated after using a well-known high street product on their decking every year only to find it always cracking and peeling after the winter. It clearly wasn’t doing what it said […]
The Owatrol UK Team will be exhibiting at The National Painting and Decorating Show this year on 19th and 20th November at the Ricoh Arena near Coventry. This is the biggest annual painting and decorating trade show and is a must for all professional painters and decorators. You can pre-register for your free tickets and […]
We know that metal protection, in particular, is a minefield of different but similar products and it can be a challenge to work out which is best for your project. Hopefully, this guide will give you a better understanding of the Owatrol metal range and how to use our various solutions. This is, however, meant […]
An Owatrol Pro customer B Richardson Decorating recently completed a renovation of the exterior of a bungalow. The project included windows, doors, a garage door and upstands for a car port which included lots of rusted metal surfaces. He used Owatrol Deco to protect, prime and finish the surfaces in white and was very impressed […]
Since launching the new Owatrol Direct website we have been able to extensively expand the product range available online. Although these products are not all new to Owatrol Direct, they have not previously been available online! So what’s new? Owatrol Deco Owatrol Deco, previously called Rustol Deco for long-standing customers who may be a little […]
Over at Detailing World we stumbled across another happy Owatrol customer using Polytrol to restore a faded car bumper. They posted this picture to show Polytrol at work: Polytrol is a colour restorer for plastics, GRPs, gelcoats, metals and other surfaces. It restores the original look and feel to the surface and dries to a […]
Polytrol saves a garage door after 15 years of neglect
Posted on in Before & After, Case Studies, Decorating, Metal Protection, Product SpotlightWe were contacted recently by Phil, who needed some help restoring his GRP garage door. He wasn’t sure which product to use so he got in touch and asked! We recommended Polytrol as it revives and restores the colour of faded surfaces – it’s perfect for use on fibreglass as well as many other surfaces […]