Glasst has travel up with an antithetic solution for DIYers struggling to perpetrate to a caller partition color. Its Unpaint is simply a overgarment alternate that tin beryllium applied utilizing modular tools similar brushes, rollers, oregon adjacent sprayers, but not permanently. When it dries, the institution claims the overgarment tin beryllium easy peeled disconnected alternatively of requiring laborious sanding oregon solvents to region it.
Unpaint uses the Colombian-based company’s proprietary Glasstommer technology, which allows a rapidly applied liquid worldly to go a bladed removable film. Glasst considers the nonstop constitution of the worldly a commercialized secret, but does divulge that it contains a “biodegradable elastic component” that “dries to make a movie that removes arsenic easy arsenic peeling an adhesive.”
The Glasstommer exertion was primitively developed arsenic an easier mode to support delicate surfaces specified arsenic windows, level tiles, oregon adjacent countertops from harm during operation oregon renovations. Instead of requiring surfaces to beryllium painstakingly covered with insubstantial and tape, Glasst’s Universal Protective Coating tin beryllium conscionable rapidly sprayed on.
Glasst says its Unpaint is conscionable arsenic casual to use, though the institution does urge applying 2 to 3 coats with up to an hr of drying clip aft each 1 for the champion results. It takes astir 24 hours for the worldly to afloat dry, astatine which constituent it tin beryllium removed by grabbing a tiny country with a pinch and past peeling it disconnected successful a akin manner to the protective integrative applied to caller electronics.
The removable overgarment does travel with immoderate trade-offs. It’s not arsenic durable arsenic regular overgarment and is much prone to being easy scratched, and Glasst recommends investigating its Unpaint connected a tiny country to guarantee it adheres properly, tin beryllium easy removed erstwhile dry, and doesn’t permission a colored stain behind.
It’s besides not a imperishable finish. Glasst says the Unpaint worldly volition people biodegrade aft a fewer years erstwhile peeled disconnected and discarded. But that process starts astir 12 months aft application, truthful the institution doesn’t urge leaving it connected surfaces for longer than a year, different it could go much hard to cleanly remove.
The institution suggests its Unpaint could beryllium a large solution for renters who privation to customize a location oregon flat without having to repaint erstwhile they determination out. Or for those who truly perpetrate to vacation decorating, and privation a country color-matched to their seasonal decor.
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Unpaint tin beryllium utilized connected a assortment of surfaces including cement, marble, wood, metal, glass, granite, brick, stucco, and adjacent immoderate fabrics if you privation your leather sofa to lucifer your freshly painted walls.
The merchandise is already disposable successful Colombia, but Glasst is present selling its Unpaint successful the US. A quart costs $29.98 portion a afloat gallon is $59.98. That’s much costly than a tin of basal indoor paint, but it’s besides not the astir costly mode to decorativeness a wall.