Description

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee CH-003, Paints and Related Materials, to supersede AS/NZS 2311:2009, Guide to the painting of buildings.

This Standard incorporates Amendment No. 1 (September 2019). The changes required by the Amendment are indicated in the text by a marginal bar and amendment number against the clause, note, table, figure or part thereof affected.

The objective of this Standard is to provide guidance and recommended good practice for the design, application and maintenance of decorative paint systems for use by the paint industry in the development of painting specifications.

This Standard cannot be nominated as a painting specification, but it can be used as a basis for the preparation of appropriate paint specifications to suit individual contracts. Guidance on the preparation of painting specifications is given in Section 9.

This Standard was revised to introduce the following changes:

(a) Update referenced documents.
(b) Include paint type B16A water-borne sealer binder in Table 4.2, Paint types.

The term ‘informative’ has been used in this Standard to define the application of the appendix to which they apply. An ‘informative’ appendix is only for information and guidance.

Provides guidance and recommended good practice for the design, application and maintenance of decorative paint systems for use by the paint industry in the development of painting specifications. Originated in Australia as AS 2311-1979. Originated in New Zealand as NZS 7703:1985. Previous edition AS/NZS 2311:2009. Sixth edition 2017. Reissued incorporating Amendment No. 1 (September 2019).