Protect your building with Modac.

Protecting buildings and exterior surfaces from the harsh effects of the weather is something that we are always happy to help with, and using Modac to do this for one of our clients was the obvious solution. We were approached to landscape a front garden in Edinburgh, and we worked with the client to come up with some ways of making sure that we kept the damp out of the beautiful paving that we were laying at the front of the house.

We love designing and creating driveways and paving solutions for our clients, and of course we like the challenge of living up to our "best driveway" award from Marshalls, one of the leading UK suppliers of stone for driveways. We got to work on the project as soon as we’d talked the plans over with the client, and decided to use natural paving at the front of the house and then add Modac colour to highlight the natural colours in the paving stones, which would help to protect the garden and keep it looking good long term. To add interest we designed bespoke planters which we filled with screened topsoil.

We like to use Modac in some of our gardening projects because it’s really proved its worth over the years, and it’s a good, reliable product. The coating is alkaline resistant and made from 100% acrylic latex which works to seal, decorate and protect new and existing concrete, so it can be used on floors, walkways and driveways as well as the exterior of buildings.

Modac isn’t a new thing; Modac coatings have been used in one form or another for over 50 years. It was originally used to create new concrete skyscrapers in America in the early and it’s still as popular as ever because it tends to last that much longer than a lot of standard coatings, something that’s really important when you’re building a driveway that’s going to get a lot of use. If it can keep a concrete skyscraper from the ravages of the American winter, it can keep paving looking smart in Scotland!

As you can see, the combination of the garden design, including the attractive planters and the colourful, sophisticated-looking paving, looks fantastic at the front of this house, and with the addition of the Modac, it should stay looking this good for many years to come.