This is the main section of the book where every type of coating and application defect has been reviewed and the book details the defect, a description, probable causes and suggestions for repair. All coating and application defects have high quality photographic examples allowing the reader to assess the probable type of defect. The section contains 237 photographs in 93 categories as shown in the table.

  • Abrasion
  • Adhesion Failure
  • Alligatoring
  • Aluminium Corrosion
  • Application Defects
  • Bittiness
  • Bleaching
  • Bleeding
  • Blistering General
  • Blistering Intercoat
  • Blistering Non-Osmotic
  • Blistering Osmotic
  • Bloom
  • Bodying
  • Bridging
  • Brush Marks
  • Bubbles or Bubbling
  • Cargo Damage
  • Cathodic Disbonding
  • Chalking
  • Checking
  • Cheesiness
  • Chemical Exposure
  • Cissing
  • Cobwebbing
  • Cracking
  • Cracking at Welds
  • Cratering
  • Crazing
  • Crowsfooting
  • Degradation
  • Delamination
  • Dryspray
  • Edge Corrosion
  • Efflorescence
  • Erosion
  • Exudation
  • Fading
  • Fat Edge
  • Feather Edging
  • Filiform (Corrosion)
  • Fish Eyes
  • Flaking
  • Flocculation
  • Flooding
  • Flotation
  • Galvanising
  • Grinning
  • Grit Inclusions
  • Growth
  • Heat Damage
  • Impact Damage
  • Incorrect Coating System
  • Incorrect Coating Thickness
  • Intercoat Contamination
  • Laminations or Shelling
  • Knotting
  • Mechanical Damage
  • Milkiness
  • Millscale
  • Misses/Skips/Holidays
  • Missing Topcoat
  • Mud Cracking
  • Orange Peel
  • Overspray
  • Peeling
  • Pinholes
  • Pimer Degradation
  • Rain Damage
  • Rippled Coating
  • Rot (Wood)
  • Runs
  • Rust Jacking
  • Rust Rashing
  • Rust Rashing (Thermal Spray)
  • Rust Spotting
  • Rust Staining
  • Sags
  • Salts
  • Saponification
  • Settlement
  • Skinning
  • Solvent Lifting
  • Solvent Popping
  • Staining
  • Stress Cracking
  • Stripe Coats
  • Tackiness
  • Under Cured Coating
  • Undercutting
  • Water Spotting
  • Wrinking
  • Zinc Salts

Osmotic Blistering

Osmotic Blistering

Delamination

Delamination