The facelift, another facet of Sto's skills

This pledge of confidence shown for the ITE, paradoxically, sometimes tends to overshadow the expertise of Sto in another area: the restoration. However, he has always been at the heart of his profession, and historically, he is the very source of his success.

Sto's legitimacy as a restoration specialist is twofold. On the one hand, it has been more than 150 years that the parent company in Germany has been developing solutions designed to preserve and beautify façades in the long term. On the other hand, it is the SICOF company, bought by Sto in 2003, that deserves the credit for having literally invented façade waterproofing systems. Sto continues to design and produce products on the Vendée site that are among the best on the market.

Among the reasons for renovating a facade, the most frequent are the aesthetic or technical deterioration of the existing support or coating. The causes are multiple and often complex: wear, pollution, micro-organisms, physico-chemical reactions of materials. Their effects are no less so: detachment, crazing, cracking, bursting, not to mention the very negative visual impact of fungi, mosses or fouling of vegetable origin, streaks of dirt, algae, etc. In any case, no step should be neglected, from the diagnosis to the implementation of the finish, the right choices will determine the success of the achievement.

As a facade specialist, Sto offers a wide and coherent range to ensure a complete and lasting restoration:

• intervention products (cleaning, pickling, filling, cracks, primers etc.),
• wide choice of finishes, whether for decoration solutions (classified from D1 to D3) or waterproofing solutions (classified from I1 to I4),
• modenatures,
• lacquers and stains,
• technical treatment of concrete,
• liquid waterproofing solutions for floors, balconies and terraces
• tools.

To this body of know-how is added a constant at the heart of the corporate culture, the desire to support professionals and put all their expertise through a unique range of services:

• direct sales to professionals via a network of 16 commercial agencies,
• availability of most of the products with quick tinting (Sto'n'Go *), *
• StoDesign service,
• technical assistance,
• recommendation,
• site support,
• sample service,
• quality department,
• training center.

“We are particularly known as a pioneer and technological leader in Exterior Thermal Insulation, but we also offer very effective solutions in the field of coatings and paints thanks to our historic skills in cleaning. We must not forget that the ITE comes from the facelift! Over the years, we have focused our efforts on developing a broad and complete offer, with the ambition of offering our customers innovative and differentiating products ”, comments Florence Guyoton, product manager for facelift at Sto.