Paints & Textures · Sri Lanka
Hospitals, clinics and food processing facilities have hygiene requirements ordinary interior paint simply isn't built for. Cerami Fresh IN is a stain-resistant water-based acrylic silicon emulsion with antibacterial and anti-viral resistance and less than 1% TVOC. C&S Projects supplies and applies it to healthcare and public facilities across Colombo and the Western Province, where surface hygiene is inspected and audited regularly.
The hygiene problem
Standard interior emulsions absorb stains, retain soiling on the surface film, and often require harsh cleaning chemicals that degrade the paint over time. Cerami Fresh IN is engineered to break that cycle. Its silicon emulsion forms a tough, dense film with excellent adhesion, giving high dirt and stain resistance while remaining easily washable under standard hospital-grade cleaning protocols.
Its low TVOC formulation, emitting less than 1%, also supports the indoor air quality requirements common in medical and food-handling environments. Because the coating resists bacteria, viruses and mould on the surface, it supports the wider controls that infection prevention and control teams already run — and it lowers how often a full repaint is needed to stay compliant.
To be clear about what a coating can and cannot do: paint is one layer in a hygiene strategy, not a substitute for cleaning protocols. However, wall and ceiling surfaces are among the largest continuous areas in any ward or kitchen, so their condition matters to the teams managing healthcare-associated infection risk.
Facilities regulated under Ministry of Health expectations are assessed on documented condition, not appearance alone. Therefore we supply the technical data sheets alongside the work, so a compliance file has the evidence it needs.
The failure pattern in Sri Lankan facilities is fairly predictable. A ward is painted with a general-purpose emulsion, cleaned daily with chlorine-based disinfectant, and within a year the film around door frames and trolley lines is dull, patchy and porous. Once porous, a surface holds soiling rather than releasing it.
Humidity compounds it. Colombo's year-round moisture supports mould growth on cool wall surfaces, particularly in sluice rooms, wash-up areas and any space with poor ventilation. As a result a coating with genuine fungal resistance is a practical requirement here, not a premium extra.
There is a cost argument too. Repainting a clinical area is disruptive in a way that repainting an office is not, because beds must move, schedules shift and areas close. However a film that survives three times as many cleaning cycles simply pushes that disruption further apart.
Formulated to resist bacteria, viruses and mould on the coated surface between cleaning cycles.
A dense silicon emulsion film withstands repeated hospital-grade disinfectant without breaking down.
Supports the indoor air quality requirements common in medical and food-handling environments.
Technical data sheets your compliance team can file for infection-control records.
Where it's specified
The specification comes up wherever surfaces are cleaned hard and often — clinical areas, commercial kitchens, packaging halls and care facilities. These are also the buildings where repainting is disruptive, so a longer-lasting film has value beyond hygiene alone.
Ceilings and high-level surfaces are included more often than people expect. In kitchens especially, grease and steam settle above head height, and those are the hardest areas to strip back later. Coating them at the same time avoids a second, more disruptive visit.
Where a facility needs broader-spectrum performance alongside crack-bridging flexibility, our low VOC interior paint page covers the wider hygiene-focused interior range.
Explore the range
Cerami Fresh IN sits within our wider paints & textures range — hygiene coatings, low-VOC interiors, exterior systems, enamels and decorative textures, supplied with application by our own teams.
How we work
C&S Projects works directly with facility managers, main contractors and hospital administration teams to specify Cerami Fresh IN correctly for the substrate involved. Concrete, masonry, brickwork, plasterboard, calcium silicate board and timber are all compatible surfaces, and each behaves differently at the primer stage.
We provide technical data sheets that compliance teams can reference for infection-control documentation, and we schedule application in phases to avoid disrupting active wards or production lines. Our painting service covers containment, sequencing and protection of equipment.
For food facilities, scheduling is usually built around production downtime rather than the working day. Therefore we plan around wash-down windows and shutdowns, because a coating needs a clean, dry substrate and uninterrupted cure time to perform as specified.
Substrate condition is assessed before anything is quoted. Plasterboard joints, previously distempered walls and areas with existing mould all need different preparation, and skipping that stage is the most common reason a hygienic coating underperforms. See our surface preparation range for the repair and priming products involved.
Colour choice is practical rather than decorative in these buildings. Light, even tones make soiling visible so it gets cleaned, which is exactly what an audited environment wants. Therefore we usually steer clinical areas toward pale neutrals and reserve stronger colours for waiting areas and circulation space.
How it compares
A standard washable emulsion may resist occasional wiping, however it carries no active antibacterial or anti-viral properties, and its film breaks down faster under frequent disinfectant use.
Cerami Fresh IN is formulated to withstand that cleaning frequency while maintaining its antibacterial performance. For clients audited on hygiene standards rather than appearance alone, that is usually the deciding factor. For exterior elevations on the same building, see our silicon exterior paint page.
Local coverage
We supply and apply hygiene coatings across Colombo and the surrounding suburbs — Rajagiriya, Nugegoda, Battaramulla, Nawala, Dehiwala and Kotte — as well as clinics and commercial kitchens in Colombo 05 and 07. Because our stores sit on Buthgamuwa Road in Rajagiriya, sites across Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte can be reached quickly when a ward window is short.
Facility type shapes the programme far more than area does. A private clinic in Nawala can often release whole rooms overnight, whereas a larger hospital corridor has to stay partly open for access at all times. For example, corridor work is usually split lengthwise so one side stays trafficable.
Having supplied and applied coatings across the Western Province since 2022, we plan these constraints into the quotation rather than discovering them on site. As a result facility managers get a schedule that survives contact with a working building, with agreed access points, dust containment and daily sign-off rather than open-ended possession of an area. See our completed projects for context.
Quick answers
No, and we would not present it that way. It is a durable, hygienic surface that withstands frequent disinfectant use and resists growth between cleans. Cleaning schedules and infection-control procedures remain the primary controls in any facility.
We supply the manufacturer's technical data sheets covering the antibacterial and anti-viral performance, TVOC content and substrate compatibility, so your compliance team can file them directly against infection-control records.
Yes. We phase application zone by zone around clinical schedules or production downtime, and agree containment and access arrangements before starting, so the facility keeps running throughout the works.
“They phased the corridors so we never closed a wing, and handed us the data sheets without being asked. That paperwork went straight into our infection-control file.”
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