Rhino Shield of Missouri-Kansas Blog

I wanted to let you know that I am an extremely happy (repeat) customer!

First of all, let me thank you for taking the time to help me on the color selection. This time, I wasn't reserved on getting your professional opinion. The "Sandy Beaches" was such a great fit for the existing Deep Marine trim. This time, I got it right!  Now, I am proud of this house instead of embarrassed by the "Smurfberry Blue."

Kudos to each and every one of your team members:

Hanson is so easy to work with and really listens to the customer, especially on the details that matter.  When I get ready to replace my roof, perhaps next year, I will contact him.

Jerry was great from start to finish.  He was so very patient to make sure we had gone over every part of the house.  

Austris is what I would call a "Jack-of-all trades."  The custom-made column posts bases were a huge plus to the front entry way looking sharp.

I did type up a review on your web page testimonials, but made a couple of mistakes:  I left out the word "work" and then spelled my name wrong (duh).

The subdivision reaction has been fun to observe.  Yesterday, one of my neighbors came over to let me know that she loved the final outcome.  In fact, she said it looked very "Eddie Bauer."  Also when I was mowing the yard, a van slowed down and a man (and his wife) stuck his arm out of the window and gave me a huge smile and a thumbs-up signal.

You are great at your job and I wanted to let you know that it did not go without notice.

Summer is here, and it's the season for outdoor grilling, gatherings and paint jobs.  And you might be very well in season for giving your home a facelift with the customizable exterior painting of Rhino Shield.  Aside from providing your home with an exceptional exterior appeal, Rhino Shield is in touch with your health and needs through all of your outdoor activities in Ballwin and in  St. Louis this summer.

Rhino Shield's ceramic coating system, in opposition to marketed lead paints, is designed to be safe for your family, friends and pets. The three step process is Class A Fire and Smoke Rated, windproof and salt tolerant. The ceramic coating is constructed in such a way that it is safe enough for skin contact, and is highly durable, with a system that bonds to surfaces such as wood and steel like an adhesive. Rhino Shield is additional non-toxic, and is an ideal in outside home repair for hosting gatherings outside the home while avoiding the overbearing paint smell.

We encourage you to thrive this summer with a paint system that bonds that reliably bonds to your house and is in sync with your health.  Call Rhino Shield today!

Father's Day is coming up, and as the day for Dad recognition nears you might find yourself pondering the perfect gift.  We suggest that you give Dad the Rhino Shield treatment this year.  What is the Rhino Shield treatment, it's the gift of a no-maintenance house exterior!  With over 25 years of experience, Rhino Shield comes highly recommended for quality satisfaction and a finish that is superior to that of regular paint.  We believe that men everywhere would appreciate the long lasting Rhino Shield system, which removes the burden of exterior house painting.

Rhino Shield is an investment that essentially pays for itself. Rhino Shield has a 25 year transferability warranty that is ideal for maintaining or selling your home.  Other advantages include a brilliant exterior finish and a vibrance in color and tone of the ceramic coating.

For a limited time, take advantage of our Spring Special, which provides 15 percent off overall services.  Request a free estimate today.  What better gift could you give him - the gift of more time with your family!

While we get all kinds of questions at Rhino Shield Missouri about things like pricing, financing, durability issues, and more, there's still a few questions that come up much more often than others. We never get tired of answering all our customers' queries about Rhino Shield ceramic coating and all the great benefits it offers homeowners, but nonetheless we thought it'd be helpful to highlight some of the most common questions that we face:

• Can Rhino Shield be applied to wood, brick, and vinyl? The fact that Rhino Shield can be applied to virtually any surface is one of the reasons the product is so competitive in the exterior building coatings market. Rhino Shield can be applied to stucco, wood, brick, block, vinyl and metal.

• Why should I choose Rhino Shield over traditional paint? Conventional painted exterior surfaces have to be recoated every 3-5 years, whereas Rhino Shield comes with a 25 year warranty. Additionally, traditional paint applications every 5 years use much more energy than the application of the Rhino Shield Ceramic Coating every 25 years.

• What does Rhino Shield look like after the final application, and it dries? Once dry, Rhino Shield has a smooth latex paint-like finish, but is much thicker than latex paint.

So there you have it, our three most common questions. If you've been wondering about any of these issues before, now you've got an answer! If you need more clarification, though, don't hesitate at all to call our Rhino Shield Missouri offices today at 877.257.4466.

When you’re a business owner—whether one of a small family owned type or a corporate office—there are many hats that you have to wear. The last thing you should have to worry about is the exterior maintenance of your building.  Let Rhino Shield of Missouri help take care of that for you. Although our revolutionary exterior coating product is typically known for residential use, we’re now becoming synonymous with commercial use as well.  The reason for this is that business owners realize the money and time that they could be saving over time.  Some of the past commercial jobs we’ve provided a fresh and lasting exterior for include banks, hotels and resorts, universities and churches, just to name a few.

Contact Rhino Shield today to learn more about our commercial work by visiting our website or calling 877-257-4466. We’d love to hear from you!

We've told you all about how we apply Rhino Shield to your home or business in previous blogs, as well as discussing the benefits of Rhino Shield Ceramic Coating, but you know what they say- a picture's worth a thousand words! Take a look at this great video explaining the benefits and process of applying Rhino Shield to your home.

As this video shows, Rhino Shield is a good choice for all kinds of homes, even in vastly different climates. That's why there are Rhino Shield offices from Alaska to Florida! The protective properties of Rhino Shield can handle hurricane force rain and wind, resist corrosion and mildew, and even qualify for a Class A fire rating. And of course, in addition to all of the practical aspects of our product, it will make your home look fabulous.

To find out more about our highly specialized, chemically formulated exterior coating system that totally eliminates the need for frequent painting, contact us today at Rhino Shield Missouri

When shopping for a product to protect your home, it's easy to see that Rhino Shield is the obvious choice! Our ceramic coating has so many benefits that traditional paint just can't match. One of the best features of Rhino Shield is that it is windproof and waterproof.

Rhino Shield ceramic coating passes the Miami-Dade wind driven rain standard, an important test for a product that is used in varied climates all over the country, including many coastal towns. Our product is rated to withstand 98 mile per hour wind and driven rain.

Here's an example of just how strong our ceramic coating is:

The surviving water-front homes that had been treated with Rhino Shield prior to Hurricane Ivan in 2004 in Okaloosa County, Florida were subjected to field tests after withstanding 126 mile per hour rains. Even after enduring this extreme test of durability, the homes were tested with a moisture meter, and no moisture penetration was found!

Fortunately, here in Missouri we're not likely to get a hurricane any time soon, but the threat of extreme weather, like hard rain storms, wind and floods, is always a possibility.  Do all you can to protect your home by choosing Rhino Shield Exterior Ceramic Paint Coating.

Rhino Shield has many benefits over traditional exterior home paint including longevity, durability an green features like non-toxicity and low-VOC content.  One aspect homeowners appreciate the most is Rhino Shield's low-maintenance requirements!

Normal exterior paints need to be pressure washed every year in order to maintain a fresh look, but Rhino Shield Ceramic Paint only needs to be washed every three to four years!  That adds up not only to a huge financial savings over the life of your home, but also to an enormous amount of time savings.

Whether your home is wood, brick, aluminum, vinyl, stucco, block or steel, Rhino Shield can bond with the surface and protect it for years to come.  Our product is BASF tested and proven to last, and we even back it up with a 25 year transferable warranty.

Call us today for more information!

Rhino Shield Ceramic Coating can be mixed to virtually any color you could want, but what color scheme should you choose for your home?  You want to stand out- in a good way- yet also ensure that your home will look like a harmonious part of the environment. If you are having a hard time choosing a color scheme, it can be helpful to think thematically. Do you want your house to be bold and modern, earthy and natural, or perhaps classically elegant?

Historic homes have much to offer when it comes to exterior paint inspiration, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation has a fabulous page devoted to the colors used on and in these historical treasures. Read on for some of the color pairings inspired by American landmarks, below.

• Woodrow Wilson House- Blush, Linen, Putty, Presidential White

• Mark Twain House- Gray Brick, Olive, Gold

• Hotel Del Coronado- Amber, Peach, Dusty Rose

To see dozens more of these color schemes, visit the National Trust site, linked above. If you are ready to give your Missouri home a beautiful new look, call Rhino Shield today, and never paint again!

Image via Mark Twain House in Missouri

If your home or business is in need of yet another exterior paint job, don't worry- there is a solution!  Rhino Shield Ceramic Coating is the Ultimate Paint Job, guaranteed to look great and protect your home for years to come. In fact, we are so confident in the quality of our product that we offer a 25 year transferable warranty! Read on to learn more about the benefits of Rhino Shield.

• Secure waterproofing- Rhino Shield passes the Miami Dade Wind Driven Rain Standard.

• Soundproofing qualities

• Impeccable detail and a rich, thick appearance

• High specification insulation- The ceramic microspheres in our exterior coating help keep heat from transferring into the building in hot weather, and prevent heat from escaping the building in cold weather.

• We're green! Our low-VOC, non-toxic ceramic coating is an environmentally-friendly choice for your home or business.

Give us a call today to learn more about Rhino Shield!

When you choose Rhino Shield to protect your home, we don't just show up and slap on a coat of house paint. Before applying our ultra-durable Rhino Shield Ceramic Coating, we do the preparation and repairs necessary to ensure that your "Ultimate Paint Job" will last for years to come.

One very important part of the Rhino Shield process is priming. We apply a solid coat of Rhino Shield Adhesive Primer Sealer, which acts as a bonding agent, so the finish coat will stay on your home without cracking or peeling.

Up until the late 1970's, paints routinely contained lead-based chemicals, which acted as an adhesive, holding paint onto a surface. Fortunately, those dangerous, old paints are off the market now, but without the lead-based bonding agents, today's paints absolutely require the use of specialized primers in order to allow the paint to bond to the substrate.

If you look at a can of conventional paint these days, one of the first things you will see is a warning that the product is not guaranteed to work without two coats of primer underneath. Unfortunately, many painters will merely apply one thick coat of primer, resulting in a short-lived, low-quality paint job.

At Rhino Shield, we fulfill our promise of a high-quality, long-lasting product by applying a special waterproofing primer to all surfaces of your home or business, protecting against bleed-through and creating a sticky, adhesive surface that acts as a bonding agent for the topcoat.

See more photos of Rhino Shield in action on our Process page.

Did you know that Rhino Shield is the most salt-tolerant coating available on the market today?  This benefit is especially vital for folks living in coastal areas but is just as handy for individuals who live in particularly cold climates as the material's ceramic consistency is particularly resistant to all the elements.  Standard house paint has a tendency to erode over time from salt's abrasive properties and can swell and bloat when exposed to pounding rains for extended periods of time.  But Rhino Shield's durable composition can resist all these conditions and more!

Visit Rhino Shield today to learn more about how you can benefit from this remarkable ceramic coating and never have to paint again!

Photo Credit: Flickr

Some people love the task of picking out an exterior color for their home while others find it to be a chore--one of the most overwhelming decisions to make when it comes to home design, to be exact.  While the goal is always to choose a color that retains character and uniqueness, you want to ensure that that color is still going to blend in well with the neighborhood.  Hot pink maybe your favorite color, the whole block doesn’t need to know!

Take a look at Freshome’s list of 5 things to consider when choosing an exterior house paint color. Then contact Rhino Shield to learn more about our expansive selection of exterior ceramic-based paints.

1) Let your geography be your guide:  Where is your home located?  Before you get your heart set on an exterior color, observe the color palette of the geographic area for which you live.  Straying too far away will make your house stand out, and not for the better.

2) Adhere to the architectural time period of your area:  In historic neighborhoods the colors have been predetermined and should be adhered to as close as possible.  Similarly, for newer modern homes and older Victorian homes, the architectural style and time period will also help you define exterior colors to choose from. 

3) Walk through your neighborhood:  Get a feel for what the homes in your neighborhood are like.  Depending on your rural or urban setting, your neighborhood has a big affect on your home’s exterior.  Take a look at others’ colors palettes, trim colors and accent features.

4) Don’t forget your roof:  Your roof color and material needs to be considered with the exterior color.  Choose your overall field color of your home and then choose a roof color that compliments it.  Darker house colors may choose a contrasting lighter roof and vice versa.

5) Get inspiration:  By perusing magazine pages, websites and other homes in the neighborhood, you’ll find a good bit of inspiration.  Once you’ve decided on a color palette ask the paint store for smaller samples to bring home and try out on a small section of your exterior.  Let dry 24 hours and see if you like it!

Over the past year, we’ve discussed our signature ceramic coating in depth and the fact that it can be applied easily to a number of home surfaces.  But one of the most popular of those surfaces that we haven’t explored yet is stucco.  Because of our thorough application process and the superior primer that we use, Rhino Shield bonds to the substrate of stucco remarkably well.  This is largely in part due to the adhesive primer sealer and the fact that it can penetrate up to six layers of paint.  In fact, Rhino Shield also thwarts the development of mold, fungus and mildew on your stucco.

Rhino Shield’s ceramic coating is also ideal for stucco because it securely bridges small superficial cracks on exterior surfaces. For more information on how Rhino Shield can help give your stucco home the ultimate paint job, give us a call today at 877-257-4466.

Photo Credit: Rhino Shield

While home maintenance is a necessary evil when it comes to homeownership, there are a few ways to mitigate the need for it as often. One way is by completing home improvement projects the right way the first time around. Another way is to complete the project thoroughly and with high-quality products so as to reduce the need to maintain the same area of the home year after year after year. That’s where Rhino Shield comes in as a magnificent option!

One of the reasons that homeowners love Rhino Shield so much is because of the fact that this durable ceramic coating is long-lasting and protects your home exterior for at least 25 years! That’s over two decades that Rhino Shield helps homeowners remain worry-free about maintaining the exterior paint of their prized home. Traditional latex paint, on the other hand, needs to be reapplied ever 3-5 years and can be quite costly. In addition to this time-saving benefit, Rhino Shield is also a low-VOC coating and resists rain and water damage as well as chipping and peeling! Kind of a no-brainer, huh?!

So don’t waste another minute and give Rhino Shield Missouri a call today at 877-257-4466 and request a free estimate. Don’t spend another minute maintaining your home’s exterior—let us do that for you!

Jason Murer, a journalists specializing in the investigation of various cutting edge "green" products recently wrote an article called, "A Cheaper Way to Conserve energy: Ceramic Additives for Paint." Below are some highlights that touch on just a handful of the benefits he explored. Looks like folks are beginning to catch on to a concept Rhino Shield has been incorporating into their services for quite some time now!

Energy saving is not only great for the environment but also for the pocket book. We're all familiar with the typical insulation you put in your attic or walls or investing in costly energy saving systems like radiant heat systems or solar panels. I recently came across a new type of insulation that takes state-of-the-art energy savings to a new level but keeps the costs much lower than any other type of energy saving material. It's called insulating ceramic paint.

This kind of paint is a highly energy efficient for insulating interior or exterior surfaces. However unlike typical house paint coming in colors, this paint is meant to be added to traditional paint—giving people many color options.

Additional benefits to this kind of additive are:

* High Impact Resistance.
* Resistant to atmospheric pollution.
* Non-toxic & environmentally friendly.
* Highly scrubable on all surfaces.
* Resistant to UV degradation.
* Mildew resistant.
* Rapid drying for quick re-coating.
* Easy cleanup with soap and water.
* Dampens sound.
* Prevents condensation.
* Non-yellowing.
* Highly resistant to salt spray & air pollution.
* Contains safe yet effective Algaecides and mildewcides.
* Chemical and alkali resistant, chemical, high impact resistance to chipping.

Click here to read the entire article.  Give Rhino Shield a call today.

Much like the rest of the country, the city of St. Louis has gotten hit with some of the worst winter weather ever on record. The heavy amounts of snow and ice are truly devastating.

What many people don't necessarily think about is how damaging all of this winter weather can be to the exterior of your house. The amounts of snow that pile up against the side of your house as well as the icicles that may be hanging down from your gutters can actually be slowly deteriorating the ceramic coating or paint you have on outside of your home. Not only is the winter weather an issue, but the storms and possible hurricane-like weather some areas receive must have durable and long-lasting coating in order to withstand that type of weather.

Protect your house from all weather elements with Rhino Shield. It's waterproof!

That is why investing in a ceramic coating that is waterproof can be so important in many regions of the country, especially where our Rhino Shield product is available.

Rhino Shield passed the Miami-Dade wind driven rain standard, which means that our ceramic coating can withstand Hurricane force winds of up to 126 mph once the test was conducted on a number of houses in Okaloosa County in Florida that were hit by Hurricane Ivan.

So if protecting your home from water damage is something of importance to you depending on where you live in the country, applying a coat of Rhino Shield to the exterior of your home can be the difference-maker when bad weather hits your area, no matter what the season.

You can find out more information about the many benefits of Rhino Shield by contacting us at 877-257-4466.

There's an old cliché that says "a picture is worth a thousand words." Well, if that old saying is true we're going to give you two thousand words worth of pictures today, but despite that we're willing to bet you'll be left completely speechless.

Take a look at this home in an everyday neighborhood not unlike your own:



This home looks okay, but it could be a lot better, don't you think? Rhino Shield would be just the answer, and in fact that's precisely what this family chose for their home exterior coating. After the Rhino Shield process was completed and everything was taken care of, the final results were pretty compelling:



The house took on an entirely new look and character after getting a new coat of Rhino Shield ceramic coating. The difference is pretty astounding. Besides making the home look much sharper, this family will enjoy the benefit of a home better protected from weather and everyday damage as well as increased insulation and sound proofing.  How cool is that?

It's easy and simple to add the amazing Rhino Shield product to your home. Just call our Rhino Shield Missouri offices today at 877.257.4466.

Here on our you'll often stumble over a few terms that might not immediately be familiar to you.  We try to be as helpful and simple with our information as possible, however sometimes things might be a bit confusing if you're not familiar with the proper terminology. So, to help with that, we decided to pass along some easy definitions for some terms you'll find here regularly on our blog.

Call Rhino Shield today to learn more about how our ceramic paint coatings can help your home or office at 877.257.4466.

Happy Holidays from Rhino Shield Missouri!

2012 was another great year at Rhino Shield.  Homeowners and Business Owners alike are discovering all the advantages of going with Rhino Shield Ceramic Paint Coatings for their homes and offices.  As we enter 2013, consider Rhino Shield for your next exterior maintenance project and Never Paint Again!

Have a Safe and Happy Holiday Season and a Very Happy New Year!