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Pal Tiya Premium for Large Outdoor Art
Pal Tiya Premium has become the sculpting material of choice for many professional artists, movie prop shops, hobby
crafters and students all over the world. It was developed in New Zealand by Pal Tiya International specifically for the
creation of large permanent outdoor sculptures. Artists of all levels of expertise use Pal Tiya Premium in the USA,
Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It is a tested, safe and dependable material for
creating art, especially those works intended for the outdoors and demanding weather.
Pal Tiya Premium is an excellent outdoor sculpting
material, tested to the standards of the building
industry.
Pal Tiya Premium successfully passed the ASTM
C666/666M – 03 Standard Test Method for Resistance
of Concrete to Rapid Freezing and Thawing.
This test is used universally by the building industry to
determine viability as an outdoor material.
Our particular test was performed by the labs
at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation), the Australian Registered
Testing Authority.
How the ASTM C666/666M test is carried out.
A correctly mixed and cured sample of Pal Tiya
Premium is placed in a specialist machine, wetted
Sculptural Element Tested
down and rapidly frozen to -18 C (-0.4 F) to form hard
ice, it is then thawed again to +16 C (+60.8 F). This
aggressive hot-cold thermal "shocking" is
repeated 24/7, 300 times over several months. It is
designed to quickly discover any flaws inherent in a
material destined for outdoor use.
We made the tests deliberately harder because we
wanted the best sculpting material possible.
The samples we froze also contained specific
sculptural elements, to accurately measure the
performance of PTP with real world conditions a
sculptor would encounter.
Below is a summary table of the things we did
to additionally stress the samples during the tests.
ASTM C666/666M Result
We deliberately left gaps and exposed spaces between
laminated layers of Pal Tiya Premium to allow water to
penetrate far more than normal.
There was no water migration along or into the
exposed layers. No delamination between layers
We intentionally sculpted thin, blended or feathered
edges on the surface over previously cured and hardened
layers. Ultra-thin layers tend to peel and delaminate
especially along the leading edge of a new batch
There was no delamination or lifting along the thin
feathered edges. There was no water migration under
these edges to pop off the fine transition between
new and older batches
Ice expansion can be destructive if captured within the
details of a sculpture, especially those penetrating to
older lower layers. We sculpted deep water/ice capturing
ravines into the surface, specifically reaching and
exposing deeper areas to encourage delamination and
breakage into older layers. We also aggressively frayed
the ravine fibers to hold the ice in these deep features.
The captured ice expanding in the ravines did not
break off any details. The water did not migrate into
the exposed lower layers of the ravines. There was no
delamination at the base of the ravines into the lower
batches
Extreme wet and freezing weather changes can quicky
erode fine surface details. We drew delicate and shallow
designs into the surface to observe any reduction of
quality.
The delicate details drawn onto the surfaces remained
unaffected and clear.
Making Art Accessible
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