Paint Removal in Brixham

The Moore & Franks approach in Brixham

Brixham's harbour is ringed with tightly-packed Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many painted in the cheerful pastels the town is known for. On a solid wall, though, a coat of masonry paint can trap the relentless salt-laden damp off Berry Head against fabric built to breathe, and that is when it becomes a problem. Moore & Franks remove unwanted or damp-trapping coatings, and clear graffiti and marine grime off the fish-quay and harbour walls, with DOFF superheated steam — gentle on old stone, test patch first, the original surface brought back. Family-run, twenty-five years, £5m public liability.

The tightly-packed Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Brixham harbour are where most of our paint-removal work sits. Many are painted in the town's trademark pastels, and where those coats sit on a solid wall the relentless salt and fret off Berry Head can leave trapped damp behind them. The wall cannot breathe, so the moisture stays put and the render blows or the paint blisters. Where that is happening, or an owner wants back to the original face, we lift the unwanted coating with low-pressure superheated steam, clearing it without abrading the fabric underneath so the wall can finally dry out.

Down on the fish-quay and along the harbour walls we deal with graffiti, tags and heavy marine grime, the sort of grimy build-up a working harbour throws at everything near it. Steam lifts a good deal of it, and a graffiti-specific remover clears the rest at low pressure, without leaving a scoured patch on the stone. Up in Higher Brixham the older stone cottages are softer, breathable fabric, and where they have been over-painted we work them at the gentlest low-pressure setting and keep anything abrasive well away, matching the method to the age of the wall.

Every Brixham job starts with a test patch on a discreet area. This exposed, salt-heavy air changes how coatings behave, so we prove the method lifts the paint and leaves the surface sound before working a whole elevation. It keeps us honest with you: most walls come back well, but some old coatings have bonded in hard and will not go fully back to bare, and we show you that on the test rather than promise the impossible. The site visit, the test and the written quote are all free.

Our Brixham customers are typically within 45 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Berry Head, Brixham Harbour & Fish Quay, Higher Brixham, St Mary's Bay, Churston Ferrers, Galmpton).