Paint Removal in Dawlish

The Moore & Franks approach in Dawlish

Few places are harder on a painted wall than Dawlish, right on the sea wall. The Regency and Victorian terraces along The Strand and Brunswick Place are solid-walled and largely painted, and salt spray keeps damp pressed against them long after the rain stops — so a sealing coat of masonry paint just locks the moisture in. Moore & Franks strip unwanted coatings back with DOFF superheated steam and clear graffiti off the town-centre walls by Dawlish Water, no grit-blasting, test patch first. The original brick and stone brought back to breathe. Family-run, twenty-five years, £5m insured.

Dawlish's older core along The Strand and Brunswick Place is Regency and Victorian terracing, much of it painted over slate and soft render, and it has weathered a lot of sea. Salt holds moisture against these walls long after a shower has passed, and where masonry paint has sealed the surface that damp has nowhere to go. You see it in blistered coats, blown render and brick faces starting to spall. We take the unwanted paint off with low-pressure superheated steam, which lifts it without hammering the soft fabric underneath, so the wall can dry out and the original face comes back.

Behind the front, up around Barton Hill, the 1930s semis carry their own over-painted render, tired from the damp shade the steep wooded valleys throw down. In the town centre, along the walls and shopfronts by Dawlish Water where the black swans sit, we get the regular graffiti and tag calls. Steam shifts a lot of spray paint on its own, and a graffiti-specific remover clears the rest at low pressure, so there is no bright, scoured patch left where the tag was, standing out against the weathered stone around it.

We start every Dawlish job with a test patch on a quiet corner. Salt in a seafront wall changes how coatings behave, so proving the method lifts the paint and leaves the surface sound comes before any full elevation. It keeps us honest with you: most walls come back well, but the odd old coating has bonded in hard and will not go fully back to bare, and we show you that on the test rather than talk it up. The free site visit covers the assessment, the test and a written quote before anything starts.

Our Dawlish customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX7 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Dawlish Warren, Dawlish Water (the Black Swans), Cockwood, Holcombe, Barton Hill, The Strand).