Paint Removal in Honiton

The Moore & Franks approach in Honiton

Honiton's long Georgian high street is lined with rendered townhouses and old lace-merchant frontages, and behind them sit cob-and-thatch survivors and Victorian brick terraces on New Street and Silver Street. A great deal of that solid-wall fabric has been painted over the years, and in the damp Otter valley a sealing coat traps moisture where it should be breathing out. Moore & Franks remove unwanted masonry paint, limewash and over-painting with DOFF superheated steam and clear graffiti off the high-street shopfronts, gentle on heritage fabric, test patch first. The original render and brick restored. Family-run, twenty-five years, £5m insured.

The Georgian townhouses and old lace-merchant frontages along Honiton's high street are typical of the paint-removal work here. Many are solid-walled and rendered, painted and re-painted over generations, and in the damp Otter valley that sealing coat holds moisture in a wall that was built to shed it. The signs are the usual ones: blistered paint, blown render, a tired frontage that another coat only hides for a while. We lift the unwanted coating with low-pressure superheated steam, clearing it without pitting the soft render underneath, so the wall can dry and the original face returns to the street.

Tucked among the newer stock are cob-and-thatch survivors and, on New Street and Silver Street, Victorian brick terraces, all solid-wall fabric that needs to breathe and all commonly over-painted at some point. On cob especially we work at the lowest pressure that does the job and never reach for anything abrasive. Along the high street the shopfronts pick up the occasional graffiti and tag, which we shift with steam and a graffiti-specific remover at low pressure, so there is no scoured patch left standing out against the weathered frontage around it.

Every Honiton job starts with a test patch on a discreet area. With Georgian render, period brick and old cob all in the mix, proving the method lifts the coating cleanly and leaves the surface sound comes before any full elevation. It keeps us honest with you too: most surfaces come back well, but some old coatings have bonded in for good and will not return fully 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 free.

Our Honiton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX14 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Honiton High Street, St Michael's Church, Heathpark, Dumpdon Hill, Gittisham, Combe Raleigh, River Otter).