Paint Removal in Newton Abbot

The Moore & Franks approach in Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot sits low in the Teign valley, where the air rarely dries out — so masonry paint over a solid wall is a real problem here, holding moisture in fabric that needs to breathe. The Victorian brick terraces near the old station and Courtenay Street have often been painted at some point, and the trapped damp shows in blown render and spalling brick. Moore & Franks strip unwanted coatings back with DOFF superheated steam and clear graffiti off the town-centre shopfronts, no grit-blasting, test patch first. The original brick and stone brought back to breathe. Family-run, twenty-five years, £5m insured.

The Victorian brick terraces near the old station and along Courtenay Street are typical Newton Abbot paint-removal work. Many were painted years ago, and tucked in the bottom of the Teign valley, where wooded slopes at Decoy and Bradley throw shade and the air stays damp for days, that coating traps moisture in a solid wall that should be shedding it. The result is the familiar one: blown render, damp coming through, brick faces starting to crumble. We take the paint off with low-pressure superheated steam so the wall can dry, and the original brick face comes back rather than being sealed under yet another coat.

Round Milber and Buckland the stock turns to 1930s and post-war render, a lot of it over-painted more than once over the decades, and owners often want the wrong colour or a tired old coating gone. In the town centre and around the market we get the regular graffiti and tag calls on shopfronts and side walls. Steam lifts a good deal of spray paint on its own, and a graffiti-specific remover clears the rest at low pressure, so you are not left with a bright, scoured patch where the tag used to be while the rest of the wall stays weathered.

We open every Newton Abbot job with a test patch on a discreet spot. Coatings and substrates vary from street to street, so proving the method lifts the paint cleanly and leaves the surface sound comes before any full elevation. It keeps the conversation straight, too: most brick and render comes back well, but the occasional old coating has bonded in for good and will not go fully back to bare, and we would rather show you that on the test than promise more than the wall will give. The site visit, test and written quote are free.

Our Newton Abbot customers are typically within 30 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ12 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Wolborough, Highweek, Milber, Kingsteignton, Decoy Country Park, Bradley Manor).