Paint Removal in Teignmouth

The Moore & Franks approach in Teignmouth

Teignmouth gets weather from two sides — open sea and the Teign estuary — and the painted rendered townhouses behind the Triangle wear it. Many are solid-walled and coated, and where salt-laden damp is sealed behind masonry paint the fabric cannot dry. There is listed and period stonework near the seafront and the Den under the same trouble, plus the regular graffiti on harbour and town-centre shopfronts. Moore & Franks remove unwanted coatings and clear graffiti with DOFF superheated steam and specialist strippers, gentle on heritage surfaces, test patch first. The original render and stone restored. Family-run, twenty-five years, £5m public liability.

The tall Victorian and Regency townhouses set back behind the Triangle are some of Teignmouth's trickier paint-removal jobs. Three and four storeys, painted render over older fabric, packed tight together, and taking salt off the sea on one side and estuary damp off the Teign on the other. Where masonry paint has sealed those solid walls, the moisture is trapped and the render blows and blisters, worst up high where the sun rarely reaches. We work from a safe set-up with low-pressure superheated steam, lifting the unwanted coating without pitting the soft render underneath, so the wall can dry and the original surface returns.

Nearer the seafront and the Den there is listed and period stonework that has been painted or over-painted at some point, and taking that back to its original face is careful, heritage-minded work rather than anything forced. Around the harbour and the town-centre shopfronts we get the regular graffiti and tag calls. Steam shifts a good deal of spray paint on its own, and a graffiti-specific remover deals with the rest at low pressure. No scoured patch left behind, no bright square standing out against the weathered stone around it.

Every Teignmouth job opens with a test patch on a discreet area. With this much painted render and period stone in the mix, proving the method lifts the coating cleanly and leaves the surface sound comes before any full elevation. It keeps things straight: most surfaces come back well, but some old coatings have bonded in for good and will not return fully to bare, and we would rather show you that on the test than promise the impossible. For listed work we will flag where consent may be needed. The visit, test and quote are free.

Our Teignmouth customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ14 postcode area and the surrounding villages (The Den & seafront, Shaldon Bridge, Teignmouth Pier, The Triangle, Bishopsteignton, Coombe Vale).