Paint Stripping in Budleigh Salterton

The Moore & Franks approach in Budleigh Salterton

Budleigh Salterton runs to larger detached and Edwardian villas, and that means plenty of painted joinery and rendered elevations to keep up — along Marine Parade, up the climbing roads round West Hill and Coastguard Road, and out toward East Budleigh Road. Lyme Bay salt gets into the paint on the exposed fronts and lifts it, while sheltered joinery simply tires and flakes with age. Either way it wants stripping back properly before repainting. Moore & Franks lift failed paint with DOFF superheated steam, gentle on soft render and old timber alike. Family-run, twenty-five years, insured to £5m, an easy 25 minutes down the coast from Topsham.

Budleigh Salterton runs to larger detached and Edwardian villas with a lot of painted joinery — sash windows, deep eaves, porches and railings around West Hill, Coastguard Road and the climbing streets above the front. On homes this size the paint problem is usually tired, layered gloss on the timber and the odd blown patch of rendered elevation rather than one wholesale failure. DOFF superheated steam softens years of built-up coating and lifts it off the timber cleanly, with none of the scorch a heat gun leaves or the gouging of a scraper, back to sound wood ready to repaint properly.

On the seafront villas along Marine Parade the salt does something particular — it crystallises in the paint surface and holds damp there, so the coating blisters and chalks even on walls that look recently done. Out to the villages at East Budleigh and Otterton the fabric changes to older cob and lime render, where paint has to breathe or it fails, and a modern impermeable coating trapped over cob will blister as surely as any seafront wall. On both we work gently, matching the method — steam, and a poultice where a stubborn modern film needs softening first — to the age of what we are lifting.

Owners here tend to want a place kept properly, and that cuts both ways — sometimes the right advice is to do less. If the paint on a villa is broadly sound and only failing along a run of joinery or a single elevation, taking the whole lot back is money wasted, and we will say so on the visit and quote the smaller job instead. Where a coating has properly gone, stripping back to a sound surface first is what makes the repaint last. The site visit and written quote are free.

Our Budleigh Salterton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX9 postcode area and the surrounding villages (The Octagon and Fairlynch Museum, Marine Parade and the pebble beach, River Otter estuary and South Farm Road, West Hill and Coastguard Road, East Budleigh and Otterton villages, Budleigh Salterton Golf Club).