Paint Stripping in Crediton

The Moore & Franks approach in Crediton

Crediton's distinctive red-sandstone cottages line the High Street, with Victorian terraces up Bowden Hill and Park Road and newer estates out at Pedlerspool and Forches Cross. Sat in the Creedy valley with farmland on every side, the town holds damp, and that moisture lifts masonry paint and gloss off render and joinery until it blisters and flakes. When a coating has failed like that, it needs stripping back to sound before it's redone. Moore & Franks soften and lift old paint with DOFF superheated steam — low pressure, kind to soft stone, render and old timber. Family-run, twenty-five years, £5m public liability, a quick twenty minutes from Topsham.

Crediton's red-sandstone cottages along the High Street are distinctive, and where they have been painted, the coating and the soft stone underneath need careful handling. Sat in the Creedy valley with farmland on every side, the town holds damp, and that moisture lifts paint off render and stone until it blisters and flakes. Stripping failed paint off soft sandstone or lime render is a job for steam, not abrasion — DOFF superheated steam softens and lifts the coating at low pressure, back to a sound surface, without eating into the stone the way grit-blasting would.

The Victorian terraces up Bowden Hill and Park Road carry layered gloss on joinery and painted render fronts, and the post-war semis around Lords Meadow and the newer estates at Pedlerspool and Forches Cross throw up flaking masonry paint on damp elevations. Old gloss and lime-based paint come back cleanly with steam; where a wall has been over-coated in a modern plastic masonry paint that won't lift on its own, we soften it first with a poultice or chemical stripper. We read the coating before we start rather than assuming one method fits every Crediton wall.

Farmland on every side and a valley that holds damp mean Crediton paint fails often, but we are straight about scope. If a coating is broadly sound and only flaking in patches, a full strip is overkill and we will say so, quoting the repair instead. Where the paint has properly blown — the usual story on a shaded, damp-held elevation — taking it back to sound first is what stops the next coat failing the same way. The free site visit is where we settle which of the two your wall needs.

Our Crediton customers are typically within 20 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX17 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Crediton Parish Church (Holy Cross), Lords Meadow Leisure Centre, Newcombes Meadow, Sandford, Newton St Cyres, Shobrooke).