Paint Stripping in Paignton

The Moore & Franks approach in Paignton

Paignton's painted render and pebbledash take Tor Bay salt and sea fret full on. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Palace Avenue and Roundham, and the 1930s semis through Preston and Goodrington, all show it — coatings blister where the salt gets in and flake where the damp sits, especially on the shaded seaward walls. Once paint has failed it needs stripping back before a fresh finish will hold. Moore & Franks lift old and blown paint with DOFF superheated steam, low pressure and kind to soft render, rather than a grit-blast that opens the surface up. Family-run, twenty-five years in, £5m insured, 35 minutes down from Topsham.

Paignton's Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Palace Avenue and Roundham take Tor Bay salt and sea fret head on, and the painted render and joinery show it — coatings blister where the salt gets into the surface and flake where the damp sits, worst on the shaded, seaward walls. Painting over blown paint on a salt-exposed wall just seals the problem in and it fails again. DOFF superheated steam softens and lifts the failed coating at low pressure, back to a sound surface ready to repaint, without driving more salt water in behind it the way a jet-wash would.

The 1930s and post-war semis through Preston and Goodrington are mostly pebbledash and painted render, and pebbledash hides failing paint in its texture until it is peeling in sheets. The modern estates at Clennon and Blagdon throw up masonry paint flaking on damp elevations. Standard masonry and gloss coatings come off with steam; where a wall carries a modern plastic or elastomeric paint that won't lift cleanly, we soften it first with a poultice and take the residue back to sound render. We assess the texture and the coating properly before settling on a method.

Salt and fret mean paint fails often in Paignton, but not every tired wall needs stripping to bare, and we will tell you the difference on the visit. If a coating is broadly sound and only flaking in patches, a full strip is overkill — we will point you at the repair rather than sell you the bigger job. Where paint has actually blown on a salt-exposed elevation, though, stripping back to sound first is the only way a new coat holds. The site visit and written quote are free.

Our Paignton customers are typically within 35 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ3, TQ4 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Paignton Harbour, Preston Sands, Goodrington Sands, Roundham Head, Paignton Zoo, Clennon Valley).