Paint Stripping in Teignmouth

The Moore & Franks approach in Teignmouth

Teignmouth catches weather from two sides — open sea and the Teign estuary — and its painted render pays for it. The Regency and Victorian townhouses behind the Triangle, and the painted frontages toward the seafront and the Den, take salt and marine grime that get under the coating and lift it in blisters, high up where the sun never reaches. Failed paint like that has to come off before a fresh finish will hold. Moore & Franks soften and lift old coatings with DOFF superheated steam — low pressure, no scarring of the soft render underneath. Family-run, twenty-five years, £5m public liability, 25 minutes along the coast from Topsham.

The tall Regency and Victorian townhouses set back behind the Triangle are among Teignmouth's trickier paint jobs. Three and four storeys of painted render, packed tight, taking salt and marine grime high up where the sun rarely reaches — the coating blisters and lifts from the top down, streaking as it goes. Height and access shape these jobs as much as the paint itself. DOFF superheated steam lets us soften and lift the failed coating from a safe set-up at low pressure, back to sound render, rather than forcing it and risking both the surface and the crew on a wall three storeys up.

Down toward the seafront and the Den, and along the streets climbing to Bishopsteignton, the painted frontages soak up marine damp that hangs over the town long after rain. Paint on soft render and on old joinery holds a grey-green film and lifts on the shaded gables. Layered gloss on windows and doors comes back clean with steam; blistered masonry paint on the render lifts the same gentle way. Where a frontage has been over-coated in a modern plastic paint that won't steam off cleanly, we soften it first with a poultice, then take the residue back to sound.

A good number of these frontages are holiday lets and second homes, and owners often want them smart for the season without quite knowing what the job needs. We are straight about it: if the paint is largely sound and only failing in patches, a full strip is overkill and we will say so. Where a coating has well and truly blown, stripping it back before repainting is what makes the new finish last through the salt and the visitor months. The site visit and written 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).