Paint Stripping in Tiverton

The Moore & Franks approach in Tiverton

We're properly local to Tiverton — we run a landline here and know the town's housing well. There's no sea salt this far up the Exe and Lowman valleys; the enemy is slow-drying damp instead. Shade, leaf-fall and river mist keep painted walls wet, so masonry paint blisters and peels on the rendered Victorian terraces through Westexe and Elmore, and joinery flakes on the older farmhouses out at Chettiscombe and Bolham. Failed paint like that needs taking back before repainting. Moore & Franks lift it with DOFF superheated steam — gentle, low pressure, no blasting. Family-run, twenty-five years in, insured to £5m, and properly local to Tiverton.

There's no sea salt this far up the Exe and Lowman valleys, so paint in Tiverton fails for a different reason — slow-drying damp. Shade, leaf-fall and river mist keep walls wet, and masonry paint blisters and peels on the rendered Victorian terraces through Westexe and Elmore where the elevations rarely get a proper dry spell. Painting over blown paint on a wall that stays damp just repeats the failure. DOFF superheated steam softens and lifts the coating at low pressure, back to sound render, so a fresh breathable finish stands a chance of lasting.

Out at Chettiscombe and Bolham the stock turns to stone-and-cob farmhouses, where paint sits on breathable fabric and old timber joinery that has to be treated gently. Layered gloss on farmhouse windows and doors comes back clean with steam, without the scorch of a heat gun on soft old wood. On the modern rendered estates like Blundell's Heights the problem is masonry paint peeling on damp, shaded walls — usually a straight steam job, though a stubborn plastic coating gets a poultice first. Being properly local, we know which parts of town hold the damp worst.

We run a Tiverton landline and work the town regularly, and that means we would rather give you the honest answer than the bigger invoice. If the paint on a wall is broadly sound and only failing in patches, a full strip is overkill — we will say so and quote the repair instead. Where a coating has well and truly blown on a slow-drying Tiverton wall, though, stripping it back to sound first is the only way the repaint holds. The site visit and written quote are free, with no obligation.

Our Tiverton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX16 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Tiverton town centre & Westexe, Grand Western Canal, Blundell's School, Bolham & Knightshayes, Chettiscombe, Elmore).