Render Cleaning in Tiverton

The Moore & Franks approach in Tiverton

Tiverton's our second home — we run a landline here and know the town's housing inside out, from the Heathcoat-era terraces to the big modern estates up towards Blundell's. Sitting where the Exe meets the Lowman, Tiverton holds damp, and render greens over readily on shaded, river-facing walls. The mid-Devon weather is wetter than the coast, so growth comes back fast if it's done wrong. Moore & Franks soft-wash render at low pressure with a long-lasting biocide — never a jet-wash that cracks the coating. Family-run, twenty-five years in, £5m insured, and properly local to Tiverton in a way most firms aren't.

Tiverton's rendered terraces around Westexe and Elmore are packed tight and porous, and that porosity is half the problem. The older sand-and-lime render soaks up the Exe-valley damp and holds it, so green algae works its way into the surface rather than sitting on top. Blasting it just drives water deeper into an already-wet wall. We lift it at low pressure with a biocide that reaches the growth without saturating the render further.

Out toward Chettiscombe and Bolham the stock turns to stone and cob farmhouses, and moss gathers in every valley, joint and shaded gable up there. These old walls need breathing room and a soft touch, never pressure. We match the treatment to the fabric, clearing the moss and lichen the woodland damp encourages while leaving the cob and stone to dry and breathe as they were built to.

The mature trees along the Grand Western Canal and the Lowman shade walls and drop leaf litter that washes grime down render, while the newer K-Rend estates on the edges of town discolour within a season or two of going up. Mid-Devon's rain arrives in longer, steadier spells than the coast's, so walls here can go weeks without a proper dry. There is no salt to fight, though, only persistent damp, and that means a good biocide treatment holds surprisingly well between visits.

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).