Why should I have a wall coating on my house and not traditional masonry paint?

The ‘great’ British weather can be very demanding on the exteriors of buildings with long damp months of mist, fog and rain, frosty cold winters and damp spring times, and the summer is not that much better too!

So what does this do to our houses and why should we not just choose to have the exterior walls of our house painted every year instead of investing a little bit more money in a long life weatherproof exterior wall coating?

Within both the trade and the DIY markets, there are various ways of decorating the outside of your home, such as pebble dash, coloured render, tyrolean and of course traditional masonry paint, however these offer only DECORATION to the outside walls and that is it, nothing else, so how do we PROTECT the exterior walls from the effects of the British weather?

Normal masonry paint is essentially coloured water and in most cases, will only give your home very basic protection, and will of course make it look nice, if the painting job has been done correctly!

Here’s what the NPA exterior wall coating system can do for you!

• Stop all types of damp.
• MASONRY PAINT DOES NOT STOP DAMP!
• Eliminate condensation in the home.
• NORMAL PAINT DOES NOT STOP CONDENSATION!
• Cuts wind chill and lowers heating bills.
• PAINT WON’T DO THIS!
• Eliminates the need to repaint every year.
• …UNLIKE PAINT WHICH HAS TO BE RE-DONE EVERY YEAR OR 2!
• Available in any colour, including transparent.
• WE HAVE A STANDARD RANGE Of 12 COLOURS AND A CUSTOM RANGE OF 1,000’s!
• SOME WALL COATINGS COMPANIES ONLY OFFER 10 OR 12 AND THAT’S IT!
• A range of finishes, from smooth to coarse.
• MOST PAINT IS SMOOTH ONLY; NOT GOOD FOR HIDING IMPERFECTIONS!
  
• Suitable for ALL types of wall surface.
• MOST NORMAL PAINT IS ONLY EFFECTIVE ON SMOOTH-ISH WALLS!
  
• Fully protects your home against the weather.
• NORMAL MASONRY PAINT OFFERS VERY LITTLE WEATHERPROOFING.
  
• Applied by skilled installation teams.
• NOT A “LITTLE MAN” DOWN THE ROAD FOR “CASH”!
• Over 24 years proof of performance.
• HOW LONG HAS YOUR LOCAL DECORATOR BEEN AROUND?
  
• Walls fully repaired before application.
• THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT: PAINTERS AND DECORATORS WILL PAINT YOUR HOME AND THAT IS ALL THEY WILL DO. THEY WILL PAINT OVER HOLLOW RENDERM CRACKS, LOOSE PEBBLEDASH, THE LOT!
  

Well, someone’s come up with a way you CAN keep the house in good condition, without breaking the bank, and with not really any hassle at all!

The “Never paint again” exterior wall coatings company can reduce your annual ongoing home maintenance costs with an affordable one-off payment, for a high quality one-off treatment of an exterior flexible wall coating.

What is the best way to keep your home maintained?

Well, its certainly not giving the house, (your biggest investment), a cheap coat of paint from a car boot sale, applied by a roller or brush you found under the stairs!!!!!!! The best way is to have an exterior wall coating specialist treat your house walls with one of their weatherproof high performance exterior wall coatings.  Why? Well, a wall coating paint job will completely eliminate exterior maintenance on your home for at least 15 years! (Yes, that is NOT a mistake; your home will not need a thing doing to the outside for at least 15 years).

The NPA exterior wall coating system doesn’t crack, fade or peel and it also stops rising damp and penetrating damp and we have a range of home improvements services to suit all budgets. NPA will bend over backwards to help you (but not literally!) and we are always here on the end of the phone or email, to dispense good advice to our customers.

So what’s behind the promises? Well, rather than your local builders “verbal” guarantee, or the one he writes on the back of a cigarette packet, the NPA guarantee is a written one, a formal legal document, that is backed by a leading warranty provider, meaning that if the company who do work on your home were to disappear tomorrow (highly unlikely to say the least!), you would still be covered in the unlikely event that something went wrong.

You can even transfer the warranty to the new owners if you sell your home, meaning that not only is having an exterior wall coating on your house a super-wise move, it also gives you an extra bargaining tool if you are trying to sell your home.

Imagine if you were BUYING a house and the outside looked good, but of course you DON’T KNOW what’s underneath that new coat of masonry paint (Subsidence, cracked or hollow render? Damp?)

Well the NPA wall coating teams cure all the problems with the house before hand and with their maintenance free exterior wall coating, the paint finish will not fade, chip, crack or peel, and along with the guarantee, it means that if you buy a house with one of our insurance backed warranty covered wall coatings, you are buying total peace of mind! Any problems get straight on the phone and we would send some one around! It’s really That easy!

So if you are getting your house ready to sell, or you plan to stay put and spend a but of time and money making it weatherproof but looking good at the same time, then you could do wrong than to give the chaps at NPA a call!

They can be reached, 7 days a week, on freephone 0800 970 4928, or visit their website at www.neverpaintagain.co.uk

This example of our work shows a smart modern detached (extended) family house located near Chester, Cheshire. We transformed the house from bare dull brick finish into a bright light coloured wall coating finish.

This deceptively spacious property itself had been carefully maintained by its owners, and was in good condition so not too much repair and prep work was required.

This house had all its windows and doors masked up, and then a coat of cement slurry was added to the walls, and then a waterproof primer, and the top coat finally sprayed, with Andura tex gard classic, fine texture.

Needless to say the owners are delighted with their clean new house!

If you have a brick house, painted or unpainted, that you would like us to take a look at, please get in touch by clicking the banner below.

…..stick around and have a look at the full project photo portfolio below……….(Click images to enlarge)

This late Victorian house in the Peverell area of Plymouth, Devon, had been neglected over the years and needed much exterior repair and decoration work.

The new owners had sympathetically restored the inside to a very high standard,  putting back in all the lovely features that previous owners had ripped out over the years, and the last job was to have the exterior refurbished.

Our expert wall coatings installation team took 4 days to refurbish the outside walls of this Victorian house, repairing all the bad render, which was matched in perfectly, so much so, that once a rendered or stucco house is done by us, you cannot see the repairs. As the property was on a busy street with no front garden, great care had to be taken to protect the neighbouring houses, and also the street and pedestrians from any work carried out.

If you have a terraced house, or an end of terrace, and are getting fed up with having it painted every year, why not just call us for a chat, you may be surprised how easy it is to transform your high maintenance house into a maintenance free one!

And the most important thing is, we preserve the house and its character for years to come…….

A grand brick-built English country home in need of some TLC.

The old brick walls were worn and in very poor condition and the rendering was crumbling.

The transformation of this house with restored render followed by the NPA wall coating system is truly amazing and needless to say, the owners were absolutely delighted with the end result.

This large project also included the restoration of the stables and staff accommodation. Minimal disruption was caused to the owners. The exterior wall finish of this grand property will look this good for at least the next 15 years as it is now protected with our weatherproof exterior protective wall coatings.

We don’t only do grand houses either!

Check out the photo gallery pages to see other houses transformed with our protective exterior wall coatings………

Our main exterior wall coating application contractors (all seasons systems ltd), have been highly commended for such an excellent transformation of this delightful holiday accommodation, which was implemented through the guidance of a respected local Chartered engineer and surveyor.

We have repaired old and loose render here, fixed loose mortar joints, sealed cracks in the tyrolean and the rendered walls, and re-pointed the stone work, we protected the bare stone with an invisible silicone waterproof coatings, details of which can be found by clicking anywhere around here.

The painted part (and more modern extension) to the property was fully repaired and then coated with 2 coats of Andura textured masonry coating, the product leader in its field. This fine house will be warmly welcoming guests to a pristine finished building for at least the next 15 years under guarantee, and who knows, maybe even longer!

This delightful house is arranged into high quality holiday apartments, the details of which can be found below, plus we have taken the liberty of including a short video from you-tube, highlighting this lovely idyllic location that our teams had the privilege to work on during early 2010. We wish the owners every success with their holiday cottages venture.

(TIP: Scroll down past the video screen for more gallery images!)

…and finally here are some more “after” photos of this lovely house, which were submitted to us by email, from the owner….

If your home was textured coated and you think it looks fab and want to show it off on our site, no problem! Simply forward any images and your details to info@neverpaintagain.co.uk and please, its important to let us know if you want your name and the town you live in, to be published on the site with your images or not.

If you own holiday or guest accommodation such as barns, flats, blocks of apartments, town houses, Holiday villas, lets, 2nd homes and so on, please contact us today, we are confident that we can save you a lot of money and hassle!

Thanks again for reading this page, we hope that you enjoyed it……………

G A Bell. Bsc.(hons).Pg.Dp.
Editor

Never Paint Again.

26th July 2010

To enquire about visiting this lovely guest house and holiday accommodation, visit their website at http://www.lakesnw.co.uk/hudcot/

Driving rain across adjoining fields had lashed at the walls so hard that water was coming in through the window frames, and the cracks (look closely at the BEFORE image by CLICKING to expand the image, to see what we mean .)

Some serious renovation was needed to preserve this delightful late “arts and crafts” style house.

….and if you are wondering what roughcast actually is, it is a term that can be vaguely attributed to pebbledash, which has usually a need for a decorative covering, sometimes a coloured cement wash or tyrolean coating, and sometimes it is a sprayed wet-dash render, similar to a mixture of pebbledashing and tyrolean wall finishes.

This lovely house was a credit to its owners INTERNALLY but after years of simply “paying a man down the pub” to paint the house, the owners knew that something a bit more substantial was needed, especially as the property had started leaking water too.

In one fine spring week, our teams hacked off all the loose roughcast render, replaced it and tyroleaned with a heavy mix to reinstate the textured wall surface, so much so, the repairs were invisible once the primer was painted onto the house!

The property was finally finished off with Andura textured masonry coating (Which is the ONLY other coating recommended by NPA).

This house will look this good for at least the next 25 years.

If you have a roughcast, pebbledashed or tyrolean house, dont despair, call us today, we can help you, and at a price that Won’t shock you!

Call us NOW on (0800) 970 4928

Speak to you soon.

This old lovely house in Grimsby, South Humberside is a prime example of the gems we often enjoy to renovate for our clients.

Despite the fact that it had various alterations and additions over the years. The brickwork was sadly in poor condition due to the harsh weather, with loose pointing, defaced bricks and a whole host of other defects.

It took less than a week for our teams to repair and spruce up this lovely house.

Here’s some more shots we took……..