Efflorescence in external walls of buildings is often wrongly attributed to a decorative issue, however this is not always the case and not dealing with brick wall problems like efflorescence can have serious consequences.
Tag: exterior wall coatings
Exterior wall coatings are specially formulated long life paints, usually used for the exterior walls of buildings. They differ from normal masonry paint wall coating insofar as they contain special ingredients
Exterior house painting by our team, in Newton Abbot, Devon, and what a transformation.
This semi-detached house in the market town of Newton Abbot in Devon, had various issues with cracked rendering and flaking paint. Normal masonry paint will not stop these problems occurring, so the owner asked our Plymouth office to come up with a more longer lasting solution, which they certainly did!
Forget paint! Weatherproof and protect your walls with masonry coatings
We explain the different types of masonry wall coatings. We will help you discover which paint or coating is suitable for your house and the benefits it offers Is masonry paint best? Are wall coatings better? Paints and wall coatings come in many forms, mixtures, colours, effects and finishes, but which is right for YOUR...Continue reading
Masonry paint: the good and the bad bits about painting a house
Exterior masonry paint is something that everyone knows about and most people have had to use this at some point, but when it has to be done every single year, the costs really start to rise. Is exterior paint any good? Or are there other methods of covering the exterior of your home that are...Continue reading
County Durham: repairing render, cracks and defects to make good this old farm house.
We’ve been busy working on customers houses during the covid-19 lockdown period (April 2020) as our work enables us to carry out the recommended social distancing, and to remain a safe distance from customers and the public. We work around England and Wales and this old farmhouse we are going to show you, was in...Continue reading
Spring into summer by having the outside of your house freshly painted!
If you are one of those people like me who dreads the yearly onslaught of winter, the cold and wet weather, the dark evenings and the general gloominess, spring time can’t come around sooner. Springtime is also the ideal time to get the outside of your house painted, and here is why.
How to clean your exterior textured wall coating the correct way
Although exterior wall coatings and some exterior masonry paints are technically self cleaning, houses next to busy roads can pick dirt up over time. Here is how to clean the outside walls of your house in the professional way, and with minimal equipment or knowledge.
The reason your gable end wall gets most of the weather, and how to protect it
Have you ever wondered why the gable end of your house is usually the coldest wall inside, or at least, it’s the wall that always needs painting, despite the rest of the house looking ok? The gable end of a house (or “pine end” in Wales) is often the side wall of a 3 or...Continue reading
Accelerated weather testing for our wall coatings, PROVE they last for 2 decades!
The exterior wall coating systems that our company use, last for over 20 years. That’s quite a claim isn’t it? We offer a 20 year guarantee to all our customers, so it would be quite a gamble if we didn’t actually know for sure that the paints and coatings would last 20 years? How do...Continue reading
Protective exterior wall coatings beat ordinary masonry paint and it’s the best you can get for your house!
Your house needs something to protect the outside walls, something that normal masonry paint will not provide, but protection from WHAT exactly? We look at why most homes don’t have sufficient protection on the exterior walls, we look at what your home needs protecting FROM, and we suggest ways to add protection to your home...Continue reading
Never Paint Again, painting houses all year round, not just during the summer time.
I originally wrote this in mid November, a time you may think where all house painters and decorators have shut up shop for the winter, yes? Not so. Did you know that we paint the exterior of houses all year round and yes, that includes the colder winter months, so how can we do this...Continue reading
A resin based wall coating can make your brick house stand out from the crowd
If you live in a house of unpainted brick but you are considering having it painted, you will be aware that once you paint a house with a brick exterior, you cannot ever change your mind, it’s done and that’s it! The problem is once you paint brick with masonry paint, it will have to...Continue reading