Exterior wall coatings are basically 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 such as crushed marble, glass fibre, perlite, emulsifiers and resins, ensuring a protective and weatherproof wall coating that far outlasts normal masonry paint. Exterior wall coatings are normally applied by a specialist company using special equipment.
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...
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The tyrolean coating on this house in Worcester had, over the years been severely affected by the weather. We did this job years and years ago, so we scanned the photos and put them online! A blast from the past! The main problem with this house was that the tyrolean, which can get quite...
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Local painters for local people! If you live in or around Ivybridge, we offer a full exterior repair and paint service, which comes with a 20 year guarantee. All estimates and quotes are of course, FREE. Here is a job we did a few years back, a 1980’s semi detached house in Clare street,...
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This another one of our case studies involving work to pebbledashed houses, something we get asked to paint quite frequently. This particular pebble-dashed bungalow in the area of Elburton, near Plymouth in Devon, had evidence of previous repairs and alterations which made the appearance untidy. The owners asked us to totally repaint it with...
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It is very important when applying any spray applied paint or exterior wall finish, to mask up all areas that are not to be sprayed. This short guide explains how we in the trade can mask up a house quickly and easily whilst carrying out external redecoration work. (Masking can also apply to internal...
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A textured coating on your home is without doubt, the Rolls-Royce of exterior wall finishes, outlasting other exterior wall surfaces many times over, but one question we often get asked is does my textured wall coating ever need cleaning? Well the simple answer to that is yes.and no! It depends on where you live,...
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In the better weather, many home owners often think seriously about updating or refreshing the external appearance of their homes with a coat of fresh paint but what if you have bare brick walls and you want to paint them? Is it a good idea? The most important word to remember about painting brick...
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This late Victorian house in Peverell, Plymouth, 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...
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The mainstay of the painting work we do is often to terraced, 4 bed detached, semi’s and so on, but now and again we get the chance to paint somewhere that we can only dream of living in. This grand brick-built English country home needed the exterior repaired and painted. The old walls were...
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This lovely large bungalow near Boscastle on the North Cornish coast looked out over a verdant, sweeping valley, but required repairs to the render and a new coat of paint. Lovely in the summer, but the rest of the year the driving rain and cold winds from the Atlantic ocean, buffeted the house and...
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