People choose to have us paint their home
for a variety of reasons, and more often than not, it’s because their property
needs far more than just a simple lick of paint!
Does your house need more than your local
painter and decorator is willing to take on?
Does the property have damp issues and
maybe a whole lot more?
Help is at hand!
Here’s an example of a home we worked on
recently, in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, which was built of
traditional local stone, but over the years had suffered badly with damp
penetrating into the building.
We’re going to briefly show you what we did
to this property, highlighting three of the main stages of how we weatherproof
and protect a building, giving it lasting damp protection for up to, and over,
20 years, guaranteed.
You can always rely on NPA for genuine
photos of jobs that ourselves or our approved contractors have carried out
around the country, since 1986. Many rival house painting websites
show photos scanned from supplier catalogues, or they steal photos from other
websites, so be warned!
Fixing up an old home in County Durham.
The first thing our team does when they
arrive on site is to start carrying out repairs to each elevation to
be treated. As we offer a no quibble 20 year guarantee, nothing is left to
chance when we repair the house, so any cracks, are cut out and filled with an
epoxy resin mortar and then matched back into the wall.
- On rendered houses, we also replace the hollow or loose render if needed, and this also applies to homes with pebbledash.
We then mask up the doors and the
windows so as to not make any mess, and of course we lay dust sheets down
on the lawns and the paths. We then concocted a cement slurry, using
sand, cement, water and a PVA mix, and brushed it across the wall, like this……
- This is much harder than it looks by the way, and this article is written by someone who has actually spent many years actually DOING THE WORK you see on this site.
As you can see, although it doesn’t look
great just now, the pointing that was missing has now been filled in, and any
friability or loose elements to the surface have been cured, giving us an
excellent key and a starting point for the rest of the process.
We have to wait a day until this dries,
weather permitting, and then we have to wrap the house up in masking paper once
again, in readiness for the second stage, the primer coating.
Applying a primer before our wall coatings
can be sprayed.
Now the house is repaired, the wall is
stabilised and we have protected the areas not to receive paint, we continue
with hand applying a primer coating across the whole wall.
The image above shows us getting ready for
spraying the textured coating onto the wall and note the spray machine in
the foreground. As NEVER PAINT AGAIN textured masonry coatings are viscous,
unlike masonry paint, we have to use pressure spray to apply it to the house.
This is adjustable by the operator, giving
him complete control over the rate of flow and the coverage required, which has
to be altered to suit different wall surfaces.
When more than a coat of paint is needed
The owner of this home had a pretty bad
problem with the stone walls soaking up rainwater, which as they are solid
walls and don’t have a cavity, the dampness was easily transferred inside the
house, ruining curtains, carpets and plaster and giving the place that “wet
dog” smell that no-one likes. Apart from dogs.
This is a prime example of why people
choose us and not a local painter and decorator because we offer far more
than a lick of paint, curing all wall defects and eliminating all kinds of
damp, mould and mildew, guaranteed!
The finished article: Bishop Auckland,
County Durham.
The walls of this house are now fully
weatherproofed and damp proofed too, in fact only a week after the work took
place, the owner told us he was so happy at the fact the walls inside were
finally drying out after years of water penetration!
Not
only that, the exterior of this house will now not need repainting for at least
20 years.
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