External wall maintenance is essential to the health of a building. All too often we are called upon to
determine the cause and solution to problems with exterior walls that have been poorly maintained. If left
in a poor state of repair, an exterior wall can suffer from structural problems caused by one or many of the
following: Erosion of mortar or soft stone, delaminated or cracked paint, coating, render or pebbledash.
With poor external walls it is probable to suffer from high levels of penetrating damp, salt contamination
on internal plaster, high levels of mould and algae, spalling brick and stone faces and erosion of pointing joints.
Here at Avant Coatings Ltd, we are industry experts at not only solving these problems but ensuring they
never return. We are so confident in our expertise and ability we guarantee all our work for up to 25yrs.
Very often we see external wall maintenance problems occur due to poor workmanship, incorrect type and
use of products and poor building practises. In fact around 5% of our business is correcting poor
external wall maintenance.
Below is a short list of common faults we continuously find when attending properties that have been
poorly maintained by what seems, unskilled external renovators:
- Bridging a buildings damp proof course
- Incorrect use of Cement based mortar on a structure build with Hydraulic Lime
- Poor quality Paint
- Poorly installed Paint or Coating
- Incorrect specification of Coating type to damp or defective walls
- Poorly pointed window frames
- Roofing and guttering Problems
We ensure the materials we use in our conservation, restoration and wall maintenance are specified correctly
to work in harmony with the existing building. We can even make external wall maintenance
becomes a thing of the past with solutions that are maintenance free! If you would like
more information on external wall maintenance, don’t hesitate to drop us a line or give
us a call on 0800 500 3146, we’ll do what we can to help.