Textured Coatings

As the latest torrential rains have shown recently, the weather in UK can be pretty intense for all homes and buildings. There are several ways of protecting your home from weathering. Damp is a huge problem in the UK for house owners and with the right help this is really avoidable with the correct wall coatings. More than seventeen per cent of the homes in the UK have exhibited damage down to penetrating damp.

There are lots of reasons why water may get into your house and create damage. Broken guttering, drain pipes, poorly fitted glazing/windows and roof tiles will all expose your house prone to damp. But the worst is caused by external walls that have been poorly maintained over many years. Over the years stucco on the exterior of your house will break up and the rendering wears away from weathering. Walls often wear away and stonework finally crumbles. Such damamage then makes pathways into your house which will be found by damp.

With excess moisture on your exterior walls, your property is probably going to be damaged by the weather as in extremely cold conditions the water in the masonary will freeze. This will in turn cause the wall to shrink and expand, making cracks. This is frequently reffered to as freeze thaw cracking and can cause many problems.

If allowed to go unchecked damp ingress can cause structural problems for buildings as the water soaks into the wood. The easy common response to all these potential damp problems is simple. Exterior coatings are installed by professional companies.

These wall coatings are micro porous which is to say they are able to breathe and any moisture that seeps through the wall will be able to dry out before it is able to cause any trouble. Also the exterior house painting is a water repellant barrier so that any water that has worked its way in will then be able to dry out, in the same way as human skin works.

Joe Smith has a website and Blog featuring lots of advice about wall
coatings. It outlines why textured coatings are best when house
painting.