Do you work with body corporates and managing agents in Durbanville?

Yes. Complexes and sectional title schemes across Durbanville, Vierlanden, Sonstraal Heights, Eversdal, Kenridge, Welgemoed, Bellville and Brackenfell are a core part of what we do. We are comfortable presenting a scope to trustees or at an AGM, and we work to a managing agent's approval and invoicing process rather than around it.

How much does it cost to repaint a complex?

Exterior repainting starts from R105 per square metre, which includes the wash, crack repair, primer and two full coats. Waterproofing is priced separately, from R265 per square metre for a liquid rubber system. On a scheme the only number that matters is the one that comes after the measure, and that is one fixed price for the whole job in writing.

Can the work be phased so we do not have to fund it all at once?

Yes, and most schemes should. We can phase by block, by elevation or by financial year, and quote each phase separately while holding the same specification and colours across all of them. That keeps the scheme looking like one building rather than four different repaint eras.

How do you keep residents from complaining?

Notices before a block starts, a programme they can see, one named contact, washing lines and parking bays cleared in advance, and nothing left standing over a weekend. Most complaints on complex repaints are about surprise, not about paint.

Our real problem is leaks, not paint. Can you do both?

That is usually the case in older Northern Suburbs schemes, and yes. We quote the waterproofing as its own line using Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber on parapets, flat roofs, box gutters, balconies and damp walls, then paint over a substrate that is actually dry. Painting a wet wall is money spent twice.

How do we compare your quote against the cheaper ones?

Put the three scopes next to each other, not the three totals. Look for the measured area in square metres, the named primer, the number of coats, what happens to the cracks, and what the guarantee actually covers. A quote that will not commit those five things in writing is not a cheaper quote, it is a smaller job.

Body corporates & sectional title, Durbanville & Northern Suburbs

Three quotes. Three different scopes. No way to compare them.

Name: Williams & Co Paint Contractors
Address: Durbanville, Western Cape, ZA
Telephone: 079 435 6308
Price range: R

That is the real problem trustees have, not the price. One contractor quotes two coats, one quotes one and calls it two, and nobody wrote down what happens to the cracks. Here is how we scope a complex repaint so the meeting can actually make a decision.

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Based in Durbanville, working Durbanville, Aurora, Vierlanden, Eversdal, Welgemoed, Bellville, Brackenfell, Kraaifontein, Kuils River, Plattekloof, Sonstraal Heights, Panorama, Kenridge, Fisantekraal and surrounds
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Written scope, one fixed price for the job

Problem & approach

Where these projects go wrong, and how we handle them.

The usual problem

A complex repaint is the largest cheque most bodies corporate ever sign, and it is usually decided off three quotes that measure different things. One is priced on a walk-around from the parking bay. One skips the crack repair because nobody asked for it in writing. One is cheap because it is one coat, thinned, over unwashed walls, which looks perfect on handover day and starts chalking off the north elevation in the second summer. Then the levy has been spent, the reserve fund is empty, and the same walls need doing again years earlier than the budget assumed. Meanwhile the trustees who signed it off are the ones who get asked about it at the AGM.

Our approach

We measure the scheme properly and write the scope down before we price it: every elevation in square metres, every crack and every damp patch photographed and located, the preparation, the primer, the number of coats and the product. You get one fixed price for the whole job, and a programme that phases the work block by block so residents keep access, parking and washing lines. Where the leaks are the real story, and in Northern Suburbs schemes they usually are, waterproofing is quoted as its own line with Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber, not smuggled into a paint rate.

What may be included

Scope you can actually read.

The exact line items on your quote depend on the site inspection. This is the shape of what a typical project of this type includes.

Full site measure with an area schedule per block and per elevation
Photographic condition report: cracks, damp, failed plaster, rusted balustrades, previous coating failures
Written scope stating preparation, primer, product, number of coats and colours
One fixed price for the whole job, with waterproofing itemised separately
A phased programme by block so residents keep access and parking
High pressure clean and full removal of loose, chalking and flaking coatings
Crack repair, plaster patching and sealing of open joints before any paint goes on
Two full coats of Plascon exterior over the specified primer
Roof, gutter, downpipe, balustrade and steelwork attention where it forms part of the scope
Notices for residents before each block starts, and a single site contact throughout
Handover pack with photographs, product data sheets and guarantee documentation

Products we work with

The Systems Behind the Work.

Approved applicator and authorised reseller of Rubber Sealant® Liquid Rubber.
Our preferred paint on most projects.

We are not a Plascon approved applicator. Plascon is simply the paint we choose to specify for its quality and track record, and we will recommend a different system where a project calls for it.

Our process

9 steps from enquiry to handover.

1
Enquiry from a trustee, chairperson or managing agent
2
Site walk with whoever knows the scheme's history
3
Measure, condition survey and photographs of every problem area
4
Written scope and one fixed price for the whole job
5
Trustee or AGM decision, with us available to answer questions on the scope
6
Programme agreed, resident notices issued, first block set up
7
Preparation, repair, priming and two coats, block by block
8
Trustee walk-through per block, snag list closed before we move on
9
Final handover, photographs and guarantee documentation

Honest limits

What we will tell you up front.

A proper contractor should be honest about what a service can and cannot do. These are the things we will always flag.

Structural work, balcony slab repairs, roof sheet replacement and electrical work fall outside a repaint and need the right trade. We say so at the survey rather than paint over it.
Waterproofing and damp proofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. We do not sell or install torch-on, and we do not do injection damp courses.
Rain, wind and the wet season affect the programme. We build weather days in rather than pretend they do not exist.
Access to private balconies, courtyards and gardens depends on residents. Access we cannot get is quoted as a return visit, not billed as a surprise.
Qualifying Rubber Sealant® systems may carry a 13-year manufacturer product guarantee, subject to manufacturer inspection, specification, application, certification and maintenance conditions.

Not sure what your body corporate & complex repainting needs? Send us a photo.

Take one photo on your phone, send it on WhatsApp, and we will tell you what we are looking at. We are in Durbanville most weeks, so a site visit is easy to arrange.

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FAQ

Body Corporate & Complex Repainting: questions we hear

Budgeting

Want the numbers before you phone anyone?

We publish real Cape Town rates, including our own, and explain exactly what a cheaper quote leaves out.

Painting cost guide Waterproofing cost guide

Related work

Recent projects like yours.

A few real Williams & Co jobs. More in the projects gallery.

Exterior Painting

Double-storey home | full exterior repaint

A weather-worn double-storey exterior stripped back, prepared and repainted in a clean two-tone scheme.

Exterior Painting

Single-storey home | exterior and trim

Walls, fascias and trim brought back to a crisp finish, with cracks treated before any coating went on.

Roof Painting

Tiled roof | cleaned and coated

Tiles cleaned down, ridges checked and re-bedded where needed, then coated with a specified roof system.

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Where we work

Complexes, commercial & managed buildings

Business parks & work at height

Specialist systems

Durbanville and surrounds

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