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.
Retail, offices & commercial buildings, Durbanville
Every hour your doors are shut costs more than the paint.
So the question on a commercial repaint is not what a litre costs. It is whether the contractor can work at night, on a Sunday, behind hoarding, in phases, without a single lost trading hour. That is the job we quote.
- Based in Durbanville, working Durbanville, Aurora, Vierlanden, Eversdal, Welgemoed, Bellville, Brackenfell, Kraaifontein, Kuils River, Plattekloof, Sonstraal Heights, Panorama, Kenridge, Fisantekraal and surrounds
- WhatsApp us and we reply during office hours.
- Written scope, one fixed price for the job
Problem & approach
Where these projects go wrong, and how we handle them.
The usual problem
Commercial repaints go wrong on programme, not on product. A domestic painter takes on a shopfront, blocks the entrance with drop sheets on a Saturday morning, leaves scaffold standing across the walkway for a fortnight, and every day of that is turnover walking past to a competitor. Or the building looks tired for years because nobody wants to own the disruption. And in Durbanville, where a tenant's frontage is competing with a brand-new development down the road, a chalking parapet and a rust-streaked shopfront quietly reprice the whole building in a customer's head before they reach the door.
Our approach
We programme commercial work around trading. Night shifts, Sundays, public holidays, unit by unit, hoarded off and cleaned down before you open. The scope is written first: measured areas, preparation, primer, product, coats, and exactly which hours we are on site. Signage, glazing, shopfronts, aluminium, steelwork and walkways are protected and cleaned daily. And where a leak is what is really staining the ceiling tiles, we quote the waterproofing with Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber rather than painting over the evidence.
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.
- Site survey with the property owner, tenant or facilities manager
- Measured area schedule and photographic condition report
- Written scope with preparation, primer, product, coats and working hours
- One fixed price for the whole job
- After-hours, night, weekend or phased programme so trading continues
- Protection of signage, glazing, shopfronts, tills, stock and walkways
- High pressure cleaning and removal of failed coatings
- Crack repair, plaster patching, rust treatment on steelwork and balustrades
- Two full coats of Plascon exterior or the correct interior system
- Line marking, bollards, kerbs and service doors where included
- Daily clean-down so the site is trading-ready every morning
- Handover pack with photographs 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 the owner, tenant, facilities manager or managing agent
- 2
Site survey, including a look at what the building's frontage says to a customer
- 3
Measure, condition report and photographs
- 4
Written scope, working hours and one fixed price for the whole job
- 5
Programme agreed with tenants and, where needed, centre management
- 6
Set up, protect and hoard the work area
- 7
Preparation, repair, priming and two coats, in agreed shifts
- 8
Nightly clean-down and trading-ready check
- 9
Walk-through, snag list, handover 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.
- Signage manufacture, shopfitting, glazing and electrical work are other trades. We coordinate around them, we do not pretend to do them.
- Waterproofing and damp proofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. No torch-on, no injection damp courses.
- Work above a public walkway needs the right access and permissions, and sometimes centre management sign-off. We build that into the programme.
- Night and weekend shifts carry a premium. It is in the quote, in writing, not added afterwards.
- 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 commercial & retail painting 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.
WhatsApp a photoFAQ
Commercial & Retail Painting: 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.
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.
Keep reading
The pages our Durbanville clients read before they phone us.
Start here
- Painters in DurbanvilleWhat we charge, how we scope it, and why the cheap quote was never cheaper.
- Asbestos roof: seal it or remove it?The honest cost comparison nobody publishes.
Durbanville, service by service
- Roof waterproofing in Durbanville
- Damp proofing in Durbanville
- Exterior painting in Durbanville
- Interior painting in Durbanville
- Asbestos roof encapsulation in Durbanville
- Complex and body corporate repaints in Durbanville
Where we work
- Painters & waterproofing in DurbanvilleWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in AuroraWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in VierlandenWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in EversdalWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in WelgemoedWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in BellvilleWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in BrackenfellWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in KraaifonteinWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in Kuils RiverWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in PlattekloofWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in Sonstraal HeightsWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in PanoramaWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in KenridgeWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
- Painters & waterproofing in FisantekraalWhat the housing stock here needs, and what it costs.
Complexes, commercial & managed buildings
- Body corporate & complex repaintingA scope trustees can compare, phased block by block.
- Commercial & retail paintingShops and offices painted after hours, never closed.
- Warehouse & industrial coatingRusted metal roofs sealed, hot workshops cooled.
- For property managers & agentsWritten scopes, fixed prices, photographs for the file.
- Wine farm & estate paintingOld lime plaster, gables and cellars, handled properly.
Business parks & work at height
- Painting in Atlas GardensWarehouses and offices done around your trading hours.
- Painting in Durbanville HillsExposed, wind driven buildings need their own specification.
- Factory & industrial paintingWater first, then steel, then walls. In that order.
- Office park & multi-tenant repaintsFloor by floor, out of hours, nobody loses a day.
- Exterior crack & plaster repairWhy the crack came back, and how it is properly fixed.
- Working at heights paintingThe compliance to demand before anyone leaves the ground.
- Scaffolding & access paintingAccess is priced per erection. Plan around that and save.
- Painting tender checklistOne page, so three quotes describe the same job.
Specialist systems
- Rubber Sealant® Liquid RubberApproved applicator and reseller: prices, coverage, colours and guarantee terms.
- Buy liquid rubber in DurbanvilleThe same drums we use, collected by arrangement.
- Liquid rubber prices, per litre and per m²Every price published, with the coverage behind it.
- Asbestos roof encapsulationSeal the sheets in place instead of paying to strip them.
- Asbestos roof coating, Cape TownWhy a R60 coating lifts and a R285 system does not.
- Asbestos roof repairStop the leak without lifting a single sheet.
- Asbestos roof sealing costReal rates and three worked roofs, arithmetic shown.
- Asbestos roofing, Cape TownWhat you actually have up there, and what to do about it.
- How long an asbestos roof lastsThe real lifespan, and how sealing extends it.
- Waterproofing & damp proofingLiquid rubber on roofs, walls and rising damp.
Durbanville and surrounds
Get a fixed price for your commercial & retail painting.
Three ways to start, all of them quick. Send a WhatsApp, tap to call, or leave your details and we come back with a written scope and one fixed price for the whole job.
WhatsApp Leroy now Call 079 435 6308
Monday–Friday 08:00–17:00
What happens after you send it
We reply, ask the few questions that matter, then book a proper look at the property. You get a written scope, one fixed price for the whole job, and a straight answer on what we will not do.
One-year workmanship guarantee on qualifying Williams & Co work.
Takes about 20 seconds