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.
Factories, workshops & production buildings
The roof leaks over the line. Everything else is cosmetic.
On an industrial building the order of work is worth more than the product choice. Coat the walls under a leaking roof and you have paid for that wall twice. Here is how we sequence a factory so the money lands in the right place first.
- 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
Industrial buildings get maintained reactively, and the reactive order is almost always the wrong order. Somebody notices the office end looks tired, so the office end gets painted. Meanwhile the IBR roof is rusting at the fixings, the box gutter is holding water, the parapet is pushing damp down the inside of the north wall and the portal frame steel has gone from surface rust to pitting behind the cladding. Two winters later there are stains on freshly painted walls, product is being moved away from a drip, and the maintenance budget has been spent on the least important surface in the building. The other half of the problem is access: roof work, gutters, high level steel and the top of the walls each get quoted as separate little projects in different months, so the same scaffolding or MEWP is paid for three or four times over.
Our approach
We survey the whole building once and sequence it properly: water first, then everything that shares the same access, then substrate and steel repairs, then decoration. Roof and gutter work uses Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber as a system in its own right, priced separately so it cannot be thinned to fit a wall rate. Steel is treated for rust rather than painted over it. Then the walls go on last, because they are the fastest to do and the easiest to fit around production. One survey, one written scope, one fixed price for the whole job, and a zoning plan agreed with your operations people before we set a single ladder down.
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.
- Whole building survey: roof, gutters, cladding, portal steel, walls, roller doors and yard steelwork
- Water path diagnosis and a written record of every leak
- Measured areas by zone and level, so the quote can be checked
- Liquid rubber roof and gutter waterproofing, priced and warranted as its own system
- Rust treatment and coating of portal steel, roller shutters, door frames, palisade and handrails
- Crack repair, plaster patching and joint sealing before decoration
- Two full coats of Plascon exterior over the specified primer
- Access bundled: everything needing the same scaffold, tower or MEWP done in one erection
- Zoning and exclusion plan agreed with your operations team
- Line marking and safety colour reinstatement where it forms part of the scope
- Weekly photographic progress and a handover pack for the maintenance file
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
11 steps from enquiry to handover.
- 1
Enquiry from the owner, plant or facilities manager
- 2
Site walk with operations, so the zoning plan is realistic
- 3
Roof, gutter and high level inspection with photographs
- 4
Measure and written scope, sequenced water first
- 5
One fixed price for the whole job, waterproofing itemised
- 6
Programme and exclusion zones agreed in writing
- 7
Roof, gutter and water related work
- 8
High level and access dependent work while access is standing
- 9
Substrate repairs, rust treatment and steelwork
- 10
Wall decoration and line marking, zone by zone
- 11
Walk-through, snag list and handover 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.
- We do not replace roof sheeting, do structural steel repairs, or carry out electrical or mechanical work. Those need the right trade and we will say so.
- Waterproofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. No torch-on, no injection damp courses.
- We do not remove, cut, break, drill or dispose of asbestos. Sound asbestos cement sheeting is encapsulated in place; failing sheeting is not something we can seal.
- Never pressure wash an asbestos cement roof. It aerosolises fibres, and we will not do it.
- Shutdown and out of hours work is priced as what it is. Nobody wins when it is hidden in a rate.
- 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 factory & industrial 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
Factory & Industrial 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.
Commercial enquiry
Tell us about the building. We come out and survey it.
No obligation, no call centre. We walk the building, photograph what we find, and come back with a written scope and one fixed price for the whole job, with the waterproofing itemised on its own line.