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.
Office parks & multi-tenant buildings
Tenants do not read your maintenance plan. They read the parking lot.
A tired facade, a chalking parapet and rust streaks down the stairwell reprice a building in a prospective tenant's head before they reach reception. And every hour of disruption during the repaint is a complaint your leasing team has to answer.
- 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
Multi-tenant buildings are difficult for one reason: everything you do is in somebody's way. Paint smell in an open plan floor at ten in the morning is a formal complaint. Scaffold across a walkway for a fortnight is a parking dispute. Drop sheets over the entrance on a Monday is a reception problem. So the work gets postponed, then postponed again, and by the time it is unavoidable the parapets have been letting water in for years, the balustrades are pitted, the sealant joints have opened and what should have been a repaint is now a repair job with a repaint on top of it. Meanwhile the leasing team is showing a building that looks a decade older than it is.
Our approach
We programme these buildings around the working day rather than through it: floor by floor, elevation by elevation, evenings and weekends where it matters, low odour water based systems in occupied areas, and every space handed back usable before people arrive. Common areas, stairwells and lift lobbies get done in agreed windows with clear signage. Externally, everything that needs the same access happens in one erection so the walkways are not obstructed twice. Waterproofing on parapets, balconies, planters and flat sections is quoted as its own line in Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber, because that is where these buildings actually fail.
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.
- Building survey with measured areas by elevation, floor and common area
- Photographic condition report including parapets, balconies, planters and flat roof sections
- Written scope with preparation, primer, product and coats named per area
- Liquid rubber waterproofing itemised separately, not hidden in a wall rate
- Low odour water based systems in occupied interiors
- Out of hours and weekend programming, with each area handed back usable
- Tenant notices ahead of every floor or elevation, and clear signage in common areas
- Crack repair, joint sealing and rust treatment to balustrades, railings and steelwork
- Two full coats over the specified primer
- One named site contact and weekly photographic progress reporting
- Handover pack with photographs, 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
10 steps from enquiry to handover.
- 1
Enquiry from the owner, asset manager, facilities manager or managing agent
- 2
Site walk including roof, parapets and common areas
- 3
Measure, condition survey and photographs
- 4
Written scope, access and shift strategy, one fixed price for the whole job
- 5
Programme agreed and tenant communication planned
- 6
Water related work first: parapets, balconies, planters, flat sections
- 7
External elevations while access is standing
- 8
Common areas and occupied interiors out of hours, floor by floor
- 9
Walk-through per area, snag list closed before moving on
- 10
Handover documentation for the building file
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.
- Out of hours and weekend work carries a higher rate than daytime work. It is priced openly.
- Waterproofing and damp proofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. No torch-on, no injection damp courses.
- Glazing, cladding replacement, structural repairs, electrical and HVAC work are other trades. We flag them at survey.
- Access to tenanted interiors depends on tenants. Access we cannot get is quoted as a return visit rather than 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 office park & multi-tenant repaints 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
Office Park & Multi-Tenant Repaints: 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.