
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.
Atlas Gardens, Contermanskloof & Durbanville Hills
Atlas Gardens is full of good businesses operating out of buildings that have not been touched in a decade. Sun on the west elevation, cracks tracking off the window corners, rust bleeding down from the roof sheets, and a facade that quietly tells every visitor the wrong story.
Problem & approach
Industrial park buildings age in a very specific way and almost nobody budgets for it until it is expensive. The plaster boxes crack at the corners of every opening because the structure moves and the render does not. The parapets get water behind the coping and push damp down the inside of the wall. The IBR roof sheets rust at the fixings first, then bleed streaks down a wall that was painted three years ago. Steel door frames, roller shutters, palisade and balustrades go from surface rust to pitting while the paint budget waits for a better year. Then the tenant renews, the landlord wants the building presentable, and everything gets done at once, badly, over one December shutdown, by whoever answered the phone. That is the repaint that fails in three winters, and the reason it fails is almost never the paint. It is that nobody dealt with the water and the cracks first.
We survey the building properly before anyone quotes a litre. Elevations measured, every crack photographed and classified, roof and parapets walked, steelwork rated, and the water paths written down in plain sentences. Then you get one written scope and one fixed price for the whole job, with the waterproofing itemised as its own line using Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber, not folded into a wall rate where it will get thinned to fit. The programme is built around how your business actually runs: zone by zone, aisle by aisle, early mornings or weekends where trade demands it, and everything that needs the same access done in one erection rather than paid for three times.
What may be included
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.
Products we work with

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
Enquiry from an owner, tenant, facilities manager or managing agent
Site walk with whoever knows the building's history
Measure, condition survey, roof inspection and photographs
Written scope, access strategy and one fixed price for the whole job
Programme agreed around your trading and operating hours
Water related work first: roofs, parapets, gutters and damp walls
Substrate repairs, rust treatment and steelwork
Preparation, priming and two coats, zone by zone
Walk-through per zone, snag list closed before we move on
Final handover with photographs, data sheets and guarantee documentation
Honest limits
A proper contractor should be honest about what a service can and cannot do. These are the things we will always flag.
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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Budgeting
We publish real Cape Town rates, including our own, and explain exactly what a cheaper quote leaves out.

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

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

Roof Painting
Tiles cleaned down, ridges checked and re-bedded where needed, then coated with a specified roof system.
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Durbanville, service by service
Where we work
Complexes, commercial & managed buildings
Business parks & work at height
Specialist systems
Commercial enquiry
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.