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.
Durbanville Hills & Contermanskloof
Up here the weather does the specifying, not the brochure.
Durbanville Hills sits high, open and straight into the wind. Rain does not fall on these buildings, it is driven at them. That changes what a coating has to do, and it is why a specification that works in a sheltered street fails on this ridge.
- 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
Buildings on this side of Durbanville take a beating that owners underestimate until the first proper winter front. Wind driven rain pushes water sideways under sheet laps, over flashings, behind parapet copings and into every open joint, so the leak shows up metres from where the water got in. The summer south easter sandblasts the west and south west elevations until the coating chalks years before the north face does. Steel rusts faster. Sealant joints open faster. And because the damage is weather driven rather than age driven, a landlord looking at a ten year old building often finds one elevation almost fine and another one finished. Repaint the whole thing on the same specification and the same rate, and you will be back at the bad elevation long before the good one.
Our approach
We survey elevation by elevation and specify accordingly, because on an exposed site they are not the same building. Weather facing walls get the preparation and the film build they actually need. Every open joint, coping, flashing and penetration is treated as detail waterproofing work in its own right, using Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber, priced as its own line. Then decoration goes on over a substrate that is dry and sound. You get one written scope, one fixed price for the whole job, and a programme that accounts for wind days instead of promising a date that the site will not allow.
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.
- Elevation by elevation survey, with the weather facing walls specified separately
- Photographic condition report and a written water path for every leak on record
- Measured area schedule so the quote can be checked line by line
- Detail waterproofing to parapets, copings, flashings, box gutters and penetrations in liquid rubber
- Crack repair, plaster patching and joint sealing before decoration
- Rust treatment and coating of steelwork, railings, roller shutters and palisade
- Full wash and removal of chalking and failed coatings
- Two full coats of Plascon exterior over the specified primer
- One fixed price for the whole job, waterproofing itemised separately
- Programme with wind and weather days built in, and one named site contact
- 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
8 steps from enquiry to handover.
- 1
Enquiry from the owner, tenant or managing agent
- 2
Site walk, including roof and high level access where it is safe to do so
- 3
Measure and condition survey per elevation
- 4
Written scope, access strategy and one fixed price
- 5
Programme agreed around operating hours and the weather window
- 6
Water related work first, then substrate and steel repairs
- 7
Preparation, priming and two coats per elevation
- 8
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.
- Waterproofing and damp proofing 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 can be encapsulated; sheeting that is already failing cannot.
- Structural cracking, roof sheet replacement and glazing need the right trade. We flag them at survey.
- High wind stops high level work. We build weather days in rather than rush a coat on in conditions that will ruin it.
- Qualifying Rubber Sealant® systems may carry a 13-year manufacturer product guarantee, subject to manufacturer inspection, specification, application, certification and maintenance conditions.
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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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Painting Contractors in Durbanville Hills: 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.