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.
Multi-storey access, Cape Town & Durbanville
You are not paying for paint. You are paying to reach the wall.
On anything above two storeys, access is usually the largest single line on the quote. Understand how it is priced and you can cut a multi-storey repaint bill without cutting one gram of quality out of the specification.
- 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
Access is charged per erection, not per square metre, and almost nobody plans around that. So the roof is done in March, the gutters in July when they overflow, the high level steel next summer when somebody notices the rust, and the top of the walls the following year with the repaint. Same building, same elevation, same scaffold, paid for four times. The second version of this mistake is under-specifying access to keep a quote competitive: a ladder job where a tower was needed means rushed work at the top of every elevation, skimped parapet and coping detail, and an elevation that fails first at the exact place nobody can see from the ground. The third is scaffold left standing across an entrance or a parking bay for weeks because nobody sequenced the work to release it.
Our approach
We survey for access first and choose what the building needs: scaffold where there is heavy preparation and a lot of surface, mobile towers where the work moves, a MEWP where it is quick and reachable, rope access where erecting anything is disproportionate. Then we bundle every job that needs that access into one window, including items that are not urgent yet, because bringing work forward is cheaper than paying to reach it again. Access is quoted as its own line so you can see it and challenge it. The programme states when access goes up, what it releases, and when it comes down, so entrances, walkways and parking are not blocked longer than the work requires.
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.
- Access survey and written access strategy per elevation
- Access quoted as its own visible line, not buried in a square metre rate
- All access dependent work bundled into one erection: roof, gutters, high level steel, parapets, wall tops
- Scaffold erected by a qualified scaffold contractor where design and height require it
- Mobile towers, MEWP or rope access where they are the honest cheaper answer
- Written work at heights plan, method statement and risk assessment
- Public liability cover and a COIDA letter of good standing supplied with the quote
- Ground level protection, exclusion zones, signage and pedestrian routing
- High level waterproofing detail in Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber while access is standing
- A programme stating when access goes up, what it covers, and when it comes down
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
Site walk and access survey, elevation by elevation
- 2
Access strategy and sequencing plan
- 3
Written scope with access priced as its own line, and one fixed price for the whole job
- 4
Compliance pack supplied before mobilisation
- 5
Access erected, ground protection and exclusion zones set up
- 6
Every access dependent item completed in that window
- 7
Inspection at height with photographs before access is struck
- 8
Access removed, ground made good, snag list closed
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.
- Scaffold design, erection and inspection above certain heights is specialist work carried out by a qualified scaffold contractor as part of the programme.
- We do not carry out facade engineering, structural steel repair, glazing or roof sheet replacement.
- Waterproofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. No torch-on, no injection damp courses.
- High wind stops high level work, and access hire runs on calendar days. Weather allowance is stated in the programme rather than argued about afterwards.
- Access over public pavements, roads or neighbouring property may need permissions we cannot grant ourselves.
Not sure what your scaffolding & access 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
Scaffolding & Access 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.