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.
Warehouses, factories & workshops, Northern Suburbs
The roof is rusting, the shed is an oven, and production cannot stop.
Industrial buildings do not get repainted because they look tired. They get done when the roof starts dripping on stock, when the steel starts eating itself, or when nobody can work in there after eleven in the morning. All three are fixable without shutting the line down.
- 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 are the last thing on a maintenance budget and the first thing to fail. Galvanised and IBR sheeting goes chalky, then the coating lets go, then rust starts at every screw and lap. Fibre-cement and asbestos-cement sheeting goes porous and cracks off the bolt holes. Dark, uncoated roofs turn a workshop into an oven so productivity drops every summer afternoon. And the quotes that come back are either a full re-sheet with a number nobody will sign, or a cheap man with a spray gun who puts one thin coat over unwashed, unprimed, rusting steel and is gone before the first winter proves it.
Our approach
We treat an industrial roof as a system, not a colour. On non-asbestos metal roofs: wash, degrease, treat the rust back to sound metal, prime with the correct primer for that substrate, reinforce every lap, screw, ridge and crack, then build up Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber to specified thickness across the whole roof. That stops the leaks, seals the fasteners, and a light finish reflects a large part of the heat the old sheeting was radiating into the building. Walls, structural steel, columns, doors and line marking follow the same discipline: written scope, correct primer, correct number of coats, and shifts programmed around production.
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.
- Roof and building survey with photographs of every leak, rust site and failed coating
- Substrate identification: galvanised, painted metal, rusted metal, fibre-cement or asbestos-cement
- Measured area schedule and a written scope stating primer, coats and dry film thickness
- One fixed price for the whole job
- High-pressure clean on non-asbestos substrates and degrease, with rust treated back to sound metal
- Correct primer for the substrate, including Bonding Liquid Super+ on sheeting
- Reinforcement at every screw, lap, ridge, valley, flashing and crack
- Three-coat Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber build on roof areas
- Wall, structural steel, column, roller door and gutter coating where included
- Programme worked around production, deliveries and shift patterns
- 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
9 steps from enquiry to handover.
- 1
Enquiry from the owner, factory manager or facilities manager
- 2
Roof and building survey, leak diagnosis and substrate identification
- 3
Measure, photographic condition report and written scope
- 4
One fixed price for the whole job
- 5
Programme agreed around production, deliveries and shifts
- 6
Clean, degrease and rust treatment
- 7
Priming and detail reinforcement
- 8
Three-coat liquid rubber build on roofs, two full coats on walls and steel
- 9
Drainage check, walk-through, handover and guarantee 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.
- Re-sheeting, purlin replacement, structural steel repair and rotten timber are not coating work. Where they are needed we say so before we quote a coating that cannot hold.
- Asbestos-cement sheeting is sealed in place. We do not remove, cut, drill or dispose of asbestos.
- Waterproofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. No torch-on.
- Roof work needs safe access, and on some buildings that means fall arrest and a walkway plan. It is quoted, not improvised.
- Qualifying Rubber Sealant® systems may carry a 13-year manufacturer product guarantee, subject to manufacturer inspection, specification, application, certification and maintenance conditions.
- Any asbestos-cement area is excluded from ordinary cleaning and preparation methods. South African asbestos rules prohibit cleaning or preparing asbestos-cement surfaces.
Not sure what your warehouse & light industrial 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
Warehouse & Light Industrial: 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.
Durbanville and surrounds
Get a fixed price for your warehouse & light industrial.
Three ways to start, all of them quick. Send a WhatsApp, tap to call, or leave your details and we come back with a written scope and one fixed price for the whole job.
WhatsApp Leroy now Call 079 435 6308
Monday–Friday 08:00–17:00
What happens after you send it
We reply, ask the few questions that matter, then book a proper look at the property. You get a written scope, one fixed price for the whole job, and a straight answer on what we will not do.
One-year workmanship guarantee on qualifying Williams & Co work.
Takes about 20 seconds