Commercial Painting
Commercial building | phased repaint
A commercial facade repainted in phases so the tenants could keep trading throughout the work.
Wine farms & estates, Durbanville valley
A farm is not a house with more walls.
Old lime plaster that has to breathe. A cellar that cannot stop working. Werf buildings, staff housing, sheds, and a tasting room with bookings every weekend. A contractor who treats it like a big repaint gets one of those things wrong, and it is usually the walls.
- 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
Farm buildings in the Durbanville valley fail in ways suburban houses do not. The oldest walls are thick, solid and built without a damp course, so they have always dealt with moisture by letting it move through and evaporate. Coat them in a modern plastic film and the water cannot leave, so it pushes the paint off in blisters, carries salts to the surface, and softens the plaster behind it. Then there is the exposure: these buildings sit open to the wind with no shelter, and the west and south elevations take driven rain year after year. The outbuilding roofs are usually past their bolt washers. The cellar has a working floor, tanks and a harvest date that does not negotiate. And on an estate that hosts tastings, weddings or functions, scaffolding in front of the entrance on a Saturday is a real cost, not an inconvenience. Most quotes price square metres and ignore every one of those facts.
Our approach
We survey the whole property and price it as a programme rather than one job. Old solid walls get a breathable system, so moisture can still leave and the coating stays on. Modern block and plaster gets the standard Plascon exterior build over the right primer. Where water is the real story, and on a farm it usually is at parapets, box gutters, flat roofs over additions and around cellar door thresholds, it is quoted as its own line using Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber, not hidden inside a paint rate. Any asbestos-cement roofs on the property stay out of our scope and go to a contractor registered for that work. Then we phase it: which buildings before harvest, which between harvest and the wet, and which weekends stay clear because you have bookings. One fixed price for the whole programme, in writing, with each phase separately priced so you can spread it across financial years.
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.
- Full property survey: homestead, werf buildings, cellar exterior, guest units, staff housing, sheds
- Photographic condition report with the water path written down for every damp and leak problem
- A breathable specification on old solid lime plastered walls, stated in writing
- Written scope per building: preparation, primer, product, number of coats and colours
- Waterproofing itemised separately using Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber
- Non-asbestos outbuilding roofs coated with the full Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber system
- Roof, gutter, downpipe, timber and steelwork attention where it forms part of the scope
- A programme phased around harvest, tastings, functions and the wet season
- One fixed price for the whole programme, with each phase priced on its own
- One named site contact, and staff briefed on where they may and may not go
- Handover pack with photographs, product 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, farm manager or estate manager
- 2
Walk the property with whoever knows its history and its diary
- 3
Measure every building, photograph every problem, identify which walls are solid and old
- 4
Written scope and one fixed price for the whole programme, phase by phase
- 5
Programme agreed around harvest, functions and the wet season
- 6
Preparation, repair, priming and coating, building by building
- 7
Waterproofing applied as its own scope where it was quoted
- 8
Walk through per phase, snag list closed before we move on
- 9
Final handover, photographs 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.
- Old solid walls need a breathable system. Where an owner insists on a conventional film build on lime plaster, we put our objection in writing before we start.
- Waterproofing and damp proofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. We do not sell or install torch-on, and we do not do injection damp courses.
- Asbestos-cement roofs are outside our scope entirely: no inspection, preparation, coating, sealing, removal or disposal. They go to a contractor registered with the Department of Employment and Labour.
- Heritage approvals, structural repairs, replastering in lime, thatch, electrical and stonework are their own trades. We identify them at survey rather than paint over them.
- Cellar interiors during harvest and food safe environments have their own constraints. We work to yours or we work around the date.
- Rain, wind and the wet season affect the programme. Weather days are built in rather than pretended away.
- 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 wine farm & estate 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
Wine Farm & Estate Painting: questions we hear
Budgeting
What decides the scope of your quote?
Preparation, access, repairs and the specified coating all affect the job. We inspect first, then quote one fixed price for the agreed scope.
Related work
Completed commercial work.
Real Williams & Co commercial project photographs. More in the projects gallery.
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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.
- Commercial painting in DurbanvilleOffices, warehouses, complexes and shops, scoped in writing and painted around your trading hours.
Durbanville, service by service
- Roof waterproofing in Durbanville
- Damp proofing in Durbanville
- Exterior painting in Durbanville
- Interior painting in Durbanville
- Asbestos roofs explained 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.
- Retail & shopping centre paintingMalls and shopfronts painted around trading hours.
- Office interior paintingOccupied offices repainted floor by floor, after hours.
- White boxing & make-good paintingGet a commercial unit lettable again, fast.
- Warehouse & industrial coatingRusted metal roofs sealed, hot workshops cooled.
- For property managers & agentsWritten scopes, fixed prices, photographs for the file.
- Painting maintenance programmesScheduled cycles for portfolios and property companies.
- Wine farm & estate paintingOld lime plaster, gables and cellars, handled properly.
Sectors we work in
- Wine cellar paintingWashdown, condensation and taint risk, specified properly.
- Schools, churches & clinicsProgrammed into holidays, services and quiet clinic days.
- Guest houses & restaurantsRoom by room, overnight, never a lost sitting.
- Dealerships & showroomsBrand colour standards, after hours, open in the morning.
- Self-storage, gyms & logisticsMetal roofs and big elevations, water and rust first.
- Planned maintenance cyclesBudget once, inspect yearly, never repaint in a panic.
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 roofs explainedSealing in place versus stripping, and who may do the work.
- Waterproofing & damp proofingLiquid rubber on roofs, walls and rising damp.
Durbanville and surrounds
Get a fixed price for your wine farm & estate painting.
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.
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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.
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