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.
High level work, Cape Town & Durbanville
The riskiest part of your repaint has nothing to do with paint.
The moment a person leaves the ground on your property, the questions change. Who planned the access, who is insured, who is trained, and what happens to you if it goes wrong. That is the part of a quote most buildings never check.
- 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
High level painting is where the cheap quote gets dangerous rather than just disappointing. A contractor arrives with extension ladders for a job that needs a tower or a scaffold, works off a parapet with no edge protection, has no work at heights plan, no fall arrest training, no public liability cover that would survive a claim, and no COIDA letter of good standing. Nothing goes wrong for a while, and then one day it does, on your site, and the building owner discovers exactly how much of that risk landed with them. The commercial version of the same problem is quieter: access gets under-specified to keep the number low, so the top two metres of every elevation get rushed off a ladder, the details at parapet level get skimped, and the elevation fails first at exactly the place nobody can inspect.
Our approach
We plan access before we price the work, and we price it as its own line so it can be checked. Scaffold, mobile tower, MEWP or rope access is chosen for the building rather than for the invoice, and everything that needs the same access is bundled into one erection so you do not pay to reach the same wall twice. On site we work to a written work at heights plan with trained operatives, edge protection, exclusion zones below, and a health and safety file appropriate to the work. Public liability cover and a COIDA letter of good standing come with the quote, not after a request. And the parapet, coping, flashing and gutter detail that only exists at height is done properly, because that is where the elevation actually fails.
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 a written access strategy before pricing
- Access priced as its own line, with all access dependent work bundled into one erection
- Written work at heights plan, method statement and risk assessment
- Trained operatives, fall protection, edge protection and exclusion zones below
- Health and safety file appropriate to the work and the site
- Public liability cover and a COIDA letter of good standing supplied with the quote
- High level crack repair, joint sealing and rust treatment while access is standing
- Parapet, coping, flashing, box gutter and penetration detailing in Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber
- Two full coats over the specified primer at every level, not just the reachable ones
- Photographic record of high level work you cannot inspect from the ground
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
- 2
Access strategy chosen for the building: scaffold, tower, MEWP or rope access
- 3
Written scope, work at heights plan and one fixed price for the whole job
- 4
Compliance pack supplied: public liability, COIDA, method statement, risk assessment
- 5
Access erected once, with all access dependent work scheduled into that window
- 6
High level water related work first, then repairs, then decoration
- 7
Photographic progress at every level
- 8
Inspection, snag list and handover with the high level photographic record
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.
- We do not carry out structural steel repair, roof sheet replacement, glazing or facade engineering. Those need the right trade.
- Waterproofing is Rubber Sealant Liquid Rubber only. No torch-on, no injection damp courses.
- We do not remove, cut, break, drill or dispose of asbestos at height or at ground level.
- High wind stops work at height. Weather days are in the programme rather than in an argument later.
- Scaffold design and erection above certain heights is specialist work carried out by a qualified scaffold contractor as part of the programme.
Not sure what your working at heights painting & waterproofing 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
Working at Heights Painting & Waterproofing: 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.