Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Athlone and across the Cape Flats. Send the form on this page with what needs doing and we will come out, measure it and put a written price in front of you — itemised, so the preparation and the paint system are separate lines rather than one number.
The building stock in Athlone
Athlone is established mid-century plastered brick housing across Silvertown, Bridgetown and Kewtown, much of it single storey and extended over the years. The property mix is freestanding and semi-detached houses, some flats, and commercial along Klipfontein Road.
There is usually crack repair and plaster patching to price here before any topcoat, and that preparation is the part of the quote worth comparing between contractors.
The conditions a coating faces in Athlone
Athlone sits in the Cape Flats, which gets around 550 mm a year and full sun with almost no mature tree cover. The result is full sun with almost no mature tree cover, plus wind-blown sand off the Flats abrading the weather side.
Across Cape Flats the practical consequence is ultraviolet fade plus wind-blown sand on the weather side, and a repaint interval of five to seven years on a prepared exterior. A coating put on over a failing one fails at the rate of the layer underneath it, not at its own — which is why the preparation, not the paint, usually decides how long the job lasts.
How the job runs
- Preparation — washing down, opening and filling cracks, sanding back chalked and failing paint, and priming bare or porous areas.
- Exterior — walls, trims, gutters, fascias and barge boards, with boundary walls and outbuildings measured as their own lines.
- Interior — walls, ceilings, skirtings, architraves and doors, staged room by room so an occupied house stays liveable.
- Roof — tile, corrugated and IBR. A leaking roof is fixed before it is painted, not after.
- Complexes and commercial — phased around residents or trading hours.
Two coats over a prepared surface is standard. As a working figure, a litre of exterior acrylic covers roughly 6 to 8 square metres per coat on smooth plaster and 4 to 5 on rough or porous work, so a wall that has never been sealed drinks noticeably more than one that has. Between coats we allow 4 to 6 hours in summer and longer in winter, and a full cure takes about 7 days before the surface is properly hard.
What a quote covers
Painting is priced on area, surface condition and the number of coats, so nobody can give you an honest Athlone figure over the phone without seeing the surfaces.
The quote states the square metres measured, the preparation included, the paint system specified and the number of coats. Nothing is quoted as a single lump sum, and nothing is quoted over the phone without seeing the surfaces.
To start, we need the suburb, whether the work is inside, outside, the roof or a combination, roughly how big the property is, and what condition the surfaces are in — sound paint, flaking, damp, or bare plaster.
Around Athlone
See painters in Cape Flats for every area we cover in this part of the Western Cape.