Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Brooklyn and across Blaauwberg and the West Coast. 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 Brooklyn
Brooklyn is compact older housing near Ysterplaat, much of it single-storey plastered brick from the mid-century. The property mix is freestanding and semi-detached houses on small stands.
The combination of salt and industrial film means washing down is a genuine preparation step here, not a formality.
Why Brooklyn exteriors need repainting when they do
Brooklyn sits in Blaauwberg and the West Coast, which gets around 300 mm a year – among the driest in the metro and near-constant wind off an exposed, sandy coastline. The result is salt off Table Bay combined with airborne deposit from the adjacent industrial and harbour areas.
Across Blaauwberg and the West Coast the practical consequence is wind-driven sand abrading the coating while salt attacks it, and a repaint interval of four to six years on a sea-facing wall. 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.
What we do on site
- Washing down and salt removal — salt left on a wall goes straight under the new coating and lifts it, so a fresh-water wash comes before anything else.
- Exterior walls — sea-facing elevations specified in a coastal-grade system, sheltered elevations often in a standard one. Pricing both the same is how a quote ends up wrong.
- Timber and metal — window frames, balustrades, barge boards and railings, which corrode and rot near the water years before the walls need attention.
- Roof — cleaned, treated for lichen, and rust-treated on metal before coating.
- Interior — walls, ceilings, skirtings and joinery, staged room by room.
- Body corporate — phased per block and quoted per element for trustees.
Two coats over a properly prepared surface is standard, and near the water the preparation is most of the job. 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. Salt-exposed walls usually take a third coat on the seaward side, and a cheaper system here is a false economy that shows within two summers. Between coats we allow 4 to 6 hours in summer, and a full cure takes about 7 days.
What you get in the quote
Painting is priced on area, surface condition and the number of coats, so nobody can give you an honest Brooklyn figure over the phone without seeing the surfaces.
Exposure changes the price here, so a coastal quote is measured elevation by elevation rather than as one figure for the building. It states the square metres measured, which walls are specified in a coastal system and which are not, the preparation included and the number of coats.
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.
Other areas close by
Painters Bloubergstrand · Painters Milnerton · Painters Phoenix · Painters Table View
See painters in Blaauwberg and the West Coast for every area we cover in this part of the Western Cape.