Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Camps Bay and across the Atlantic Seaboard. 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.
How Camps Bay property behaves
Camps Bay is predominantly modern – large contemporary homes with extensive glazing, rendered walls, steel and off-shutter concrete. The property mix is large freestanding houses and luxury apartments, many on steep sites.
Steep sites mean access is the constraint – scaffolding on a sloped stand costs more and takes longer to erect than the painting itself sometimes does.
The conditions a coating faces in Camps Bay
Camps Bay sits in the Atlantic Seaboard, which gets around 550 mm a year and a hard summer south-easter carrying salt off the water. The result is the most direct salt and wind exposure on the peninsula, with the south-easter funnelling hard over Kloof Nek in summer.
Across Atlantic Seaboard the practical consequence is salt attack and wind abrasion on west- and south-facing walls, and a repaint interval of three to five years on an exposed sea-facing elevation. 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 a Camps Bay job is put together
- 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 Camps Bay 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.
Nearby areas we cover
Painters Clifton · Painters Green Point · Painters Hout Bay · Painters Llandudno
See painters in Atlantic Seaboard for every area we cover in this part of the Western Cape.