Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Durbanville and across the Northern Suburbs. 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 Durbanville
Durbanville runs from established 1970s and 1980s face-brick and plaster homes around the old village out to newer plastered developments in Vierlanden, Sonstraal Heights and Eversdal. The property mix is mostly freestanding houses on generous stands, with a growing share of security-estate and cluster housing.
Stands here are large, so boundary walls and outbuildings are often a third of the measured area – they need pricing as separate lines rather than being absorbed into a house figure.
The conditions a coating faces in Durbanville
Durbanville sits in the Northern Suburbs, which gets around 500 mm a year and hot, dry summers with very little cloud cover. The result is long dry inland summers, which chalk and fade a coating on the north and west walls years before anything actually fails.
Across Northern Suburbs the practical consequence is ultraviolet chalking on north- and west-facing walls, and a repaint interval of six to eight years on a correctly 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 Durbanville 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.
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