Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Lakeside and across the South Peninsula. 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 Lakeside
Lakeside is compact housing between the mountain and Zandvlei – mid-century single-storey homes, many extended, on modest stands. The property mix is freestanding houses and semis, plus some newer townhouse infill.
Properties backing onto the vlei carry moisture from the ground as well as the air, so rising damp needs ruling out before an exterior is quoted.
Why paint fails in Lakeside
Lakeside sits in the South Peninsula, which gets around 800 mm a year on the False Bay side and wet winters and high humidity most of the year. The result is high humidity off the vlei and the bay, with damp at low level a common finding.
Across South Peninsula the practical consequence is mould and mildew growth, and rot where timber meets plaster, and a repaint interval of five to seven years, less on external timber. 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 the work involves
- 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.
How we price a Lakeside job
Painting is priced on area, surface condition and the number of coats, so nobody can give you an honest Lakeside 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 Fish Hoek · Painters Muizenberg · Painters Scarborough
See painters in South Peninsula for every area we cover in this part of the Western Cape.