Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Llandudno 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.
The building stock in Llandudno
Llandudno is a small, entirely residential enclave of modern homes on a steep granite slope above the beach. The property mix is freestanding homes only, most on steep, awkward sites.
There is no commercial or through traffic here, so access and parking for a crew have to be arranged with the property rather than assumed.
What actually drives a repaint in Llandudno
Llandudno 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 full Atlantic exposure with no shelter, salt and wind on every elevation.
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 Llandudno 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.
How the price is worked out
Painting is priced on area, surface condition and the number of coats, so nobody can give you an honest Llandudno 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 Camps Bay · Painters Clifton · Painters Green Point · Painters Hout Bay
See painters in Atlantic Seaboard for every area we cover in this part of the Western Cape.