Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Philadelphia and across the Swartland and West Coast towns. 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.
What Philadelphia property is like to paint
Philadelphia is a small Swartland village of older cottages and farm buildings surrounded by working agricultural land. The property mix is village cottages, farmhouses and agricultural outbuildings.
Properties out here have long boundary walls and multiple outbuildings, all of which need measuring rather than estimating, and the travel makes grouping work sensible.
The conditions a coating faces in Philadelphia
Philadelphia sits in the Swartland and West Coast towns, which gets around 400 mm a year and hot dry days and cold nights, a wide daily swing. The result is hot dry days and cold nights – a wide daily temperature swing that opens plaster cracks faster than coastal stock ever sees.
Across Swartland and West Coast towns the practical consequence is thermal movement opening plaster cracks faster than the coating can bridge them, and a repaint interval of five to seven years with a flexible system. 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 Philadelphia job is put together
- Crack repair and bridging — heat movement opens plaster, and a rigid coating cracks again along the same line.
- Flexible exterior systems chosen for movement rather than for the lowest price per litre.
- Breathable systems on lime plaster where the building is old enough to need them — which in this part of the province is often.
- Exterior — walls, trims, gutters, fascias, boundary walls and outbuildings, all measured rather than estimated.
- Interior — walls, ceilings, skirtings and joinery.
- Roof — tile, corrugated and IBR, cleaned and treated first.
Two coats over a prepared surface is standard. A litre covers roughly 6 to 8 square metres per coat on smooth plaster and 4 to 5 on rough or porous work. Inland the working window is the real constraint: a wall in direct afternoon sun in midsummer is too hot to take paint properly, so elevations are worked in the order the sun leaves them. Between coats 4 to 6 hours is usually enough in this heat, 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 Philadelphia figure over the phone without seeing the surfaces.
The quote states the square metres measured, the crack repair and preparation included, the system specified and the number of coats. Boundary walls and outbuildings are measured and listed separately — on stands this size they are often a larger area than the house.
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.
Where else we work nearby
See painters in Swartland and West Coast towns for every area we cover in this part of the Western Cape.