Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Riverside and across greater Cape Town. 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.
Painting an older or newer property in Riverside
This is a small residential pocket of mostly modern freestanding housing. The property mix is freestanding houses on regular stands.
On a smaller area it is worth asking for the preparation to be itemised separately, because on a modest job that is where most of the labour actually goes.
Why paint fails in Riverside
Riverside sits in greater Cape Town, which gets around 550 mm a year and dry summers and wet winters. The result is a mix of summer ultraviolet exposure and winter moisture typical of the greater Cape Town area.
Across greater Cape Town the practical consequence is a mix of ultraviolet fade and winter moisture, and a repaint interval of five to seven years on a 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 a Riverside job is put together
- 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 Riverside 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.
Other areas close by
See painters in greater Cape Town for every area we cover in this part of the Western Cape.