Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Sea Point 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 Sea Point
Sea Point is dominated by apartment blocks, many from the 1960s and 1970s, alongside older houses and semis on the upper slopes. The property mix is overwhelmingly sectional title – body-corporate work is the norm here rather than the exception.
High-rise exteriors mean rope access or scaffolding, which is a real cost line and has to be in the quote rather than discovered later.
Why paint fails in Sea Point
Sea Point 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 salt-laden air off the Atlantic driven into the building by the summer south-easter, which is the harshest exposure in the metro.
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 Sea Point 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.
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 Sea Point 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.
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