Painting Wizards paints houses, roofs, complexes and commercial property in Strand and across the Helderberg. 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 we find on Strand walls
Strand is beachfront apartment blocks and older seaside houses along the False Bay shore, with newer development inland. The property mix is a heavy sectional-title and holiday-let component alongside freestanding houses.
Beachfront blocks are body-corporate decisions and usually phased over several years, so a quote that sets out what can be done per phase is more useful than one lump figure.
What actually drives a repaint in Strand
Strand sits in the Helderberg, which gets around 700 mm a year and sun exposure and coastal salt at once, with the south-easter funnelling through the Hottentots Holland gap. The result is direct salt exposure off False Bay, worst on the beachfront blocks, plus the south-easter funnelling through the Hottentots Holland gap.
Across Helderberg the practical consequence is salt on the sea side and ultraviolet on the slopes, and a repaint interval of four to seven years depending which side of the pass you sit on. 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 we do on site
- 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 Strand 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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