Prices for the same tin vary between shops in Cape Town, and so does advice. Send one request with the surface, the size and the finish you want, and we pass it to paint shops and paint suppliers who supply Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Waterproof Paint in Cape Town
Parapets, flat roofs and cracked walls in Cape Town are often sealed with liquid waterproofing. Suppliers around Cape Town stock liquid rubber, fibre-reinforced coats and membrane rolls. Say what you are sealing, the area, whether the old coating is still sound and when the work should be done.
The main waterproof paint page explains the types, the checks and the costs in more detail.
Wall paint & coatings in Cape Town: local notes
Colour is part of the city, from the bright houses of the Bo-Kaap to softer greys and whites in the Southern Suburbs. Walls in Newlands, Claremont and Constantia stay damp under the mountain, so ask for a mould wash and an exterior paint with good mould resistance. On the Atlantic seaboard, salt air chalks paint and rusts steel quickly, so elastomeric wall coatings and metal primers matter more there.
Painting in Cape Town
Cape Town has a winter rainfall climate, and that sets the painting calendar: most exterior work is planned for the drier months between spring and autumn, when the south-easter blows instead. The building stock is very mixed. There are Victorian semis with corrugated roofs and timber sash windows in Woodstock and Observatory, the bright painted cottages of the Bo-Kaap, damp older homes under the mountain in the Southern Suburbs, and apartment blocks on the Atlantic seaboard where salt air eats into steel and paint. Body corporates, heritage homeowners, landlords between tenants and shop owners ask for painters, waterproofing and roof painting most, usually with a firm eye on winter leaks.
The requests we see from Cape Town usually come from:
- Homeowners: sealing parapets, a leaking flat stoep roof or cracked outside walls before winter rain
- Body corporates and estates: planned resealing of parapets and flat roofs across every block in the complex
- Landlords and sellers: stopping roof and parapet leaks before they stain ceilings and tenants complain
Local tips for Cape Town
Popular here: waterproofing flat roofs and parapets before winter, and exterior repaints in summer. Ask each painter or supplier about this: ask for the flat roof and parapet waterproofing to be done before the first winter front. Where they work from: painters and suppliers in Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland and Salt River.
Around Cape Town the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means sealing parapets, a leaking flat stoep roof or cracked outside walls before winter rain. Before you agree to anything: falls to drains; fix damp before coating. Keep in mind: victorian semis in Woodstock and Observatory, salty steel in Sea Point, damp in Newlands.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Requests from Cape Town go to painters and suppliers who already work in Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River and the rest of the area. Mention a security estate, a complex with set working hours or a steep site, because they change how the job is planned.