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• Preparation itemised separately, because on these houses it is most of the job

Painting Older Tamboerskloof Homes

Tamboerskloof is largely older solid-wall housing on steep streets, and the single most important thing about painting these homes is that the walls need to breathe. Many were built without a damp course and manage moisture by letting it evaporate outwards through soft lime-based plaster. Seal that with a modern waterproof coating and the moisture has nowhere to go but sideways and back into the wall - and the plaster eventually detaches and comes off.

That is why preparation dominates the cost here. On a house of this age, prep is commonly forty to sixty percent of the total: crack repair, removing failed previous coatings, treating damp, making good plaster. The painting itself is comparatively quick. A quote where preparation is one line with no method described is the one to look at hardest.

The mature trees through these streets are the other factor. They cast permanent shade on south-facing walls, which stay damp and grow algae. That is a wash-and-treat problem before it is a paint problem, and skipping the biocidal wash means the algae simply grows back through the new coating.

Tamboerskloof Painting Costs

Broken out so the preparation is visible. On an older home these are the lines that actually determine whether the job lasts.

On a house of this age, preparation typically runs forty to sixty percent of the total. If two quotes are far apart, compare the preparation scope rather than the headline figure - that is almost always where the difference sits.

When to Paint in Tamboerskloof

November to March for exteriors. Tamboerskloof is more sheltered from wind than the seaboard suburbs and gets hotter in summer, so the constraint is drying the walls out rather than fighting the weather.

South-facing walls under tree cover are the exception. They hold moisture long after the rest of the house has dried and often are not properly ready until December. Leave those elevations for January or February and do the sunny sides first - working through the house in that order usually shortens the overall job.

Damp treatment belongs in autumn. Do it in March or April, let it stand through the wet season, and repaint in spring once you have seen whether the wall genuinely stayed dry. Treating and painting in the same week means you find out the treatment failed only after you have paid for the decoration twice.

Why Breathable Paint Matters on These Walls

• Use a mineral, silicate or high-permeability acrylic on solid old walls. The property that matters is vapour permeability. Some expensive premium coatings are precisely the wrong product here.
• Do not use waterproofing membranes or high-build elastomerics on lime-plastered walls. They are excellent products in the right place and this is not it - they trap moisture and blow the plaster off in sheets.
• Patch with a lime-compatible mix, not straight cement. A hard cement patch in a soft wall just moves the cracking to its edges and does it within a year.
• Biocidal wash before painting shaded walls, not just a pressure rinse. Pressure alone leaves the spores and the algae returns through the new film.
• Interiors: matt or low-sheen on old uneven walls. A silk finish under a raking light shows every hollow and every old repair.
• Timber joinery: water-based enamel over a bonding primer, with the sash mechanism checked while the window is apart.

Reading a Tamboerskloof Quote

• Is preparation itemised, or is it one line saying prepare surfaces? On these houses that line is most of your money.
• Does the quote name a breathable product, or just a brand and a colour?
• Has the damp been diagnosed, or assumed? Rising, penetrating and condensation damp look similar and need different fixes.
• Is crack repair priced per square metre, with a stated method? Filler smeared over a moving crack reappears in one season.
• Does it cover the biocidal wash on shaded elevations as a separate item?
• What is excluded? On older homes the exclusions list tells you more than the inclusions.

Services We Cover in Tamboerskloof

• Exterior painting
• Damp proofing
• Plaster repairs
• Interior painting
• Ceiling painting
• Wood staining and sealing

Tamboerskloof Painting Questions

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