Roof Painting for Bellville Homes, Flats and Office Blocks

Walk through Boston, Welgemoed or Oakdale and many 1960s to 1980s houses show the same tired roofline: concrete tiles gone chalky and grey, ridge mortar breaking loose and lichen creeping over the shaded slope. In the CBD and around Tyger Valley, low-pitch metal roofs on office blocks rust at the fixings and laps long before anyone climbs up to look.

NPC Painters & Renovators are the roof painters Bellville property owners call for both kinds of job. Working from Brackenfell, a short drive away, we clean, repair and recoat tiled and metal roofs by airless spray, whether it is one family home or a sectional-title block run by a managing agent.

What we usually find on Bellville roofs

Much of the suburb’s housing stock is on its second or third roof coating, and older coats were often brushed thinly over dirt. Before we price anything, a consultant gets onto the roof and records what is really there, including the jobs that need doing before paint goes on. Many face brick and plaster homes from that era also have metal carports and patio covers that are worth coating in the same visit, so the whole roofline weathers evenly.

• Concrete tile roofs with failed paint, moss and loose ridge capping
• IBR and corrugated sheeting on shops and offices along the Voortrekker Road corridor
• Flat and low-pitch roofs on student accommodation near UWC and CPUT Bellville
• Cracked tiles and slipped flashings repaired ahead of coating
• Heat-reflective coatings for top-floor flats and offices that bake in summer

Roof painting that Bellville body corporates can plan around

Sectional-title schemes need a contractor whose paperwork stands up at a trustee meeting. NPC is registered with NAMA, the BIBC and FEM, so managing agents get compliant crews and a written specification they can circulate to owners. On larger complexes, your preferred paint supplier can draw up that specification and inspect the work at agreed stages.

Big, uniform roof areas on office blocks and warehouses suit airless spray particularly well. Compared with rollers it can cut project time on large surfaces by up to 80%, which means fewer days of access equipment on site and less disruption for the people working underneath. Student houses and flats near the campuses can be scheduled for the university holidays, when fewer residents are coming and going.