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- HOA colour matching handled, including a sample panel on your own wall before we start
- Hairline shrinkage cracking treated with flexible crack-bridging systems, not just filler
- Wind-driven rain on exposed south-west elevations allowed for in the specification
Painting a House in Burgundy Estate
Burgundy Estate is a comparatively young suburb, built from the early 2000s onward, and the issues here are the opposite of the older northern suburbs. There is no lime plaster and very little rising damp. What there is instead is movement.
Newer cement plaster shrinks as it cures, and structures settle for years after they are finished. The result is fine hairline cracking, usually appearing above and below window openings, at the corners of openings, and where an added-on garage or room meets the original structure. These cracks are almost always cosmetic rather than structural, but they matter for painting because a rigid coating simply cracks again along the same line. Filling them with a hard filler and painting over with standard acrylic gives you a wall that looks perfect for one season.
The correct approach is a flexible crack-bridging system that can accommodate a small amount of continued movement. It costs more per square metre than ordinary wall paint and it is the difference between a repaint that holds for six years and one that shows the same crack pattern by the following winter.
What It Costs to Paint a House in Burgundy Estate
These are the ranges we actually quote in Burgundy Estate. They assume proper preparation and two full coats. Anything unusual in scope is quoted separately after we have seen the property. Use them to sanity-check any quote you receive.
| Work | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Interior, full house | R13,000 - R25,000 |
| Exterior, single storey | R15,000 - R29,000 |
| Exterior, double storey | R27,000 - R50,000 |
| Crack-bridging coating over hairline cracking, per m² | R95 - R170 |
| Routing out and filling larger cracks, per running metre | R120 - R280 |
| Concrete tile roof | R13,000 - R26,000 |
| HOA colour match and on-wall sample panel | R850 - R2,200 |
| Boundary wall, both sides, per m² | R50 - R90 |
Crack-bridging is priced per square metre of affected elevation, not per crack. Usually only one or two elevations need it, which is why we assess each face of the house separately.
The Best Time of Year to Paint in Burgundy Estate
October to April, with wind as the main scheduling constraint. Burgundy Estate sits on comparatively open ground near the N7 with little natural shelter, so the summer south-easter arrives with real force and there is nothing to break it. That rules out spray application on many afternoons between November and February, and it means dust gets driven onto wet paint on exposed elevations.
The pattern that works is early starts. Mornings are usually calm, the wind builds through the day, and a crew that starts at seven gets the exposed south-west face done before conditions deteriorate. Anyone planning to work standard nine-to-five hours on your windward elevation in January has not thought about it.
There is also an argument for waiting on crack repairs. If your home is less than about five years old, plaster is still curing and the structure still settling. Doing a full crack-bridging repaint at year three often means doing it again at year six. Waiting until the movement has largely stabilised gives you a much better return on the more expensive coating.
Which Paint to Use in Burgundy Estate
Product choice should follow the surface and the exposure, not the brand on the tin. This is what we specify on Burgundy Estate homes and why.
| Surface | What we specify and why |
|---|---|
| Elevations with hairline cracking | A flexible, crack-bridging exterior coating. These have enough elongation to move with the wall rather than splitting along the old crack line. Standard acrylic over hard filler does not. |
| Larger or wider cracks | Route out to a V-profile, fill with a flexible sealant or a suitable crack filler, allow to cure, then apply the bridging coat over the top. Skipping the routing step means the filler has nothing to key into. |
| Sound elevations without cracking | Standard exterior acrylic such as Dulux Weathershield. There is no reason to apply an expensive bridging system to a face that is not cracking. |
| Exposed south-west elevation | This face takes the wind-driven rain. Two full coats and particular attention to sealing around window frames and any penetrations. |
| Colour | Must fall within the homeowners association palette. We obtain the approved reference and put a sample panel on your wall, because estate palettes read very differently at full scale and in direct sun. |
| Concrete tile roof | Sealer coat then two coats of roof paint. Roof colour is usually also prescribed by the HOA, so confirm before ordering. |
What Goes Wrong on Burgundy Estate Homes
- Hairline cracks filled with rigid filler and painted with standard acrylic, so the same crack pattern reappears within a season
- Cracks painted over without routing out first, leaving the filler with nothing to key into
- Colours chosen from a fan deck instead of the HOA palette, then rejected after the work is done
- Exposed south-west elevations painted in windy conditions, trapping driven dust in the wet film
- Full crack-bridging systems applied to very new homes that are still settling, then needing redoing a few years later
- Sealant around window frames on the windward face left unrenewed, letting driven rain behind the coating
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