Who you are hiring
MEKA is Kobus Smit.
Ten years in Paarl. Fifty-odd houses. He is still the foreman on every one of them.
He answers the phone, and he is on your site.
When you call the number on this website, Kobus answers it. He walks your house, he writes the quote, and then he is the foreman on the job — not a name on a letterhead who hands you to somebody else.
There is no call centre and no sales rep. If something goes wrong, you are talking to the person who can fix it.
Before Paarl
He built and ran a large garden services company up north, holding grounds-maintenance contracts with major industrial clients. That is where he learned the part most painters never do: how to run a crew, hold a schedule, and keep a client who has other options.
Ten years ago he brought that to Paarl and Wellington and started painting.
Ten years on
- 10 yearsWorking out of Paarl and Wellington
- 50+Full house repaints, inside and out
- HundredsOf smaller jobs, rooms and repairs
- A crew of 6Most of them with him for years
Alongside private homes he works steadily for property agencies and for body corporates — the kind of client who stops calling the moment a job runs late or a site is left a mess, and who has kept calling.
Why he works the way he does
Ask him what is wrong with his trade and the answer is four words:
“They just try to make money and leave.”
That is the whole reason for the standard on this website. Two full coats as a minimum. The preparation done properly before a tin of topcoat is opened. And a wall is not finished because the clock says so — it is finished when Kobus is satisfied with it.
Off the site
He is about as relaxed as a man in this trade gets. Most weekends he is at his twelve-year-old daughter's sport, or working on his own and the family's houses.
What he will not do
- Quote a price without walking the property first.
- Put a crew on your house that you have not met.
- Put one coat on and call it a repaint.
- Paint over damp and hope it holds until the guarantee runs out.
- Leave a site at the end of a day without sweeping it.
- Disappear for three days without telling you why.
The standard
Four promises. Hold him to them.
Two full coats
Not one coat and a touch-up. The tins stay on site so you can count them yourself.
The same foreman
First day to last. You will not meet a new team halfway through your house.
A clean site, daily
Drop sheets down, furniture covered, and the site swept before the bakkie leaves.
The day we said
If something changes, you hear it from us first, not when the team does not arrive.
Want him to come and look?
No charge, no obligation, and a written quote within two working days.