Region
Home inspections in the Cape Town
Cape Town has almost every kind of housing stock in the country, from Victorian semis in Woodstock to units handed over last month in Century City. What goes wrong is very different in each, and so is what we spend the most time on. The Helderberg — Strand, Somerset West and Gordon’s Bay — is part of the same metro and has its own page.
Areas in the Cape Town
City Bowl
Older stock on steep ground. Rising damp in solid brick walls with no damp-proof course, retaining walls doing more work than they were built for, and roof valleys that fail under Cape winter rain.
Inspections in City Bowl →Atlantic Seaboard
Salt air and wind-driven rain. Corroded balustrades and window frames, spalling concrete on balcony edges where the reinforcing has rusted, and water driven horizontally through window seals that would be fine anywhere inland.
Inspections in Atlantic Seaboard →Southern Suburbs
Claremont, Newlands, Rondebosch and Kenilworth carry a lot of pre-1960 housing. Damp is the recurring theme — Newlands is one of the wettest spots in the city. Add old galvanised plumbing, original wiring behind newer boards, and oak roots lifting paving and drains.
Inspections in Southern Suburbs →Northern Suburbs
Durbanville, Bellville, Brackenfell and Kraaifontein — a lot of newer development and estate housing. Snag-list work dominates: finishes, shower falls, and workmanship. Some areas sit on clay soils that move seasonally and crack walls.
Inspections in Northern Suburbs →Southern Peninsula
Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay, Simon’s Town, Noordhoek. Coastal exposure plus steep sites. Timber decks and pergolas, retaining structures, sand-driven wear, and holiday homes that have been standing empty and unventilated for months.
Inspections in Southern Peninsula →Blaauwberg & Table View
The wind is the story. Wind-driven rain through window and door seals, roof sheeting and tile lifting, and salt corrosion further inland than people expect. Much of the stock is 1990s onward, so the issues are workmanship rather than age.
Inspections in Blaauwberg & Table View →Cape Flats
Mitchells Plain, Athlone, Grassy Park and surrounds. Sandy soils and a high water table in places, so drainage and rising damp matter. Also a lot of owner-built additions and enclosed stoeps where the structural and electrical work was never signed off.
Inspections in Cape Flats →Century City & Milnerton
Sectional title and newer development. Snag lists, balcony waterproofing, and the question of what is your responsibility versus the body corporate’s — which the inspection report can help settle.
Inspections in Century City & Milnerton →Sampling to International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants procedures, laboratory analysed
Certified Professional Inspector, International Association of Certified Home Inspectors
Twenty years of active membership
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