Magnate Projects Cape Town

I had a bad experience contracting Magnate Organization to build my house in simons town Capetown. Kelvin the owner is crooked. I signed a contract to build my house. He started building until he received the last payment then he closed the project and left the house half finished. Please I don't recommend him to give him a job. Be carrefull because he looks a good guy until he receive money

I very disappointed with paint job Magnate Projects did at my house.I am only writing this review to warn anyone who is interested in acquiring their services.We had numerous companies quote for the job but we ended up choosing Magnate because of the punctuality and the great reviews.They did a few things which includes a small undersink plumbing fix, installed two ventilators, installed two sanitary fittings, installed splashback tiling in the bathroom and did quite a bit of painting. We are happy with everything except the paint job they did at our house.It is clear that they are not finishing contractors.They might be good with the wet trades like plastering or skim work but it's clear that they are not qualified painters or tilers. As a quantity surveyor I have worked on numerous refurbishment projects and I have never seen a company such bad quality finishes.The first red flag was when they installed the splash back tiling without doing any wall preparation. The paint and cretestone was flaking off and I have pictures which show that no proper wall preparation was done before installing the new tiles. Unfortunately I only recieved the pictures after the tiling was done and there was not much we could do about it.The second incident was when the new ceiling paint were pealing off after they painted it. Once again no proper surface preparation were done. The existing ceiling paint had some paint flaking off and it was clear that they just painted over it. The existing mold were still visible through the new paint and I had to ask them to back to fix it. Kelvin had numerous exuses for this which includes us not making cleaning materials available for the cleaning of the ceiling. That came as a surprise to me because we paid them R6966 for materials and we only to provide the paint,tiles and sanitary ware. We all know the cost of some paint brushes,turpentine ,tile glue and some electrical wires doesnt add up to almost R7000, they could have bough the cleaning materials but inisted tgat I provide it.Until today the ceiling is still intact but the quality of the paintwork is not neat at all. There is little patches were the new fixes" were done.The third problem which bothers me to date is flaking off of the external paint. Kelvin blames it on rising damp but it's clear that it's not rising damp. There is a clear difference between paint flaking off because of rising damp and paint flaking off because of poor surface preparation. The paint outside is flaking off because of poor wall preparation. The bright red paint from the previous owner is still perfectly intact and the new layers of paint are flaking off. It's also clear that they didn't prepare the burglar bars for new paint because finishing quality it horribly uneven and you can see where the paint was previously flaking off. With painting surface preparation is extremely important and they clearly didn't do it as it should be done. There was clearly no pride in the work paint work.When Kelvin first came to quote for the job he insisted that it was issues in the roofing that was causing the water damage to the bottom of the internal walls . After much consideration we decided to get a damp specialist who did my neighbours walls to inspect the walls and he knew exactly what to do to fix our walls because it was indeed rising damp. The Dampproof specialist missed a few walls because he didn't quote for it. That being said Kelvin did not paint any of the walls that was not treated by the Dampproof specialist because it wasn't part of Magnate Projects quote.I would not recommend Magnate Projects to anyone because it's clear that they are trying to do things that they are not qualified to do. They were not the cheapest so we expected quality but all we got was excuses