Who we are
A contractor you only have to phone once
PROPVEST exists because too many property jobs stall in the gaps between trades. We closed the gaps by keeping the trades together.
The story
Built around the jobs that go wrong
Ask anyone who has renovated a South African home what went wrong and you will usually hear the same story. The builder finished and left. The window people were booked for three weeks later. When they finally came, the opening was ten millimetres out, so it went back to the factory. Meanwhile there was a hole in the wall and nobody would take responsibility for it.
PROPVEST was put together to remove that seam. We build, and we manufacture and fit aluminium, and we plumb, and we do the landscaping at the end — with the same project manager holding all of it. When the brickwork moves, the window schedule moves with it, because it is the same programme and the same person.
Turnkey, in practice
What ‘turnkey’ actually means here
Turnkey is an overused word. What it means at PROPVEST is narrow and specific: you sign one quote, you deal with one person, and you get the property back finished — not finished-except-for-the-glazing, and not finished-but-the-rubble-is-still-there.
In practice that covers the parts of a job that usually get handed off. Making good the plaster and paint around a new window frame. Waterproofing the junction where an extension meets the existing roof. Getting the rubble off the property. Sweeping the driveway. None of it is glamorous and all of it is what separates a job that reads as finished from one that does not.
It also means we will tell you when a job is not for us. If what you need is a specialist we are not, saying so on the first visit costs you nothing and costs us nothing but an afternoon.
Why it matters
Aluminium and structural work in the same team
Openings are where buildings leak, crack and go out of square, and they are exactly where the builder’s work meets the glazier’s. Most contractors subcontract one side of that joint. We do not.
Because our aluminium team measures while the brickwork is still going up, the frames are made to the opening that actually exists rather than the one on the drawing. Lintels get set at the right height. Sills get the right fall. Waterproofing is detailed before the frame goes in instead of siliconed afterwards.
On a remodel it shows up as programme. There is no three-week gap between the builders leaving and the window company arriving, because it is one team on one schedule — which is usually the difference between a job running to time and a job that does not.
Our commitments
Three things we do not negotiate on
The price is in writing before we start
Every job is quoted with the scope itemised, so you can see what is in and what is out. If something unforeseen appears once a wall is open, we stop, show you and price it with you rather than adding it to an invoice at the end.
The site is left clean
We tidy at the end of every working day, not only at the end of the job, and rubble removal is inside the quoted price. You should be able to live in the house while we work on it.
One person is accountable
Evan runs the job from the first site visit through to handover. You are not passed between a salesperson, a foreman and an office.
Who you deal with
Evan, Lead Project Manager
Evan does the first site visit, writes the quote, runs the programme and hands the job back at the end. That is deliberate: on a property job the person who priced it should be the person standing on the site while it is built, because they are the only one who knows what was promised.
If you need something looked at, phone or WhatsApp him on 082 594 7402. Photographs of the job help — send them straight through and you will usually get a sense of the scope before anyone has to drive anywhere.
Tell us about the job.
A site visit and a written quote cost you nothing. If it turns out we are not the right people for it, we will say so.