Planned and reactive maintenance for offices, retail centres, industrial property and body corporates across Cape Town and the Winelands — one number, vetted contractors, documented attendance.
Written specification and quotation. No obligation.
Before You Appoint Anyone
Commercial buyers screen on compliance before price. This is what is checked before a contractor is put in front of you.
Most commercial property does not fail dramatically; it degrades. A blocked gutter becomes a damp ceiling, a dripping isolation valve becomes a tenant complaint, and the cost of catching either late is many times the cost of catching it early. Fonster gives facilities managers and managing agents a single number for the trades a building actually needs month to month, with the same vetted contractors returning to a property they already know.
The day-to-day: a leaking geyser above a tenanted unit, a lighting circuit tripping, a blocked drain in a restaurant kitchen, a door closer that has failed on a fire door. What matters here is not craft but response — getting a competent trade to the property fast enough that a small failure stays small, and having a record afterwards of who attended and what was done.
Gutter and downpipe clearing ahead of winter, roof and flashing inspections, servicing air conditioning before summer load, checking pumps and irrigation before the dry months. This is the work that quietly removes most emergency call-outs from a property, and it is the easiest thing to defer until the year it becomes a capital item instead.
Sectional title brings its own dynamic: work has to be approved, scoped and documented in a way trustees can present, and the boundary between common property and an owner’s section decides who pays. Contractors quote to that boundary explicitly rather than leaving a managing agent to argue it afterwards.
Between leases a unit needs a compressed burst of work — patching and repainting, replacing damaged flooring, electrical and plumbing checks, locks and signage. The constraint is almost always the calendar, because an unlet week costs more than the work. This is scheduled as a package rather than trade by trade.
Property Types
How It Works
Proof, Not Promises
Real completed maintenance jobs invoiced through Fonster contractors — including commercial facilities and managed properties.
Where We Work
Every town listed here is one where Fonster has completed maintenance, handyman, gutter, electrical or waterproofing work — not simply a service area we claim.
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FAQ
No. Most properties start with individual jobs and move to scheduled preventative work once they see how it runs. There is no lock-in and no minimum term.
The ones commercial property actually needs month to month — handyman and general repairs, plumbing, electrical, waterproofing, gutters, painting, cleaning, air conditioning and pumps. If a job needs a trade we do not cover well, we say so rather than sending someone marginal.
It depends on the trade and the area, and we will tell you honestly when we book it rather than promising a number we cannot hold. Properties we already work on get scheduled faster because the contractor knows the building.
Yes. Jobs are tracked and photographed so you have evidence of attendance and completion for trustee packs or owner reporting.
The contractor. Fonster vets, matches and coordinates, and stays involved until the job is signed off, but your contract and any guarantee sit with the contractor doing the work.
Yes, and for retail and occupied offices it is usually the only workable option. Say so when the job is booked so it is scheduled and priced that way from the start.
Yes. Contractors quote to the common-property boundary explicitly, so the split between the body corporate and an individual owner is clear before work starts rather than argued afterwards.
Cape Town’s northern suburbs, the False Bay coast and the Cape Winelands — including Paarl, Durbanville, Stellenbosch, Bellville, Somerset West, Kuils River, Brackenfell and surrounds.
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