Established by Mike and Nicky Askew in 2002 as a full home maintenance service, T-rifik Painters began to specialise in painting in 2009 and have been a leading service provider to the Upper Highway area ever since.
Together with our team, we’re passionate about what we do and our hands-on approach to business keeps us in touch with every step of our client’s projects and the industry at large.
Being perfectionists, we pride ourselves on our attention to detail. Each job is carefully monitored to ensure that it meets our exacting standard before sign off. In fact, we like to stay in touch with our clients from start to finish, offering advice on colours and paint finishes and doing our best to accommodate your needs.
From large projects to smaller jobs, our size means we’re big enough to deal with just about anything, but are also flexible enough to suit your requirements, going out of our way to respect your space and privacy, while ensuring we finish on time, every time.
Our commitment to you:
- Professional service
- Quality workmanship
- Qualified site supervision
- Attention to detail
- Proper preparation of walls
- Colour advice
- Consideration of your needs
- Thorough clean up
- Service guarantee
Our Services

Interior & Exterior Painting
We have been specialising in painting since 2009, and have become a leading exterior and interior painting contractor in Durban’s Upper Highway Area.

Furniture Painting
We are able to paint built-in fixtures, such as kitchen cuboards and decking, as well as moveable items such as headboards, tables and chairs.

High Pressure Cleaning
We offer high pressure cleaning services to both residential and industrial clients – our knowledge of surfaces ensures the best service.
- High Pressure Cleaning
- Anti-mould Treatment
- Filling, Sanding & Priming
- Silicone Sealing
- Anti-rust Treatment




If you are looking for a reputable painting contractor in the Upper Highway area – for your home, your office, or your factory – then you want to be certain that you’re getting in professionals.
How can you be sure that the painter you call in is going to get the job done right? Are all painting companies the same? Who are the best painters in the Upper Highway?
House painting or renovating is a big project and consists of far more than simply painting walls. The best way to ensure a quality finish is to get the preparation right. Our team consistently follow a rigorous process of high-pressure cleaning, opening and filling cracks, scraping and priming, and carefully applying top quality paint. Our experienced crew can skim and plaster, fill, sand, silicone, and varnish – whatever it takes to get a brilliant final result.
Interior and exterior painting jobs are treated with the same meticulous methods.
But we don’t stop at just painting walls. Internal ceilings, especially in bathrooms, need extra special care – often requiring treatment for mould, mildew, and water stains. Windows may need putty or beading, sanding or varnishing. Eaves, gutters, bargeboards, wooden decks – you name it, we’ve done it.
If you are looking for a painting quote, we’d love to chat. Contact our friendly team today.

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- Cell: 082 924 3063
- Tel: 031 764 0406
- Email: nicky@t-rifik.co.za
