Building maintenance across Torbay and South Devon.

Reactive repairs — the call you did not plan for

Water is behind most reactive calls. A failed flat roof, a blocked or split gutter, a lead flashing that has lifted, a window that has finally lost its seal, a wall that has started to hold damp on the weather side.

The first job is diagnosis, not repair. Water travels, and the wet patch is very often nowhere near the failure. We would rather spend an hour working out what is actually happening than sell you a repair to the wrong thing.

• Roof leaks, slipped tiles and failed flat roofs
• Guttering, downpipes and rainwater goods
• Damp investigation and remedial building work
• Rot and failed timber in windows, sills and structure
• Cracked or blown render and pointing
• Doors, windows and general joinery repairs

Planned maintenance for coastal property

Salt air is unforgiving. Anything ferrous corrodes faster, paint systems fail sooner, and exposed elevations take weather that inland properties never see. Property in Torbay needs a shorter maintenance cycle than the national average advice assumes.

Planned maintenance means deciding in advance what gets looked at and when, so decorating, roof checks, gutter clearing and joinery repairs happen before failure rather than after it. For landlords this is usually the difference between a predictable annual cost and an unpredictable emergency one.

• Annual roof and rainwater check before winter
• External joinery inspection and repainting cycle
• Pointing and render reviewed on the weather elevations
• Repairs bundled into one visit rather than drip-fed

Landlords, lettings and small commercial premises

Tenanted property has different pressures: access windows, tenant communication and repairs that cannot drag on. We work to arranged appointments and keep the reporting simple — what was found, what was done, what still needs attention.

For small commercial premises the same applies with trading hours added. Where work is disruptive we look at out-of-hours or phased approaches rather than closing a business down.

When maintenance should become a project

There is a point where repeated repair is simply a slow, expensive way of replacing something. Three patches to the same flat roof cost more than re-covering it once.

We will say so. If the honest answer is that the element has reached the end of its life, you get told that rather than sold another patch — and we can carry out the replacement as a properly planned piece of work.

Common questions