Property maintenance on the Costa Blanca for owners who are not there: one handyman, one invoice

What we do

• Sockets, switches and bulbs (no rewiring)
• Bathroom and kitchen silicone
• Doors, drawers and handles
• Hanging things and small furniture
• Taps, hoses and traps
• Shutters and fly screens
• Bathroom and kitchen accessories
• Preparing a property for rent or sale
• Holiday-home maintenance (monthly check)
• Receiving furniture and appliance deliveries

How it works

1. 1

   Call or message

   Tell us what is wrong by phone or WhatsApp, with a photo if you can.

2. 2

   Fixed price

   You get the price before we start. No surprises, no call-out fee if you accept.

3. 3

   Fixed today

   We carry the usual parts in the van and solve it on the first visit.

What property maintenance on the Costa Blanca actually involves

A home closed for five months on this coast does not sit still. Limescale sets in the cistern and taps, flexi hoses corrode in the salt air, a shutter strap snaps at the first pull, the awning tears in the October storm and the fridge trips the circuit breaker. None of it is dramatic if noticed in week one. All of it is expensive if found in month five, usually by the neighbour below.

So the service is simple. We keep your keys in a signed log, go in once a month (or on the schedule you choose) and work through a checklist: stopcock and meter, taps and cisterns, hoses, water heater, fuse board, fridge, shutters, awning, terrace drains, damp, post. You get a photo report the same day, in English, with anything that needs attention and what it would cost.

Small jobs get done on the spot: a flexi hose, a cistern seal, a stuck shutter, silicone round the shower. Bigger jobs get a fixed price for you to approve from abroad. The handyman who checks the property is the one who fixes it, which is why there is one invoice and not three.

Key holding, arrival preparation and storm checks

Key holding. Keys stay with us, logged and receipted, never labelled with the address. We let in the meter reader, an engineer or a delivery for €25-40 per visit of up to an hour, and do check-ins for €30-50. Key holding alone is €60-120 a year, included in the monthly check. Full terms on the key holding page, with local pages for Torrevieja, Alicante and Orihuela Costa.

Arrival preparation. Two or three days before you land we open the water and power, run every tap clear, flush the cisterns, switch on the water heater and fridge, air the rooms and check the air conditioning starts (we do not touch refrigerant gas). €35-60, and you walk into a home that works instead of spending day one hunting for a plumber.

After a storm. When a gota fría or DANA goes through we visit the properties on our list within 48 hours: terrace drains, awning, shutters, water under doors, anything the wind has moved. Charged as a property check, €25-40, with photos the same day for the insurer before the claims queue forms.

End-of-season close-down. Water off at the mains, heater off, fridge emptied and propped open, awnings in, shutters down, meter readings noted. The reverse of arrival preparation, same price, and the best way to avoid a flooded kitchen in spring.

Property maintenance prices on the Costa Blanca

The figures are the same across our area. Repairs beyond the visit are charged at the handyman by the hour rate or the fixed price of the trade involved, approved on WhatsApp first.

Dealing with the comunidad, the administrador and the paperwork

Owning here comes with a comunidad de vecinos (residents' association), an administrador who writes in Spanish, and letterbox notices that matter: a water cut, a junta general vote, a leak the comunidad thinks is coming from your flat. We photograph anything official and tell you in plain English what it says and whether you need to act. If the comunidad needs access to trace a leak, we open the door and tell their plumber what we have already checked.

Every visit and repair goes on one invoice with IVA (VAT), in your name or your company's, which your gestor can use where expenses are deductible on a let. You pay by bank transfer from any country, or by card.

What this is not: full holiday-let management (listings, cleaning, payments), garden and pool, or alarms and private security, which need a licensed company. We work alongside the people who do those.

Where we maintain properties, and how far we travel

The core of our property maintenance work is the south of Alicante province, where most absent owners are: Torrevieja and its urbanisations (Los Balcones, La Siesta, La Mata), Orihuela Costa with La Zenia, Villamartín, Playa Flamenca and Cabo Roig, plus Ciudad Quesada, Rojales and Guardamar. An urgent visit takes 20-45 minutes.

From Alicante we cover the city, San Juan, Santa Pola and Elche. On the north coast we do monthly rounds in Calpe, Moraira, Jávea, Dénia and Altea, grouped so travel does not land on your invoice; an urgent visit there is 30-60 minutes. See roller shutter repair and awnings, the pair most often broken in spring, and the handyman hourly rate page for what a morning covers.

Guide prices

Handyman by the hour in…

• Valencia
• Alicante
• Torrevieja

Guides and tips

• What a handyman does and which jobs need no licence in Spain

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