We offer a property maintenance service to homeowners, landlords, and estate agents, keeping properties secure, compliant, and market-ready with our reliable landlord property maintenance services. We take the stress out of property management by offering fast turnaround times, routine upkeep, and emergency repairs to protect your investment and keep your tenants satisfied.
What We Do
- Routine Maintenance & Repairs: Prompt handling of day-to-day repairs, plumbing fixes, minor electrical work, and general joinery.
- End-of-Tenancy Refresh: Plaster patching, repainting, and lock changes to ensure your property is ready for new tenants quickly.
- Preventative Exterior Upkeep: Roof inspections, gutter clearing, brickwork repointing, and fence repairs to protect your building envelope from costly long-term damage.
Why Landlords Partner With Us
- Single Point of Contact: Avoid coordinating multiple trades. We manage all repairs, trades, and scheduling directly.
- Rapid Response & Reliability: Timely turnarounds to minimise tenancy gaps and resolve tenant issues before they escalate.
- Transparent Pricing & Detailed Invoicing: Clear quotes, no hidden fees, and itemised billing to keep your financial records seamless.
What landlords need from a property maintenance contractor in Cambridge
A landlord’s repair duties are set in law. GOV.UK lists the structure and exterior, sanitary fittings with their pipes and drains, heating and hot water, gas appliances, electrical wiring and fire safety. So a maintenance contractor needs to cover the fabric of the building: leaks, rotten joinery, loose tiles, blocked gutters and worn pointing.
Beyond that, landlords and agents mostly want someone who answers, quotes clearly and turns up when agreed. A short note of what was found and fixed also builds a useful repair history.
Some checks are specialist work in their own right. Gas appliances must be checked every 12 months by a Gas Safe registered engineer, with a copy of the record given to tenants. The electrics must be inspected and tested at least every five years by a qualified person. There must be a smoke alarm on every storey with living accommodation, a carbon monoxide alarm in any room used as living accommodation that has a fixed combustion appliance other than a gas cooker, and the alarms must be checked as working on the day a new tenancy begins.
How maintenance work tends to run
- The report: the problem is described, ideally with photos, so the right materials come on the first visit.
- Urgency: water through a ceiling or a door that will not lock comes before a sticking drawer.
- Access: outside emergencies, tenants are normally given at least 24 hours’ written notice before a visit, so it pays to agree a time early.
- The repair: the job is done and the landlord or agent hears whether anything else was spotted.
Exterior upkeep follows the seasons: clear gutters once the leaves have dropped, and check roofs and chimneys after winter gales.
Repairs, permissions and older buildings
Ordinary maintenance that only affects the inside of a building, or does not materially change its outside appearance, is not treated as development under planning law. Some jobs still bring in other rules. Replacement windows and doors have been covered by the Building Regulations since 2002, so they need either an installer registered with a competent person scheme or approval from building control. If the property is listed, consent is needed for works that affect its special character, and that can include repairs in different materials; working without it is a criminal offence. A mandatory HMO licence applies where five or more people from more than one household share facilities, and councils can add their own schemes.
Planning and licensing rules differ between authorities, so for a particular property, talk to Cambridge City Council, South Cambridgeshire, East Cambridgeshire or West Suffolk before committing to the work.
Areas we look after
We carry out repairs and upkeep for owners, landlords and agents in Cambridge, Newmarket and the surrounding villages, among them Trumpington, Histon, Milton, Sawston, Linton, Newmarket, Exning and Red Lodge. For joinery repairs see our carpentry page, and for worn pointing on older walls, brickwork and flint walls.
Maintenance questions from landlords and owners
Do you work with letting agents as well as landlords?
Yes. Our maintenance service is for homeowners, landlords and estate agents alike. Agents managing several properties often want one firm to deal with, and that is how we run it: we organise the trades and the scheduling for each repair, so the agent has a single point of contact instead of chasing a plumber, an electrician and a joiner separately for the same house.
What should be checked between tenancies?
Walk the property with fresh eyes: walls and ceilings for marks and damp, doors, windows and locks for security, taps, sinks and seals for leaks, and the garden and boundaries. Test the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, because they have to be working on the day the new tenancy starts. Fixing small faults before a tenant moves in usually means fewer call-outs in the first months.
What affects the cost of property maintenance?
Every job is different. Access is a big factor, especially for roofs, gutters and chimneys that need scaffolding or a tower. Others include how many trades are involved, the materials, whether parts have to be ordered, how urgent the visit is, and what is found once something is opened up. A clear description and photos at the start help keep a quote accurate.