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Scheduled maintenance for landlords, second-home owners, and absentee-owner cliff-edge properties. Empty-property winter checks. Between-tenancy punch-lists. The stuff that catches out anyone whose property isn’t their permanent address - and, on the Dover cliff belt, matters more than it does inland.
£95 call-out, first hour included, £45 per hour after that - a single punch-list item or a full property check, you pay for the time beyond the first hour.
The Dover-specific maintenance load is real. Absentee-owner properties on the cliff-top belt - second homes in St Margaret’s, Kingsdown and the Deal Road belt - get hit by easterlies for six months of the year while nobody’s there to notice a slipped tile or a blocked gutter. The classic damage pattern is: October easterly lifts one or two slates, November rain gets under the felt, February the owner arrives and finds a ceiling patch. A one-hour visit in November catches that before it happens.
The other running issue on absentee properties is salt-corroded external metalwork - gate hinges, external light fittings, satellite mounts - that fails silently while the owner’s not there. A quarterly walk-around picks these up on the day they need a five-minute fix, not the day they’ve become a bigger problem.
What we don’t do: full property management (that’s a lettings agent), tenant-facing emergency call-outs at 2am, or gas-safety certificates (Gas Safe engineer). We do the maintenance work; the compliance and tenant-relations side stays with your agent.
On every job
No fix, no fee 5% off for pensionersPhotos and postcode to hello@doverhandyman.co.uk, call 07763 100 477, or open WhatsApp. Same-day quote in most cases.