Property maintenance in Folkestone and the surrounding patch.

What's covered

• Quarterly walk-round: full-property inspection with photographed snag list emailed back to owner
• Gutter clear, downpipe check, external timber and metalwork inspection on each visit
• Internal snag list - dripping taps, sticking doors, tired paint, dropped shelves - fixed on the same visit within visit time
• Boiler service scheduling (I don't do the service, I book the Gas Safe engineer)
• Post-storm check option after a named Channel gale - triage of any storm damage, insurance-record photos, make-safe scope
• Handover pack: key location, meter locations, isolation-valve locations, boiler details - useful for holiday-let managers

Pricing

Standard quarterly visit (4 per year): £220 per visit fixed. Covers a typical half-day on site. Any additional scope beyond that billed at £45 per hour. Post-storm check add-on after named storm: £120 fixed (triage and photo record only; repair scope quoted separately).

Who this suits

• Holiday-let owners near the seafront and Harbour Arm who need turnaround-visit backup
• Second-home owners in Sandgate or on the Leas who visit at weekends and want the small-jobs list handled between visits
• Executor / probate cases where a Folkestone property needs to hold up between viewings
• Landlords with a single let in the patch who don't want a full property-management contract

Folkestone-specific notes

Coastal-exposed stock rewards regular light-touch maintenance more than inland stock does - salt-air corrosion and Channel weather both move faster than a builder's usual maintenance cycle assumes. Ninety percent of the "we came back and something was wrong" call-outs are things a quarterly visit would have caught six weeks earlier. Quiet, boring, on-time visits are the point.