March 2018 – Specialised Build

Covered outdoor terrace and other general building, Marbella

Building works to a country villa near Marbella progressing well. The sandwich board roof is in place, with the beams painted. Next project is to level and tile the floor and render the walls. This will be easier for our workers now, as they can work in the shade. The new roof over the patio has been put much higher than the original, this will make it cooler in summer and allow more light into the house.

In the interior more rooms have been stripped out ready for more new wiring.

We work in the Marbella, Mijas, Fuengirola and Estepona areas on the coast and inland to Alhaurin, Coin and Monda. We work with all types of building and renovations, including swimming pools and pool leak detection.

We can add terraces around your swimming pool, build extensions, whatever your villa on the Costa del Sol needs.

Covering and enclosing terrace

Terrace roof in place

New plasterboard ceilings

Rewiring as part of villa renovation

Swimming Pools

Pool surround replacement with marmolina, Elviria, Marbella

Here we have before and work in progress pictures of a pool in Elviria, Marbella. We are laying a new white stone (Marmolina) surround and afterwards we will acid clean and regrout the whole pool to have it looking perfect for summer 2018! More pictures coming soon…

The marmolina white pool surround is a very hard wearing, non slip material. It is mixed onsite, poured into shuttering, then polished and afterwards we make cuts into it for expansion.

The surround on this swimming pool was in very poor condition, so had to be changed. At the end, the pool will be acid cleaned and then regrouted.

This work is part of a complete villa renovation in the popular area of Elviria, near Marbella.

This kind of project normally takes around 5 days.

New swimming pool surround, Elviria

Swimming pool renovation, Marbella

Swimming pool works, Marbella

Installing new pool surround, Marbella

Pool repairs, Marbella

Pool & Villa reform, Marbella

If you would like a more information about renovating your home in or around Marbella, contact us today

Swimming pool leak detection and pool repairs

Exterior

Covering outdoor terrace and new windows installed, nr Marbella

In this work, we have demolished the old terrace roof which was built on 2 different levels and very low.

The plan is to make the entire floor one level and tile with the same tiles as the interior of the house. The roof has been made much higher than the original to give more light inside the house. The material specified is an aluminium sandwich board, which has excellent insulation properties, this will help to keep tings cool in Summer and the house warmer in Winter.

The final touch here will be glass curtains all along the front, making it possible to use the terrace all year round.

Covered terrace, Marbella. Building works

Covered terrace, Glass curtains, Marbella

Installation of windows and doors, Marbella

Covering outdoor terrace

View from inside the house, Marbella

Interior

Interior plastering and plasterboard, Coin, nr Marbella

Interior plastering and plasterboard, Coin, nr Marbella.

This beautiful country house is in the hills above Marbella on the way to Coin. In this post, you can see the progress that our building team has made on the interior of the property. The house was very old and had constantly had new parts added and so none of the rooms had straight walls or ceilings of the same height.

In this part, which will be the lounge, we have removed columns, chimneys, false ceilings and stone cladding. We have then installed the plasterboard on all walls and ceiling. This will mean that where there were 2 rooms with several different finishes and different ceiling heights, there is now one type of wall and one level of ceiling.

There is a cavity between the plasterboard and the original walls, so this will give added insulation.

All the floors will have the same slate grey tiles throughout.

In the adjoining room, we have started to strip out the ceiling and this will get the same treatment.

Removing false ceilings, campo house, Marbella

Coin, Costa del Sol Builders

Interior plasterboarding, Marbella

Renovation of villa, Marbella

Coin, Malaga, Building company

Building services, Costa del Sol

Plaster board, interior, Marbella

Total villa renovation

We have also installed all new windows, with double glazing and persiana shutters and completely rewired the entire house. The finishing touch will be a new cast iron wood burning stove

Swimming Pools , Uncategorized

Swimming Pool Borders, DIY self adhesive for stained water line

We are a construction based business, so it’s not often that we find a product that is worth recommending.

Staining around the waterline of a swimming pool is a common problem. It is not always the fault of the maintenance of the pool, although this does play a big role in staining at the water line. Things like heavy metals, sun cream, high pH will all cause a problem with staining of the pool border.

On traditionally built swimming pools, such as those with mosaic tiles, this area can be cleaned with hydrochloric acid, which will remove stains (but it also removes the cement grout and can start to damage the glaze of the mosaic tiles), but on fibreglass pools, liner pools and even painted pools this kind of treatment is not possible. Usually the only solution is to resurface the pool.

Our friends at piscinaliner.com have come up with the solution, a self adhesive swimming pool border that is DIY fitment, is safe with the chemicals and looks great.

An unsightly border is a thing of the past. They ship throughout Spain.

These borders can be used on any type of swimming pool, painted, fibreglass, polyester or liner. Here are a couple of before and after examples.