Alhaurin – Specialised Build

Custom built wooden bar for brewery restaurant

Custom built wooden bar for brewery restaurant by our carpenters.

This custom made wooden bar perfectly compliments the surroundings. This was quite an involved project, as the weight needing support was quite significant.

A steel structure was made first, all welded and treated, then all bolted and welded into position to take the main weight of the barrels. Around the base of this, we built the support of the bar top from rustic clay bricks.

On top of this support is the solid wooden bar top, the wooden pillars that provide decoration and support for the tongue and groove ceiling.

Once everything was completed, it was all sanded, sealed and stained.

This type of custom built wooden bar can be used in restaurants, bars or be equally at home as a feature in your entertainment areas, such as home bar, pool room or in a room at the side of the swimming pool.

Our carpenters can make bars to suit any space, whether commercial or private, new build villa, or recently renovated apartment.

wooden bar structures

interior bar

wooden bar structure

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Bar structure

tongue groove work

shop fitting

Our team is able to do all types of building works. We try to showcase projects that are different from the norm. We can fit out bars, shops, restaurants as well as work on domestic properties, such as villas or apartments. This project was in Gibraltar, however we prefer to work in Spain.

If you would like to discuss any project, please get in touch. We work with building all along the Costa del Sol, from Malaga to San Roque, covering Mijas, Marbella, Fuengirola, Estepona and inland to Alhaurin, Monda, Coin, Ronda, Gaucin, etc.

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Epoxy resin flooring, villas renovated in Marbella

Epoxy resin flooring, villas renovated in Marbella.

Choosing the flooring for your villa can be a difficult task. The standard choices are high quality ceramics tiles, highly polished marble or granite. These are popular choices because they are attractive and hard wearing, but if you want some impact, try something different.

Epoxy resin floors are hard wearing and impermeable and the choice of designs and colours are endless.

Epoxy resin flooring in Marbella

Resin floors, Marbella

Epoxy flooring Costa del Sol

Kitchen flooring

Epoxy resin floors are suitable not only for individual choices in private villas or apartments, but they are also perfect for industrial applications, such as restaurant kitchen floors, garages and workshops, medical centres.

The reason for this is their inert, waterproof and smooth finish, meaning that liquids and bacterias can’t soak into grout lines, unlike traditional floors.

Contact Costa del Sol and Marbella builders to discuss your requirements today.

We work from Mijas Fuengirola, through to Marbella and Estepona, inland up to Coin, Alhaurin, Monda.

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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

start of swimming pool construction in Estepona

Swimming Pools

Swimming pool construction and renovation, Costa del Sol

We have vast experience in the renovation and construction of swimming pools.

For new swimming pool constructions, the most time consuming thing is the paperwork. The actual construction of a concrete swimming pool takes us about 2 weeks.

The first step in the construction of the swimming pool is to retain an architect. The architect will draw up plans and submit these for approval. Once the plans have been stamped, we can move on to applying for the building license. This can take any where from a few weeks to 12 months, depending on the area.

When the paperwork is completed and approved we can break ground. We favour sprayed gunite concrete for small domestic pools. The pool form is excavated to the required dimensions, and brick shuttering is built. Once this is in place, steel reinforcing is put into place, along with the pipes and light buckets.

The concrete is then sprayed at the wall under high pressure to a depth of around 200mm

After this we cast the white marmolina swimming pool surround, render the walls and tile with glass mosaic gresite.

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Complete Villa Renovation in Coin, nr Marbella, Costa del Sol

The joy of purchasing a home on the Costa del Sol, is that you are able to put your stamp on it and make it truly personal. Renovating or reforming an existing finca or villa is a way of doing just that. It allows yo to get the finish that you want from your swimming pool area, terrace and interior living spaces.

Planning the schedule of works is the first step. We will not only discuss your immediate plans, but also your future plans to ensure that no unnecessary works are done and that no extra cost is incurred in the long term.

Part of our service can include the application for the correct licenses from the town hall (ayuntamiento), whether it be small works (obra menor) or major project (obra mayor). In general, for an obra mayor an architects project is required.

Our team of specialists includes architects, plumbers, certified electricians, tilers, painters.. we have it covered.

In this example, the project was of a huge scale, taking just under 6 months to complete. The entire home was stripped out down to bare walls and floors and then started again. This included all the electrics and plumbing. The villa was completely rewired and supplied with a new Boletin (safety certificate required by the energy company). Some of the plumbing was not good as new pipes had been added, others blocked off etc.. so leaks would probably be a problem in the future.

Each room was completely stripped out, rendered and plastered, then new high quality tiled floors put down. New windows and doors were installed.

Here are some progress photos, in later posts, we will post finished pictures and detailed descriptions of the building work involved.

Progress with interior renovation of villa

Exterior , Interior , Swimming Pools

Villa renovation Fuengirola

This is the first stages of a complete villa renovation in Fuengirola. The villa will undergo a complete reform, but the work will be carried out in stages to ease the financial burden of the project and to give the clients relief from the building works (as the clients have moved into the villa now it is habitable).

The first part of the renovation was carried out last year, renovating the interior, kitchen, bathroom, and living areas. This was all plastered and painted and is a comfortable living space.

The second part of the renovation was what can be seen here. The pool was leaking, so has been renovated using a Renolit AlkorPlan 3000 reinforced pool membrane which completely seals the structure, with a 10 year warranty. In addition some minor leaks were repaired in the pump room.

We have carried out some exterior painting with fine detail on the balustrade and replaced some doors and windows.

In the pictures you can see that work has started on the underbuild, The basement area will be made into a self contained apartment.

We can be flexible and work to our clients needs and budget.

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Electrician Costa del Sol

We have qualified electricians on hand that can rewire villas and apartments and provide the all important “boletin”, to be able to get electrical connection.

If major renovation works are done on an older property, it makes little sense to leave old cable under new finishes.

As part of the rewiring, plug sockets, lights and light switches can all be put in more convenient places. Cables and conduits can be run for existing installations and also allow for future upgrades such as air conditioning units, pool heaters, exterior lighting, automated gates. Part of our approach to building works is to think about future requirements as well, this often saves money in the long run.

Exterior , Swimming Pools

Pool transformation, pool made bigger, pool tiled and leaks repaired

We completely renovated this old leaking swimming pool. The first thing we did was diagnose the source of the leaks. We diagnosed leaks in 2 runs of plumbing, in both the skimmer pipes and the return pipe.

The bridge, which didn’t really have a purpose was removed so we could make the pool wider, as at this point it was very narrow. The pool looked even narrower once the bridge was removed. It is not normally recommended to alter the structure of a pool, but in this case it was feasible, as we were working on the shallow end of the pool, where there was less stresses involved.

Steps were built into the shallow end of the pool that also serve as a seating area, perfect for enjoying the panoramic views from this villa in Mijas.

Once the pool had been made wider and the steps had been built in, we cast a new “marmolina” pool surround. The marmolina is white concrete that is floated to give a uniform smooth surface, but still is non slip. To make the marmolina we have to build shuttering around the pool and pour the mix into it. After the shuttering comes off, we polish the edges and put expansion cuts in it.

After this the swimming pool can be tiled, grouted and cleaned ready for filling.

The plumbing is all new, for a trouble free future. When planning works to the pool, it is important to consider the future.

After all this work, the transformation was complete with a tropical turquoise tile and a beautiful new surround. This was quite an amazing transformation, taking our superb team about 2 weeks. For perspective, the pool measures 15m x 5m