What we cover
Our property maintenance work is exterior and building-fabric focused, centred on keeping water out and the outside of the building sound.
- Roof repairs and roof-level maintenance
- Gutter clearing, repair, realignment and replacement
- Fascia, soffit, bargeboard and roofline repair or renewal
- Repointing and localised masonry repair
- Chimney repairs, repointing and flaunching
- Render patching and weatherproofing
- External timber repair and replacement
- Storm damage repairs and make-safe work
- Moss removal and roof cleaning
- Pre-winter and pre-letting exterior checks
Reactive repairs versus planned maintenance
Reactive work is what most people call us for: something has failed and it needs fixing. It's necessary, and we offer 24/7 cover for the urgent end of it.
Planned maintenance is cheaper. An annual exterior check, gutters cleared, pointing and roofline inspected, small defects corrected while they're small, costs a fraction of the reactive work it prevents, and it means far fewer unwelcome phone calls in January.
For landlords and letting agents
Rental property has a different maintenance economics: a defect that a homeowner might live with becomes a complaint, a dispute, or an empty property. Exterior water ingress is behind a large share of tenant damp complaints, and it's cheap to prevent relative to the cost of remediating it.
We work with landlords and letting agents on both reactive repairs and scheduled maintenance, and we can price work across multiple properties as a single fixed-price package. One contact, one invoice, one set of dates.
Pre-winter and pre-sale checks
Autumn is when the year's cheapest maintenance pays for itself: gutters cleared after leaf fall, roofline and pointing checked, loose material dealt with before the first serious gale. Almost every emergency call-out we take in December and January traces back to something that would have been visible in October.
Before a sale, an exterior tidy-up removes the visible items that surveyors comment on and buyers use to negotiate, usually for far less than the reduction they'd otherwise ask for.
Residential and commercial maintenance
Domestic maintenance is generally about protecting the home and staying ahead of decay. Commercial property adds operational pressure: work has to fit around trading, and defects that affect customers or stock need faster attention.
We handle both, and the fixed-price approach doesn't change. You get a written price for an agreed scope, and it doesn't move because a job took longer than expected.
Why one trade for the list works better
Buildings don't respect trade boundaries. A damp bedroom wall can be a gutter problem, a pointing problem, a roofline problem or a chimney problem, and frequently it's two of them at once.
When one contractor looks at the whole exterior, that diagnosis happens in a single visit instead of across three, and nobody has an incentive to declare it somebody else's job. Monarch is a team of 10 led by owner John Tate, so the person who quotes and the people who carry out the work are the same outfit throughout.
