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Renovations in Gran Alacant.
Gran Alacant is a huge urbanisation perched on the plateau between Santa Pola and the sea, with the best views of the bay and the wind that comes with them. Thousands of near-identical terraced bungalows, a shared pool and community statutes. Renovating here well means allowing for the constant wind, the salt at altitude that batters the flat roofs and the rules of a large community.
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The homes of Gran Alacant
The terraced urbanisation bungalow dominates — ground floor or upper floor with a solarium — in large communities with a shared pool and statutes. Mostly built from the 1990s, with seasonal services and flat roofs very exposed to the sun and wind.
Seasonal bungalows, some lived in all year, with flat roofs that are very exposed. The renovation is designed for what really suffers up here: the wind that slips through every gap, the salt that pits the metalwork and waterproofing that has to stand the plateau sun.
What this area does to a home
- Wind and salt off the plateau
- In Gran Alacant the wind is constant and carries salt off the sea. It punishes façades, frames, awnings and the air-conditioning units, and it forces the solarium waterproofing. Here the materials and fixings are chosen knowing the wind and salt give no respite.
- A roof in the sun and wind in the gaps
- With the wind slipping through every poorly-sealed gap, the bungalow loses comfort and builds up damp; and on top of that the flat roof, baked by the plateau sun and battered by the wind, is where the asphalt sheet cracks first and the leak appears. Both are tackled at once — sealing and ventilation inside, waterproofing checked dry outside — before the first autumn storm finds the hole.
- A large community with statutes
- Gran Alacant is a single giant urbanisation, and its statutes are strict precisely about what suffers most up here: how the solarium is enclosed so the wind doesn't tear it off, where and how the air-con unit is anchored to stand the gusts, what can be touched on the shared flat roof. Going it alone ends in a formal notice; we check the rules and talk to the estate management before we start.
Why an in-house team
In Gran Alacant the wind blows salt-laden and gives no respite to façades, fixings or flat roofs, and the community statutes watch every solarium enclosure. Our way is to do it well and without hassle: a fixed written quote before we start, no last-minute extras; a named person in charge who checks the rules before touching anything; and a date that's met. Fast, done properly and no surprises.
What we do in Gran Alacant
Bathroom renovations in Gran Alacant
Most Gran Alacant bungalows were built from the 1990s on, and the bathroom shows it: a bath nobody uses, original tiling, pipework put in for a summer home and a damp patch where the wind gets in through a badly sealed frame. We strip it back, run new pipework and wastes, tank the wet area before any tile goes on, swap the bath for a walk-in shower if you want one and sort the ventilation. Our own plumbers and electricians, a fixed written quote and a written guarantee.
Bathroom refurbishmentKitchen renovations in Gran Alacant
The typical bungalow kitchen was wired for the appliances of its day: oven, hob, dishwasher and washing machine now share circuits never meant for them. In an upper-floor bungalow the flat roof and solarium sit overhead, so we check the ceiling for damp before a single unit goes in. Building work, plumbing, extraction and the electrics are all ours: independent circuits with their own protection and the certificate signed by a registered installer, units levelled, worktop fitted, every appliance connected and tested. One invoice, one written guarantee.
Kitchen refurbishmentFull home renovations in Gran Alacant
A bungalow built for the summer and now used well beyond it tends to need everything at once: a consumer unit at its limit, tired plumbing, frames that let the plateau wind through and a flat roof where the asphalt sheet has begun to crack. A full renovation does it in one job: new wiring and plumbing, gaps sealed and the home ventilated, kitchen, bathrooms and air conditioning, and your own solarium waterproofed while the roof is dry. Fixed written quote, one named person, certificates at handover.
Full renovationRegistered electricians in Gran Alacant
Bungalow wiring here was usually put in for a summer home: a consumer unit with little per-circuit protection, an air-conditioning unit added to a circuit never sized for it, and salt on the outdoor sockets and fittings. As registered low-voltage installers we replace the consumer unit, run new circuits, raise the contracted power where needed and issue the electrical certificate, the boletín, that you need to contract or restore a supply and often to let or sell. Signed by the team that did the work, with a written guarantee.
Electrical workAir conditioning and heat pumps in Gran Alacant
Up on the plateau the outdoor unit takes the punishment: salt pitting the casing and gusts working at the fixings. As a RITE-registered firm we size the system room by room and place the outdoor unit where it's sheltered, anchored for the wind and allowed by the community statutes. For a bungalow lived in all year we look at an aerothermal heat pump for heating and hot water, where the insulation justifies it, and say so if it doesn't. Certificate handed over, signed by the team that fitted it.
Air conditioning
Renovating your Gran Alacant bungalow from abroad
It starts with a visit you don't need to be here for. A neighbour, your agent or a key-holder lets us in. We measure and check the things Gran Alacant is hard on: the flat roof and solarium, looked at dry, and the frames the wind gets through. Usually within a day or two you have a fixed written quote, line by line, in English, and the visit costs nothing.
Before anything starts we deal with the two things owners lose sleep over. The works declaration or licence goes to Santa Pola town hall, prepared and submitted by us; touch structure and it's a licence with a project. We also read your community's statutes, strict here on solarium enclosures, where an air-conditioning unit is anchored and what can be touched on the shared flat roof, and speak to the estate management about working hours and the communal areas.
One named person runs the job and you follow it in a single WhatsApp thread: photos at every stage, the waterproofing and the wiring included before they're covered, and every decision put to you in writing with options. If the bungalow only opens in summer we work in autumn or winter, checking the roof dry before the rain comes, and hand it back for Easter with the certificates and the written guarantee. Sign off in person or from home.
Gran Alacant — your questions
Do you renovate bungalows on the Gran Alacant urbanisations?
Yes, it's one of our coastal areas. We know the terraced bungalow, the solarium and the flat roof so typical here, and we work respecting the community's rules and work hours.
The wind and salt wreck my façade, awnings and air conditioning. What's the solution?
Materials and fixings made for an exposed spot: frames and fittings for a marine environment, air-con units well placed and protected, and reinforced solarium waterproofing. In Gran Alacant, renovating with interior-grade materials is throwing money away.
Can I enclose the solarium? And will it hold up in the wind?
It depends on what your community's statutes allow and on the council licence; we check before quoting. If it's allowed, we build it with framing and fixings made for the plateau wind, which up here tears off anything not properly secured.
My roof leaks. Do you handle the waterproofing?
Yes, it's one of the most common repairs in Gran Alacant because of the plateau sun and wind. We check the roof dry, find the joint or point that's failing and solve it before the damp reaches the ceiling.
Do you handle the electrics and the air conditioning with paperwork?
Yes. We're authorised low-voltage electricians and a registered climate-installation firm: the electrics with their signed certificate and the air conditioning with its own. In a home exposed to the wind and salt, a single person responsible for everything avoids surprises.
Do I need a licence from Santa Pola town hall to refit a bathroom or kitchen?
Most jobs need a works declaration or a licence, depending on what's touched. A bathroom or kitchen refit within the existing walls is usually the lighter procedure, enclosing the solarium needs the council licence and the community's say-so, and touching structure means a licence with a project. Either way we prepare and submit it as part of the job, so you're not dealing with a Spanish town hall from abroad.
Do I need to tell my community of owners before the work starts?
Yes, and it's ours to manage. Gran Alacant communities are large and their statutes are specific about what can be touched, so we check them before quoting rather than after a complaint. We speak to the estate management, keep to the hours allowed for noisy work and protect the communal areas. Send us the administrator's contact and we take it from there.
I only use the bungalow in summer, or let it. When should the work happen?
Autumn or winter, with the home empty. We take the bungalow on once the season winds down, work to a calendar in writing, and hand it back ready for Easter and the first guests, so you don't lose a week of summer. It's also the sensible time up here: the roof gets checked dry and the gaps the wind finds are sealed with nobody living in the dust.
I'm not in Spain and my Spanish is poor. How does the contact work?
In English, in writing, from the first message. The quote, the questions and every decision come through one WhatsApp thread with the named person running your job, so nothing is lost in translation or in a phone call you can't take. For access we work with your neighbour, agent or key-holder, and the keys go back to them at handover.
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