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Built on honesty. Chosen for relief

Trusted by Edinburgh's owners, factors, and hotel groups

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Edinburgh Tenements

Building Inspections

Hotels

Rainwater Goods

Facilities Management

Listed Buildings

Building Passport

Maintenance

Support

Historical Buildings

Facilities Management

Shared Repairs

Older building specialists

We work almost entirely on Edinburgh's stone tenements, townhouses, listed properties, and hotels. The external fabric of older buildings is what we know best.

Rope access delivery

Most jobs need no scaffold, which keeps streets clear, residents undisturbed, and timelines short. It ensures we keep a minimal ground and zero carbon footprint

Digital record included

Every maintained building gets its own Building Passport — a live record of what's been inspected, what's been done, and what needs watching.

Referral-driven

Most new clients come through someone we already work for. It's the clearest signal that the work and the relationship are both holding up.

OUR STORY

We maintain your buildings, and the relationships around them.

SAT is an Edinburgh specialist maintaining tenements, townhouses, listed buildings, and hotels. We differentiate through long-term relationships with the buildings we look after — and the digital record platform we built ourselves to support that work. Most new clients come to us through referrals from the ones we already have.

Specialist, not general

We focus narrowly on the external fabric of Edinburgh's older buildings. It's all we do.

Built to be referred

We work as though the next job depends on this one being done well, because it usually does

To be Edinburgh’s default specialist for the external fabric of older buildings, with a digital record worth keeping on every property we maintain.

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To care for Edinburgh’s older buildings through honest, specialist work — and to give owners and factors the relief of knowing their property is in steady hands.

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Honesty over polish. Long relationships over fast jobs. Specialist depth over broad coverage. Documentation as standard, not as an extra.

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Vision

To be Edinburgh’s default specialist for the external fabric of older buildings, with a digital record worth keeping on every property we maintain.

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Mission

To care for Edinburgh’s older buildings through honest, specialist work — and to give owners and factors the relief of knowing their property is in steady hands.

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Values

Honesty over polish. Long relationships over fast jobs. Specialist depth over broad coverage. Documentation as standard, not as an extra.

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Our Services

Our Work, in Four Parts

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Active Properties

75 %

Referral Work

Years Specialising

IRATA Technicians

How We Work

Committed to the buildings, not just the jobs.

Specialist work on older buildings demands more than turning up with rope and a quote. It needs people who know what stone is failing and why, what a roof has already been through, and what to leave alone. We work slowly enough to get that right — and document it properly so the next job builds on the last.

Specialist focus

Older buildings, with the depth they need.

Honest assessment

If it doesn't need doing, we say so.

Recurring care

Most clients come back. We plan for that.

Documented work

Every job recorded in Building Passport.

HOW WE WORK

Our Simple 3 Step Process

Assess

We come out and look properly. You get an honest read on what's needed, what isn't, and what can wait.

Deliver

The work gets done by specialists, on rope, with as little disruption as the building allows. Recorded as we go.

Maintain

Most buildings need ongoing care, not a one-off fix. We stay with the building — and the record stays with you.

Where We Work

Edinburgh's Buildings Are What We Know

We work on the same types of buildings every day. Tenements, townhouses, listed buildings, and hotels across Edinburgh and the Lothians. We understand the stone, the roof details, the drainage systems, and the common problems that come with older construction. That familiarity means better decisions on site, fewer surprises, and work that lasts because it's done with the building in mind, not just the defect in front of us.

Every building we maintain gets its own Building Passport. A live digital record of every inspection, repair, and defect. It stays with the building, not with us, and it means nothing gets forgotten between visits.

Reviews

SAT undertook repair work to drainpipes and guttering on our tenement flat. The work was carried out professionally, on schedule and at a reasonable price. SAT owner Chris (director) was really helpful and great communication at every stage. Happy to use SAT again and recommend to others.

Steve Clark

Edinburgh, Tenement

I have recently used Specialist Access Technicians to do work on the roof of a building in Edinburgh's New Town. We needed to get the gutters cleaned and additional maintenance done to the roof. I found Chris very professional and easy to deal with. He provided excellent and detailed reports which made it much easier to get agreement from the other flat owners. He did the work on time and to budget. I will use the company again and can recommend their services.

Graham Marsden

Software Tester

SAT completed a thorough and extensive roof inspection for us. He produced a well presented detailed but understandable report. Professional in every way. Highly recommended.