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OUR SERVICES
Inspections and maintenance, done properly.
We work on Edinburgh's older buildings — tenements, townhouses, listed properties, and hotels. Two disciplines, kept separate and priced separately: inspections that tell you honestly what your building needs, and specialist maintenance that keeps it sound over time.
Detailed and thorough visual and physical building inspections
Specialist, not general
Our depth is in older buildings — tenements, townhouses, listed properties, and hotels.
Honest assessment
If something doesn't need doing, we say so. The inspection is its own discipline.
Recorded as standard
Every maintained building gets a Building Passport. The work, documented.
How our services work
Two disciplines, kept separate.
Inspections and maintenance are different jobs. An inspection tells you honestly what your building needs and what can wait. Maintenance is the specialist work that keeps a building sound over time.
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Inspections priced as their own work
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Specialist trades, utilized in-house
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Rope access where it suits the job
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Documented in Building Passport
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Clients referred
What we do
The full picture, in five parts
Two flagship disciplines, plus the platform and methodology that sit alongside them.
How It All Connects
Inspections Find It. Maintenance Fixes It. Building Passport Records It
Most building maintenance companies offer inspections or repairs as separate, disconnected services. We built SAT so that everything connects.
An inspection identifies a defect. That defect is logged, graded, and tracked. When the repair is carried out, it's recorded against the same item. Over time, your building develops a complete, verifiable maintenance history.
Not a drawer full of unrelated reports from different contractors.
That's the difference between reactive work and proper long-term care. And it's why our clients stay.
Who we work with
The buildings and people we look after.
Most of our work is with property factors, owners' associations, and hotel operators. The people responsible for keeping older buildings sound over time. Individual owners are also supported
Included Free
Every Building We Work On Gets Its Own Passport
Building Passport is the digital record we create for every building we maintain.
Every inspection, every repair, every defect, logged, photographed, and tracked in one place. Owners, factors, and operators can all see the same picture. No chasing reports, no missing paperwork, no starting from scratch when something changes.
It's included free with every building we look after. No extra cost, no separate contract.
Common questions
Things people usually ask.
If something isn't covered here, just get in touch.
Do you work on listed buildings?
Yes. Listed buildings need careful handling — the right materials, the right approach, and an awareness of what Historic Environment Scotland expects. We’re familiar with that territory.
Do I need scaffolding?
Most jobs don’t. We deliver the majority of our work on rope access, which means no scaffold, less disruption, and faster turnaround. Where scaffold genuinely suits the job better, we’ll say so.
What's included in Building Passport?
Building Passport is a live digital record of your property — inspections, repairs, defects, and monitoring, all in one place. It’s included as standard for every building we maintain. You and your factor can access it directly.
Can you work with our property factor?
Yes — we work alongside factors regularly. If you’re an owner and your factor manages common repairs, we’re set up to deal with both. If you’re a factor looking for a specialist contractor, get in touch directly.
Do you only do one-off jobs or ongoing maintenance?
Both — but most clients move toward ongoing care once the first job is done. We’re set up for long-term relationships with buildings, not just individual repairs.
What Clients Say
In Their Words
We love hearing what our clients have to say about our work and standards
Really pleased with the service from SAT, they did a variety of maintenance and repair works on the roof & masonry of our building. Would recommend SAT. Stepped in with direction.
Dave
Edinburgh Tenement
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.
Steve Clark
Edinburgh Tenement
Chris completed a thorough and extensive roof inspection for us. He produced a well presented detailed but understandable report. Professional in every way. Highly recommend
Kevin Hodgson
Edinburgh Tenement
From the work
Field notes
Observations from looking after Edinburgh's older buildings.
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What we look after
Every part of an older building
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We track all items
Click on a pin to see some of the items we track
Phone
0131 210 0197
Rainwater Systems
We check: Gutters, Downpipes, Joints, Seals, Hangers, Brackets, Surfaces
Rainwater Systems
We check: Gutters, Downpipes, Joints, Seals, Hangers, Brackets, Surfaces
Chimneys
We check: Pots, cope stones, haunching, chimney breast and throat, stonework, mortar joints, flashings and soakers
Chimneys
We check: Pots, cope stones, haunching, chimney breast and throat, stonework, mortar joints, flashings and soakers
Roof Covering
We check: Slipped/missing slates, Ridges, Ridge tiles and joints, Abutments and Skews
Roof Covering
We check: Slipped/missing slates, Ridges, Ridge tiles and joints, Abutments and Skews
Stonework
We check: Surfaces, Spalling, Lamination, Loose stonework, Mortar joints, Cracks and deterioration
Stonework
We check: Surfaces, Spalling, Lamination, Loose stonework, Mortar joints, Cracks and deterioration
Inspections
SAT check every aspect and surface of the property. We do this visually and physically
Inspections
SAT check every aspect and surface of the property. We do this visually and physically