Specialist Building & Property Maintenance Services You Can Depend On.
LANDLORD MAINTENANCE — NORTH WALES, CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL
Landlord maintenance services
One contractor for your rented properties
Repairs, damp and mould, and fire doors for landlords and letting agents across North Wales, Cheshire and Wirral. Send us the address and a few photos and we take it from there.
5.0★★★★★Based on 150+ Google reviews
Trading since2008
£5 millionpublic liability insurance in place
Workmanship guarantee on completed worksOne contractorAll trades under one roof
In short: Quirks looks after rented houses, flats and HMOs for private landlords, portfolio landlords and letting agents. One contractor covers the building work, the damp and mould, the fire doors and the smoke and CO alarms, so you are not chasing four different trades for one property.
Reactive repairs and call-outs
Leaks, blocked drains, roof and gutter faults, broken doors and locks, storm damage and make-safe work, with 24-hour emergency call-outs when it cannot wait. Tenants can send us photos direct where you want them to, and you get the photos and the price before anything is done.
Damp, mould and condensation
We find the cause before we treat it: rising damp, penetrating damp, leaks, condensation and poor ventilation. Damp-proofing, replastering and ventilation work by our own damp-proofing operatives, with a written report where you need one for your records.
Fire doors in HMOs and flats
Fire door inspections, repairs and replacements for houses in multiple occupation and blocks of flats. Inspections are carried out by a FireQual Level 3 qualified fire door inspector, with a report you can hand to your council or managing agent.
Structural and external repairs
Cracked walls, lintels, bay windows, repointing, chimneys, roofs and gutters. The bigger jobs a handyman cannot take on, priced from photographs where we can and backed by an engineer’s specification where one is needed.
Who we work with
Private landlords with one or two properties
You want the fault fixed without having to be there. Send the address, the tenant’s number and a couple of photos. We arrange access with the tenant, send you the price, do the work and send you photographs of the finished job.
Portfolio landlords
One contractor for the lot. Repairs, damp, fire doors and safety checks across all your properties, with one invoice per job and one person to speak to. Twenty years of this kind of work across Flintshire, Chester, Wirral and Wrexham.
Letting agents and property managers
We can be set up as an approved contractor on your system. Public liability insurance details, company registration and our health and safety documents are supplied on request, and our operatives are DBS-checked. Jobs come in by email or WhatsApp with the property address and the fault, and we report back with photos when the work is done.
What we see in rented property around here
Most of the rented housing we work on is older stock. Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Chester, Wrexham and the Wirral towns, pre-war semis, solid-wall stone cottages in the Flintshire villages, and former council houses around Deeside and Connah’s Quay. They were not built with modern heating, insulation or ventilation in mind, and they are let to tenants who dry washing indoors and keep the windows shut in winter. The result is a call we get most weeks: black mould in a bedroom corner, a damp patch behind the sofa, a bay window dropping, a chimney breast that never dries out.
Student houses and HMOs in Chester and Wrexham add fire doors to the list. Councils expect them inspected and maintained, and a door that has been painted shut, had its closer removed or lost its strip and seal is a licensing problem as well as a safety one.
Coastal Wirral and the Dee estuary bring salt air and wind-driven rain, so we see more corroded ironmongery, failed pointing and penetrating damp on exposed elevations in Hoylake, West Kirby, Wallasey and along the Flint and Holywell coast than inland.
Damp, mould and Awaab’s Law
If a tenant reports damp or mould, the clock is now running. Awaab’s Law sets fixed timescales for social landlords in England to investigate and fix damp and mould hazards, and the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 is set to extend the same rules to private landlords. In Wales, rented homes already have to be fit to live in under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, and damp and mould are among the first things a council looks at.
Our own damp-proofing operatives find the cause — rising damp, penetrating damp, a leak or condensation — put it right and give you a written, dated report with photographs for your records, so you can show the complaint was investigated and dealt with properly.
Areas we cover
We look after rented property across North Wales, Cheshire and Wirral .
Flintshire and Deeside
Mold, Buckley, Connah’s Quay, Shotton, Queensferry, Hawarden, Ewloe, Flint, Holywell, Saltney — CH5, CH6, CH7, CH8, CH4 (Saltney)
Chester and Cheshire
Chester, Hoole, Handbridge, Blacon, Upton, Ellesmere Port, Neston, Frodsham, Helsby — CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, CH64, CH65, CH66
Wirral
Birkenhead, Wallasey, Heswall, West Kirby, Hoylake, Bebington, Bromborough, Moreton — CH41 to CH49, CH60 to CH63
Wrexham
Wrexham town, Gresford, Rossett, Llay, Rhos, Ruabon, Coedpoeth, Chirk — LL11, LL12, LL13, LL14
Denbighshire and Conwy
Rhyl, Prestatyn, St Asaph, Denbigh, Ruthin, Llangollen, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno, Abergele — LL15 to LL22, LL28 to LL30
Chester — rented Victorian terrace
Recent landlord project
A landlord asked us to look at a damp chimney breast in his rented Victorian terrace in Chester. Our survey recorded high moisture readings across the chimney breast, which had been dry-lined with plasterboard, and found ventilation in the kitchen was limited. We stripped the chimney breast back to the brickwork, treated it, lined it with a cavity-drain membrane and new plasterboard, vented the old flue and fitted a humidity-controlled extractor fan in the kitchen.
BeforeHigh readings on a dry-lined chimney breast
The chimney breast in the back room had been finished with plasterboard fixed on dabs of adhesive, and the moisture meter gave high readings across it.
Ventilation in the kitchen also appeared limited. The survey was non-invasive, so what sat behind the plasterboard could only be seen once it came off.
Back to the brickwork, treated and lined
With the floor protected, we took the plasterboard and plaster off the full height of the chimney breast and inspected the bare brickwork. Once the brickwork was exposed it was clear the vent on the wall had been fixed straight onto the plasterboard rather than venting into the flue, so the sealed flue had no ventilation and moisture and salts had been trapped in the brickwork. Three previous repairs by other contractors had treated the symptoms without finding this. A new chemical damp-proof course went in, with a liquid damp-proof membrane below it carried down to the wall and floor junction.
We then fixed a 3mm studded cavity-drain membrane to the chimney breast with sealed fixings, boarded over it with 9.5mm plasterboard and kept the new finish clear of the floor so it cannot bridge moisture across.
Skimmed, vented and ready to decorate
The chimney breast was skimmed in two coats, a ventilation grille set into it so air can move through the old flue, and new skirting fitted to match. The surfaces were left to dry, ready for the landlord’s decorator.
In the kitchen we fitted a dMEV extractor fan, which runs continuously at a low level and boosts when humidity rises, ducted through the external wall to a weatherproof grille. The electrical connection was made and tested by a NAPIT registered electrician.
The works are complete. The new plaster needs to dry out fully before it is decorated, and decoration was left to the landlord. As with any damp treatment, the chimney breast should be watched through its first winter. Quirks carried out the damp treatment, plastering, joinery, flue ventilation and kitchen fan; decoration was by others.
- Damp survey with moisture readings
- Floor protection and skirting removed
- Chimney breast stripped back to the brickwork
- Chemical damp-proof course and liquid damp-proof membrane
- 3mm studded cavity-drain membrane and 9.5mm plasterboard
- Two-coat skim finish
- Ventilation grille to the redundant flue
- New skirting to match
- dMEV extractor fan in the kitchen, ducted through the external wall
- Electrical connection made and tested
Project Information
- Location
- Chester
- Property
- Victorian terrace, rented
- Client
- Landlord
- Problem
- Sealed flue with a dummy vent fixed to the plasterboard — no ventilation; moisture and salts trapped in the brickwork. Three previous repairs by other contractors had not found it.
- Works
- Damp treatment, cavity-drain membrane, replastering, flue ventilation and a kitchen dMEV fan
- Completed
- October 2026
- Decoration
- By others
Landlord safety checks
Landlords in both England and Wales have to provide a working smoke alarm on each storey, a carbon monoxide alarm in any room with a fuel-burning appliance, and an electrical installation condition report (EICR) at least every five years. The detail differs between the two countries — Wales, for example, requires mains-powered, interlinked smoke alarms under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 — and HMOs carry extra fire safety conditions set by the licensing council.
What we can do on one visit:
- Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms fitted, tested and replaced, interlinked where the rules call for it
- Electrical installation condition report (EICR) and any remedial work, carried out by a NAPIT registered electrician
- Fire door inspection with a written report, by a FireQual Level 3 qualified inspector, and the repairs that follow
- Emergency lighting and fire door checks in HMO common areas
We do not provide gas safety certificates. We will tell you what the regulations require where we can, but this page is not legal advice — your council’s private sector housing team or Rent Smart Wales will confirm what applies to your property.
Recent work for landlords
Flat entrance fire door replaced — rented flat, Bromborough
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Front door locks and handles — rented flat, Wrexham
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Damp proofing and floor renewal — house in Chester
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What customers say
★★★★★5.0 · 150+ Google reviews★★★★★“Michael and his team were exceptional in all the work that needed to be done on my property - always available, communication outstanding and kept me up to date. I would not hesitate to use again and they have my highest recommendation.
Thank you Michael and Team.”
a year ago
★★★★★“Fantastic work carried out by Mike and his team at two properties. Communication is excellent and all the work has been carried out to a high standard. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Quirks Property Maintenance.”
7 years ago
★★★★★“Hi Michael
Thank you so much for doing such a professional job. I have no problem recommending you and the rest of your workforce.
Right from the original quote until the completion, you were friendly and nothing was too much trouble.
You actually left my son’s flat cleaner and neater than before you started.
David Nield”
5 years ago
How it works
Send us a photo, we’ll take it from there
You don’t need to describe the problem down the phone. A photo tells us most of what we need.
- 1WhatsApp or email us photos.A couple of pictures of the problem and your postcode.
- 2We reply with what it looks like and what happens next.Where the photos show enough, that’s a price. If not, we’ll tell you what else we need.
- 3You get a written quotation.A clear scope of works, so you know what is included.
- 4We do the work and leave it clean.
Your questions
Frequently asked questions
Do you work directly with tenants?
Yes, where you want us to. Tenants can send us photos and arrange access directly, which saves you being in the middle. Quotations, approvals and invoices always go to you or your agent, never to the tenant.
How much does landlord maintenance cost?
It depends on the job: the size of the repair, whether the cause has to be found first (damp and leaks especially), access, and whether an engineer’s specification is needed for structural work. We do not charge a retainer or a monthly fee — you pay per job. Most jobs we can price from photographs — send yours on WhatsApp or by email and we’ll come back with a written quotation.
Can you be our approved contractor?
Yes. Letting agents and property managers can set us up on their systems. We supply our public liability insurance details, company registration, health and safety policy and risk assessments on request.
Do you cover HMOs and student lets?
Yes. HMOs are a regular part of our work in Chester and Wrexham: fire doors, emergency lighting checks, damp and mould, and the general repairs that come with shared houses.
What about damp and mould complaints from tenants?
Treat them as urgent. Councils in England and Wales expect landlords to investigate and deal with damp and mould within set timescales, and the rules have tightened under Awaab’s Law. We find the cause, put it right and give you a written report of what was done.
Which repairs am I responsible for as a landlord?
Broadly, the structure and exterior — walls, roof, gutters, windows and doors — plus drains and pipes, chimneys, the electrics, heating and hot water, and damp and mould where the building is the cause. In England this is section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985; in Wales the same duties sit in the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016. You cannot pass these on to the tenant in the agreement, and the duty runs from the moment you know about the fault. That is why we let tenants send us photos direct: the sooner a fault is reported, the cheaper it is to put right.
Do you offer 24-hour emergency call-outs?
Yes, across all trades: burst pipes, storm damage, roof leaks, blocked drains, break-ins and boarding up. WhatsApp is the quickest way to reach us at any hour — send the address and a photo and we will come back to you. Anything that can wait until morning, we price from photographs as normal.
Do you do gas safety certificates?
No. We can fit and test smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, arrange an EICR through a NAPIT registered electrician and inspect fire doors, but gas safety checks are not something we offer.
Do you offer a maintenance contract?
We work job by job rather than on a retainer. Most landlords and agents simply send each fault to us as it comes in. If you have a portfolio and want a standing arrangement, email us and we will talk it through.
Written and reviewed by Michael Quirk, Director.
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Property repairs for landlords and letting agents — send us a photo.
From emergency repairs and damp problems to fire doors and general property maintenance, for landlords, letting agents and property managers across North Wales, Cheshire and Wirral.
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