Property care in Brela

In season

On a steep slope, retaining walls, steps and drainage are the permanent themes. Add the pines: needles block gutters and pool filters reliably, and we clean both at shorter intervals than elsewhere. The pines do something else that is easy to miss until it has happened. Resin falls on garden furniture, sunshades and pool covers through the warm months and hardens into a film that no longer comes off with water, so we cover or move what sits under a crown and treat what has been marked while it is still soft. The access tracks up the slope are the other recurring subject. They are narrow and they wash out, and a tradesman who cannot get a van up is a repair that waits.

Out of season

Biokovo rises steeply behind the beach and the pine comes right down to it, which shelters the village from the north but drops needles into every gutter and roof valley. Clearing them before the autumn rain is the single most useful thing done here all year. The access roads up the slope deserve as much attention as the house. Several are unmade and wash out in a wet winter, which decides whether a tradesman gets up there at all. On the older hillside villas it is also worth knowing exactly what was built with permission and what was added later, because that determines what can legally be repaired and how.

Properties in the surrounding area are visited on the same round. If your house sits between two of these places, just ask, the boundary is not the town sign.

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