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Service guides for Dubai homes

Three jobs where knowing how the city works saves more than shopping around does: what your building will let a contractor do, which paperwork has to be in order first, and what a good job includes that a cheap one leaves out.

AC maintenance in Dubai

Almost every complaint about air conditioning in Dubai is one of three things: it is not cold, it smells, or there is a brown stain spreading across the ceiling below it. All three usually come from the same neglected parts, and none of them needs a new unit.

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End of tenancy cleaning in Dubai

A move-out clean is not a clean you buy for yourself. It is bought for the person who walks the flat after you have gone, with a list, deciding what to take off your deposit. Everything about how you buy it should follow from that.

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Furniture assembly in Dubai

Assembling furniture is the easy part. In a Dubai tower the hard parts are getting the boxes upstairs, and fixing anything tall to a wall that may not be what it looks like.

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Know what it should cost, too

The price guides collect what providers advertise across the UAE — call-out fees, hourly rates and typical job prices — with the source behind every figure.