Landscaping & Outdoor Living

Outdoor space is where a Malta property is actually used for most of the year, and it is the part most often left until the money has run out. The irony is that the expensive elements are the ones that have to happen early — levels, drainage, irrigation and any structure — while the planting that people think of as landscaping is comparatively cheap and can wait.

Doing the buried work while the site is already open costs a fraction of retrofitting it through a finished terrace.

What this covers

• Terracing, levels and hard landscaping
• Planting schemes suited to the Maltese climate and exposure
• Irrigation, and the supply it needs run before paving
• Outdoor kitchens, pergolas and shade structures
• External lighting, coordinated with the electrical first fix

What it costs

Landscaping is priced from the site, not from the property's floor area — the same villa can have a courtyard or a terraced hillside, and no per-square-metre figure covers both.

We do not publish a rate for this one. It is not priced per square metre in any way that would survive contact with a real property, and a number we cannot stand behind is worse than no number. It is quoted after the survey, itemised, before anything starts.

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How it works

We survey every job ourselves, free. Then we either take it on as your contractor — we quote a fixed price, bring in the landscapers from the CheckYourTraders-verified network and manage the sequencing around every other trade on site — or introduce a vetted partner contractor who quotes and contracts with you directly. Either way you have one point of contact with us from survey to handover.

Questions people ask

Is landscaping in the budget calculator?

Not as landscaping. The calculator carries an external works line for villas above the Basic tier, which covers the hard external finishing rather than a full landscape scheme. Anything beyond that is quoted from the site.

What has to be decided early?

Levels, drainage, irrigation supply and any electrical runs. All of them are buried, all of them are cheap while the ground is open and expensive afterwards. Planting can genuinely wait.

Can you landscape around an existing pool?

Yes. Where it gets complicated is drainage and where the plant room sits, which is why it is worth looking at both together even if the work happens in stages.

More of what we cover

• Shell Form Fit-OutFrom bare concrete to a finished home — every trade in sequence.
• Pool BuildersIn-ground concrete pools for villas, terrace pools for apartments.
• Builders & StructuralStructural alterations, openings and the works that need a perit.

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