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Landlord annual maintenance calendar — how do you actually schedule a Dubai property's upkeep across the year?

Faisal M.HomeownerLandlordAsked 4 Aug 2026100 views

I've got a couple of properties and my maintenance is basically reactive, I fix things when a tenant complains, which always seems to cost more and happen at the worst time. I'd like to get organised with an actual annual calendar so the upkeep is planned. What should a sensible year-round maintenance schedule for a Dubai property look like, and roughly when should each thing happen?

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DubaiFix Team
Staff4 Aug 2026

Moving from reactive to a simple seasonal calendar is the single best thing a landlord can do for both cost and the asset. A sensible Dubai year looks like: AC serviced in spring BEFORE summer and checked again AFTER it (the two highest-value AC visits); exterior, roof and waterproofing checked post-summer and before any cooler-month rain; plumbing (leaks, water heater, drains) and electrical (board, RCDs) checked once a year; water-tank cleaning per the required interval; and a documented inspection at every tenant change. The point is that planned work is cheaper and booked on your terms, while reactive work is premium-priced and always mid-crisis. Diarise the AC for roughly March and September, the exterior for October, and the annual plumbing/electrical whenever suits, then it just happens. The same before-and-after-summer logic as the best time to service an AC scales to the whole property, and a documented move-in and handover inspection at tenant changes protects your deposit position. A calendar turns surprise bills into planned, cheaper ones.

Maya T.
Homeowner4 Aug 2026

Switching to a calendar cut my emergency callouts right down. The AC-before-and-after-summer and the post-summer exterior check are the two that saved the most, both used to be reactive and expensive. Diarising it is the whole trick.

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