Apartments · Old Town · Complete Reforms
Complete renovations for Benidorm apartments and old town homes, planned around lifts, neighbours and the realities of a tall building.
Benidorm is built upwards. Most of the properties we are asked to renovate here are apartments in high-rise blocks, with a smaller number of older homes in the streets of the old town. That tells you almost everything about how a job in Benidorm is run: the property is a single floor or a part of one, the building is shared with dozens of other households, and the way you get materials in and rubble out matters as much as the work itself.
Many of these flats are holiday homes or long-term rentals that have been lightly furnished and rarely updated. Owners come to us when the kitchen has given up, when the bathroom is dated or leaking, when the wiring is clearly from another era, or when they want a flat that suits how they actually use it. A full reform often turns out to be a better answer than a string of small repairs.
We deal with all of the trades: design, building work, plumbing, electrics, plastering, painting, tiling, windows and doors and air conditioning, with the work coordinated as one project.
Working in a tall building
The first practical question in a Benidorm flat is access. How big is the lift, are there restrictions on when it can be used for materials, and where can a skip or a delivery van stand? We ask these questions at the start rather than discovering the answers on the first morning. Communities differ, and many have their own rules about working hours and about protecting common areas.
Noise and vibration are the other consideration. Floors and ceilings are shared with the neighbours, so we plan the loudest tasks, such as demolition and removing old tiling, for the early part of the programme and keep them contained. Good planning here keeps the relationship with the rest of the block intact, which matters if you are going to own the flat for years.
Because everything has to travel through the building, we also try to reduce the number of trips. Materials are scheduled to arrive when they are needed, not all at once, and waste is cleared regularly so common areas are left as we found them.
Making the space work
Benidorm apartments tend to be compact, which makes layout the most valuable part of a reform. Opening a closed kitchen into the living room, replacing a bath with a proper shower, or turning a dark corridor into storage can change how a small flat feels without adding a square metre.
Kitchens and bathrooms carry the heaviest work in an apartment, since they hold the pipework, the extraction and most of the electrics. Because we handle the plumbing and electrics ourselves, the sequence is simple: services are put in, walls are closed and plastered, and only then do tiles and fittings go on.
We often find that older flats have pipes running through the walls in ways nobody recorded. Opening the walls for a reform is the moment to renew them, so the new kitchen is not sitting on forty-year-old plumbing.
The old town
Away from the high-rise blocks, the old town has older, lower buildings with thicker walls and narrower streets. A reform there looks more like a town house renovation than an apartment one, with a different set of questions about structure, damp in older masonry and how the building is reached.
Access in narrow streets is the main logistical issue, and we plan deliveries and waste removal accordingly. Inside, the work is often about modernising services while keeping what is sound, so the home is comfortable without losing its character.
Whether the property is a flat on the fifteenth floor or a house in the old town, we assess it honestly before we put figures on paper.
How it works
We visit the property, or hold a video call if you are abroad, check access and building rules with you, and put the scope and quotation in writing. The quotation is free.
Work then follows the usual order: demolition, first fix of plumbing and electrics, plastering, tiling and fitting, then final painting and a handover. Owners abroad receive photographs and updates by phone throughout, and we speak English and Spanish.
Questions
Yes, it is most of our work in Benidorm. We check lift access, working hours and community rules at the start and plan deliveries and waste removal around them.
Yes. Both are done by us as part of the renovation, so the services are renewed and tested before walls are closed and tiled.
Yes. We send photographs, call you with updates and flag decisions in good time, so you can follow the work from the UK, Scandinavia, the Netherlands or Germany.
No. Apartments are the most common job, but we also renovate older houses in the old town. The quotation is free in either case.
Across the area
Benidorm is one of the towns with its own property renovations page. The main Property Renovations Costa Blanca page covers the whole service in full.
Careful reforms of hillside old town houses and coastal villas, run as one project.
View Altea →Villa and urbanisation reforms on inland hillside plots, from terraces to full overhauls.
View La Nucía →Hillside villa reforms that keep the view and deal with sun, slopes and terraces.
View Finestrat →Reforms of sea-facing apartments and hillside villas under the Peñón de Ifach.
View Calpe →Apartment and hillside villa reforms between the Albir seafront and Alfaz del Pi.
View Alfaz del Pi & Albir →Village house and hillside villa reforms in Polop, built for year-round comfort.
View Polop →Reforms of old town houses, country fincas and coastal villas in Benissa.
View Benissa →Get in touch
Tell us about the flat or house and what you would like done. We will arrange a visit or video call and give you a written quotation, which is free.
Our work is guaranteed, and the scope of the guarantee is set out in the quotation.
Customer reviews
Genuine Google reviews from Dragon Reforms customers.
Two-Bedroom Apartment Renovation – Benidorm
“We would like to say thank you to Nico and the team at Dragonreforms for an excellent job in renovating our two bedroom apartment in Benidorm very clean and punctual and everything we asked for was done without any problems, excellent project management so no worries all aspects of work were communicated to us as we were in the UK, could not ask for more.”
Complete Apartment Renovation – Benidorm
“I would like to say a huge thank you to Dragonreforms. Nico and his team did an excellent job renovating our 2 bedroom apartment in Benidorm. This included a beautiful new bathroom, kitchen, flooring, interior doors, plumbing and complete electrical works. Truly amazing workmanship. You have made our dreams come true.”
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