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Home & Property

560 active businesses74 niches across 33 sectors

Five hundred and thirty-one home-and-property firms across thirty-three sub-sectors — 83 builders, 74 landscapers, 63 electricians, 51 plumbers and heating engineers, 40 apiece in cleaning, renovations, and decorating. A renewables cohort crosses three sub-sectors: 9 solar-PV and 9 EV-charger installers, plus 10 renewables plumbers. —

Founded between 1646 and 2026

208 of 560 have a recorded year
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  • Building & Construction31
  • Landscaping & Gardens27
  • Electricians23
  • Property Management20
  • Cleaning Services19
  • Interior Design16
  • Other (17)72

Where they're based

549 of 560 in Guernsey
St Peter Port133
Vale108
St Sampson84
St Martin45
38
25
Other parishes (4)57
Island-wide59

549 in Guernsey · 10 on Alderney · 1 on Sark

Accreditations & memberships

175 of 560 hold ≥1
  • GBTEA41
  • Guernsey Chamber of Commerce35
  • City and Guilds12
  • RICS member8
  • RICS Regulated8
  • Electric Living Installer7
  • ISO 90017
  • NICEIC Approved Contractor7

↓ and 41 more accreditations carried across the sector.

Building & Construction

87
10 niches

Eighty-three firms — mostly limited-company main contractors; the oldest, C.A. Duquemin, has been building since 1924.

Landscaping & Gardens

75
11 niches

Seventy-four firms, weighted toward maintenance generalists — with clusters of 22 in fencing, 20 landscape gardeners, and 16 tree surgeons.

Electricians

65
9 niches

Sixty-three firms — a renewables cluster around solar PV (9), EV chargers (9) and heat pumps (7) sits alongside the traditional installers.

Plumbers & Heating Engineers

52
4 niches

Fifty-one firms — 28 limited companies, 12 sole traders — with a ten-firm renewables cohort inside a plumbing and central-heating core.

Cleaning Services

44
8 niches

Forty firms — half offering window cleaning — anchored by AFM's 400-staff facilities operation running since 1964.

Painters & Decorators

41
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Forty painting and decorating firms — only 13 list painting against 26 for decorating; strong overlap into tiling and plastering.

Renovations

41
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Forty firms — half claim renovation as their specialty, 14 extensions, 11 decorators — and the oldest, C.A. Duquemin, dates to 1924.

Carpenters & Joiners

37
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Thirty-two firms — most blur joiner and builder, with 14 listing general building alongside joinery (12) and carpentry (11).

Interior Design

33
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Twenty-eight firms — interior studios alongside ten architecture practices and a kitchen-design cluster of nine.

Property Management

30
4 niches

Twenty-eight firms — estate agencies leading lettings and management, with a facilities-management cluster including 400-staff AFM.

Home Furnishings

27
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Twenty-four of the 515 Home & Property firms supply home furnishings — twelve fit kitchens, ten fit bedrooms, eight design interiors.

Roofers

26
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Twenty-six roofers — flat-roofing the dominant specialism (11 firms), with strong leadwork (8) and GRP fibreglass (9) clusters.

Windows & Doors

20
1 niche

Nineteen firms — over half in Vale and St Sampson, weighted toward external doors (9) with timber, uPVC, and garage-door cohorts.

Removals & Storage

19
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Eighteen firms split between removals and document storage — Pickfords (1646) to a 2015 newcomer, half in St Peter Port.

Stonemasons & Masonry

17
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Sixteen stonemasons — weighted toward patio paving (8) and stone restoration (5), the oldest trading since 1982.

Tiling

16
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Sixteen firms — eight tiling specialists, eight general builders adding tiling alongside plastering, painting, and roofing.

Upholstery & Soft Furnishings

16
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Fifteen firms — curtains (10) and blinds (9) dominate, with a smaller upholstery cohort. Six trade from St Sampson.

Flooring

15
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Fourteen flooring firms — carpet-and-vinyl retailers concentrated in St Peter Port (6) and Vale (4), oldest trading since 1952.

Plastering & Rendering

14
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Fourteen firms — twelve doing plastering, with secondary clusters in drylining (6), rendering (5), and external wall insulation (4).

Property Maintenance & Handyman

11
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Eleven firms — mostly sole traders, painter-decorators doubling as handymen, with a small roofing-and-guttering sub-cluster.

Surveying

9
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Eight surveying practices — four chartered building surveyors, two full-service agencies, and two specialists in damp and asbestos.

Insulation

8
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Eight firms — only one trades under the insulation name; the other seven reach the work through plastering and roofing trades.

Security & Alarms

8
1 niche

Eight firms — four locksmiths, three garage-door and gate specialists, and one SIA-licensed manned security and alarms outfit.

Fireplaces, Stoves & Chimney Services

6
Featured

Six firms — three chimney sweeps, two plumbing-and-heating outfits who also fit stoves, and Guernsey's 60-year-old coal merchant.

Home Appliances

6
1 niche

Five firms — two white-goods retailers, a bespoke-kitchen showroom, an appliance-repair service, and a sewing-machine shop.

Laundry & Dry Cleaning

6
Featured

Five firms — three under the Arrowsmith Marlowe group (trading since the 1930s), plus Iron Maiden and Express Laundry as independents.

Pool & Spa Services

4
Featured

Four firms on the island: two full-service pool builders led by 37- and 20-year veterans, plus two sole-trader maintenance operators.

Asbestos Removal

3
Stub

Three firms — ASR Limited licensed Channel-Islands-wide, AC Limited the only Safestrip-trained Guernsey firm, and Asbestos Surveying Limited.

HVAC, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration

3
2 niches

Three firms cover refrigerant and air-handling — Sarnia (1990) for refrigeration, RefCo (1998) for M&E, Alpha (2002) for AC and heat pumps.

Pest Control

3
Stub

Three firms — a BPCA-certified generalist, a sole-operator on the States invasive-species contract, and a limited company.

Scaffolding

3
Stub

Three firms — two scaffolders (Access Limited and Apex Scaffolding) and Edge Protection Systems, a working-at-height specialist.

Stairlifts Home Lifts

2
Stub

Ironing Services

1
Stub

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