Metalwork & welding
Cerrajería · SoldaduraRailings, stairs, gates, canopies, grilles. Steel, stainless steel and aluminium. Designed, welded, coated, installed.
Aigües · Costa Blanca
A tradesmanwho calls back.
Metalwork, glazing and everything else around the house, carried out by a German master metalworker on the Costa Blanca. Fixed appointments, clear prices, clean work.
- Service area
- Aigües
- Busot
- El Campello
- Alicante
- San Juan
- Mutxamel
- Villajoyosa
- Benidorm
- Altea
- San Miguel de Salinas
- Torrevieja
Services
Everything from one hand
Instead of coordinating five trades, you make one call. From a welded railing to a new terrace enclosure. GEMS handles what needs doing. We give the Spanish term too: useful when you talk to neighbours, the town hall or a supplier.
Glazing & windows
Cerramientos · VentanasEnclosing terraces, replacing windows and doors. A draughty terrace becomes a room you can use all year.
Insect screens
MosquiterasFixed frames, sliding and roller screens for windows and doors. Made to measure, so you can leave the light on in the evening.
Shutters & sun protection
Persianas · ToldosRepairing or replacing shutters, fitting awnings and canopies. Motorised too, when the crank has had enough.
Masonry & rendering
Albañilería · EnfoscadoWalls, openings, repairs, rendering inside and out. Including the small jobs nobody else turns up for.
Tiling & floors
Alicatado · SoladosBathrooms, terraces, stairs and pool surrounds. Newly laid or restored, with clean joints and a fall that actually works.
Painting
PinturaFaçades, interiors, metal coatings. Preparation included, so the paint survives the next summer.
Plumbing & pipework
FontaneríaFinding and fixing burst pipes, new runs, cisterns and pumps. Including digging it open and closing it up afterwards.
Excavation
ExcavaciónWith our own mini digger: trenches, foundations, cisterns, clearing plots. Including where a full-size machine cannot reach.
Garden & grounds
JardineríaWeeding, cutting back, paths, irrigation. Also on a regular basis for owners who are not here all year.
Carpentry
CarpinteríaWood made to measure: doors, fitted units, decking, furniture. Combined with steel if you like. That is our speciality.
Pool renovation
Rehabilitación de piscinasSealing, re-tiling, renewing fittings and surrounds. From an empty shell back to the first dive.
Core trade
Metalwork is the craft behind it
Before GEMS looked after whole houses on the Costa Blanca, it built stairs, railings and façades in Germany: for new builds, apartment blocks and commercial projects. That standard goes into every railing fitted here.
Stairwell · glass balustrades
External stairs · apartment block
Spiral stair · steel
Interior railing · stainless steel
Canopy · glass and steelEngineering
Calculated before it is welded
Every railing and stair is engineered before the first cut: bearings, loads, fixings into existing structure. That is why it fits on installation day and still does not wobble in ten years.
Made to measure
Not one metre off the shelf
Old buildings are never square. We measure on site, build in the workshop and adjust on installation. Catalogue parts help nobody here.
Material
Salt eats anything cheap
Five kilometres from the sea, the material decides the lifespan. Stainless, hot-dip galvanised or powder-coated. Chosen for the location, not for the lowest quote.
Finish
The weld shows
A ground weld seam is the difference between a component and craftsmanship. Edges deburred, transitions clean, surfaces even, including where nobody looks.
Installation
And by evening it is watertight
Installation happens on the agreed day, with our own tools and our own van. The site is left swept. That is part of the job too.
Before / after
A pool in Aigües
The shell leaked, the tiles were coming off, the plant was finished. Six weeks later: resealed, completely re-tiled, fittings and surround replaced. Drag the slider.
March · beforeApril · afterSix weeks and one completely stripped shell lie between these two photographs. Carried out throughout by our own crew, no subcontractor, no standstill.
12trades from one handone point of contact
3languages on the phoneDE · EN · ES
80 kmworking radiusall of the Costa Blanca
13years as a master metalworkerHWK Dortmund, 2013
Projects on the Costa Blanca
What we build here
A cross-section of recent years, apartments in Alicante, villas inland, holiday homes on the coast.
Terrace enclosure
Terrace turned into living space
Open terrace closed with sliding aluminium units, base tiled and rendered. Usable in January and in an easterly wind.
Windows & doors
Gallery of a city apartment
Entire window front replaced, in an occupied flat, in stages, with a crane in the street. By evening the flat was watertight again.
Excavation
Cistern and supply line
Trench through the olive grove, cistern set, line laid and everything closed up. With our own mini digger, no subcontractor.
Interior fit-out
A bathroom from scratch
Tiling, plumbing, window and connections from one hand. One contact instead of five tradesmen with five appointments.
Metalwork
Gate made to measure
Measured on site, built in the workshop, powder-coated, installed. Nothing off the shelf, everything to size.
Enclosure
Terrace with a view of palms
Frameless sliding glazing across the full width. Open in summer, closed in winter, and the view survives both.
GEMS Signature
When steel stops being a component
Chain links, bolts and old olive wood become one-off pieces, seating, bowls, sculptures. Made to your idea on request.
From the workshop
Offcuts turned into something whole
A mount for a punchbag, built from what was left over after other jobs. Tim films his work himself and shows how a piece like this comes together.
The video only loads once you start it. Nothing is sent to YouTube before that.
About GEMS
Tim Kluge
A German master metalworker, at home on the Costa Blanca for years, and reachable where his clients live.
Anyone who owns a house here knows the problem: you find someone, and he might turn up. Or he turns up, speaks neither German nor English, and what ends up on the invoice was never discussed. GEMS does it differently, date, price and scope are agreed beforehand, in your language, and then the work gets done.
Tim passed the master craftsman examination in metalwork before the Dortmund Chamber of Crafts in 2013. Spain has no equivalent to this qualification, in the European Qualifications Framework it sits at level 6, the same tier as a bachelor’s degree. For you it mainly means this: structural design, choice of material and workmanship come from someone who was taught and examined in them.
The craft at the core is metalwork. Everything else follows from the fact that a house rarely needs just one thing: whoever fits the railing can also build the base, glaze the terrace and dig the trench. For larger jobs, trusted subcontractors join in, the responsibility stays with GEMS.
Working for private owners, holiday-home owners and property managers, in German, English and Spanish.
Master MetalworkerChamber of Crafts Dortmund · 2013 · EQF level 6
- Based in
- Calle Maestro Vicente García 16
03569 Aigües, Alicante - Area
- All of the Costa Blanca
- Languages
- Deutsch · English · Español
- Business
- Autónomo, with subcontractors
- Trade
- Metalwork & welding
- Qualification
- Master Metalworker, HWK Dortmund
- Equipment
- Own mini digger and workshop
Contact
Tell us what needs doing
WhatsApp to +34 673 171 001 is quickest, send a photo of the job and Tim can usually tell you straight away what we are looking at. Enquiries in German, English or Spanish.
WhatsApp+34 673 171 001Phone+34 673 171 001EmailGEMS_Solutions@gmx.esInstagram@gems_solutions
WorkshopCalle Maestro Vicente García 16
03569 Aigües, Alicante
03569 Aigües, Alicante
Enquiry form
A short form goes here later: name, contact, town, trade, description, photo attachment. The enquiry lands straight in Tim’s inbox. A service like Formspree is enough for a static site, no server needed.