One request. The right trade.
Tell us what needs doing.
We'll find who does it.
Every trade on Santorini, from one request. Free to use. We don't do the work — we know who does.
What it takes to build one
1/6 · Ground
- Surveyor
- Excavation
- Mason
- Scaffolder
- Stonework
- Plasterer
- Carpenter
- Glazier
- Painter
- Waterproofing
- Electrician
- Plumber
- Tiler
- Air conditioning
Twenty-six trades touch a building like this. You only need one phone number.
Short answer
Construction Santorini is a free matching service. You describe the job — a leak, a rewire, a full renovation, a pergola that blew over — and we point you at the independent tradesperson on the island who handles that work. You deal with them directly. We do not do the work ourselves, and we do not charge you for the introduction.
What's the problem?
Describe it the way you'd say it out loud
You don't need to know whether it's a plumber or a waterproofer. That's the part we're for. Here is what people actually write, and where it goes.
- Water coming through the bedroom ceiling Waterproofing
- The power keeps tripping when it rains Electrician
- No hot water, and the tank is on the roof Solar & heaters
- Air conditioning died and we have guests Air conditioning
- Damp patch spreading on an inside wall Cave-house work
- Drain backing up in the shower Septic & drainage
- A crack has opened above the door Structural
- Locked out, key snapped in the door Locksmith
- Pool has gone green in three days Pool maintenance
- Wind took the pergola apart overnight Pergolas & shading
- Ants in the kitchen, every summer Pest control
- A dozen small things before the season Handyman
How it works
Three steps. No phone tree.
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You describe the job
One form, about two minutes. Plain words are better than trade words — "water coming through the bedroom ceiling" tells us more than "roofing". Photos help and are never required.
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We work out who's right
Right trade, and right for where you are — a job in Oia with no vehicle access needs someone who already works that way. If two trades are involved we tell you which one to start with.
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They contact you directly
You agree the price and the timing with them, not with us. We're not in the middle of it, we take no cut of the job, and nothing about the arrangement passes through us.
The register
Twenty-seven trades on one island
From an emergency callout at midnight in August to a two-year cave-house restoration. Drag, or use the arrow keys.
Why this exists
Finding someone here is a navigation problem
On the mainland you search, you call three numbers, and one of them turns up. Here the good people are booked through a network you are not part of, half of them do not advertise at all, and the ones easiest to find online are frequently the ones with the most gaps in their calendar — which is not the recommendation it looks like.
So the usual advice is to ask a neighbour, which works if you have lived here for years and does not if you bought the house in March. Meanwhile the island runs on a season: between May and September every capable trade is committed, and between November and April half of them are on hotel refits.
This site is the shortcut. One request, read by someone who knows which of these people is free this week and which is worth waiting for. That is the whole service, and it is free because the tradespeople are the ones who benefit from a well-described job landing in front of them.
Need someone today?
Burst pipe, dead power, AC down in August
Some things cannot wait for a considered match. There is a faster path for those, with fewer questions and a shorter form.
For tradespeople
Work you didn't have to chase
If you work on the island and want described, qualified jobs sent to you rather than half a sentence on a Facebook group, there's a page for that.
Section A–A · the ground under all of it
Why a job here is not the same job on the mainland
Santorini is not rock with soil on top. It is a stack of eruption deposits, each behaving differently under a footing, a blade or a drill. Most of what makes work here slow, expensive or damp starts in one of these six layers — and it changes which trade you actually need. Take one.
| Layer | Depth | What it means for construction |
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| Lime render and wash | 0 – 40 mm | The thinnest layer causes the most argument. Traditional lime lets a wall dry outwards; modern acrylic paint does not. Repaint a breathing wall in plastic and the moisture stops at the film, freezes the surface off in flakes, and the owner blames the plasterer two winters later. Lime plaster and render. |
| Ash and pumice overburden | 0.5 – 8 m | Loose, light, and deceptively easy to dig — which is exactly the danger. It will not carry a spread footing without treatment, and an open trench in it collapses without warning. Depth to competent ground changes across a single plot, so the trial pit is not optional. Foundations in volcanic ground. |
| Welded tuff — the aspa | 2 – 30 m | The layer the island is famous for. Soft enough to cut with hand tools, strong enough to stand as an unsupported vault once the arch profile is right — this is what every cave house is carved into. Flatten the arch and it goes into tension, which tuff cannot do. Yposkafo excavation and vaulting. |
| Layered pyroclastics | 10 – 50 m | Bands of older eruption material with different strengths stacked against each other. Water perches on the boundaries between them and travels sideways, which is why damp on one side of a hill has its source somewhere else entirely. Excavation rates change layer by layer, so a price per m³ quoted without a trial pit is a guess. Excavation and earthworks. |
| Pre-eruption bedrock | 30 m + | The competent ground everything would ideally sit on. Reaching it means a breaker rather than a bucket, and on a constrained site the plant to do that has to get there first. Where it surfaces — parts of Monolithos, Profitis Ilias — the ground is excellent and the cost falls accordingly. Structural works and concrete. |
| The caldera face | Vertical section | Not a layer but the cut through all of them, and the reason the views exist. The face is actively weathering: the soft bands undercut, the harder bands overhang, and the overhang eventually goes. Anything built here is a conversation about rock, drainage and setback before it is a conversation about architecture. Building on the caldera edge. |
Where you are
The village changes who you need
Not marketing geography. Access, protected status, ground and building stock genuinely differ between settlements twenty minutes apart — and they change which tradesperson can realistically do the job at all.
- 01 OiaNo vehicle access to most of the settlement, and the strictest external-appearance control on the island. Everything arrives on a back or a donkey.
- 02 ImerovigliThe highest point on the caldera rim. Stepped access, heavy yposkafo stock, and a hoist for anything that will not go up steps.
- 03 FiraDense commercial stock, night and pedestrian-street working restrictions, and a mix of caldera-edge and ordinary inland ground.
- 04 PyrgosA medieval fortified core with lanes too narrow for a barrow in places, at the windiest inland elevation on the island.
- 05 Kamari & PerissaFlat, vehicle-accessible, salt-heavy. The hotel and apartment refurbishment cycle runs hard here every closed season.
- 06 TherasiaA second island. Every callout is a second boat, and there is no plant hire waiting on the other side.