About Corvana Renovation

Corvana Renovation renovates homes across the UAE: villas, apartments, kitchens, bathrooms and interiors. We take the job as the main contractor, price it in writing and deliver it with licensed trades for each part of the work. Corvana is operated by WebsiteOS LLC, a company licensed in the Sharjah Media City Free Zone (Shams), licence 2646567.01. The footer of every page on our sites names the operator too.

How does a job run?

It takes five steps, and you can stop after any of them.

1. You send the job on WhatsApp or through the form: villa or apartment, the community, which rooms, and what you want changed.
2. We check it against the published band for that kind of work and ask for anything missing, usually the size in square feet and the number of bathrooms.
3. We send one written price: a rate, the area it applies to and a finish specification.
4. You approve it, and we handle the approvals your community and your emirate ask for.
5. Our team does the work and hands over when you have checked it.

What does a quote cost?

Nothing. The quote is free and there is no obligation to go ahead. You pay for the work you approve, at the price in the quote.

The price is written out line by line, so you can see what each part of the job costs before you sign.

How we collect and date the prices

We publish the bands so you can check our price against the market. A quote only means something next to a number you did not get from the person quoting, and the bands give you that number before anyone visits the house. The figures are collected and dated by Stefan Dahl, who also reads the permit and NOC rules behind each page.

Every price on our sites is a figure a UAE company publishes about its own work. We read it on that company's own page, record the address and the date, and quote it as published, without averaging or rounding. The set in use now was read on 18 September 2026, which is why the tables say September 2026. When a company changes its figure, the new one goes in with its own date.

Some figures stay out on purpose:

• Forum posts and social media threads, however specific. They describe one person's bill, not a company's price.
• Figures far outside every other source, such as one bathroom price at about a fifth of what everyone else publishes.
• Worked examples that do not add up, such as a design fee larger than most complete fit-outs.
• Any price we could not read at its own address on the day.

Where one company contradicts itself on the same page, we record both numbers and say so. The bands for all five lines, with the count of companies behind each one, are in the renovation cost index.

Who does the work?

Trades that hold the licence for the work where you live. Each emirate licenses contractors in its own way, and a firm cleared in one is not automatically cleared in the next.

• Dubai. A trade licence plus a place on Dubai Municipality's register of contractors. Building Contracting is the graded activity, and Grade Four covers a two-storey villa. Even work that needs no permit, such as painting, must use a Municipality-accredited contractor.
• Abu Dhabi. The Department of Municipalities and Transport grades contractors from Special down to Sixth, and only a contractor registered in its classification system can request a building maintenance permit.
• Sharjah. The Municipality classifies contractors and the Sharjah Department of Economic Development licenses them. An open violation on a contractor's licence blocks its permit applications, and the Municipality publishes a violations lookup.
• Ajman. The Municipality grades contractors and consultants into categories, and moving up a category is its own service, AED 200 and 2 days, though the categories themselves are not published. Some Municipality services also ask for a contractor's licence issued in Ajman itself.

On top of the licence, the team on your job already works in your community, and our price always sets out a rate, an area and a finish specification in writing.

The registers behind each of those checks, emirate by emirate, are in our guide to checking a licence.

What we will not do

• Start work before you have approved a written price.
• Sell your number, or pass it to anyone who is not working on your job.
• Present a company's published price as our own. Every band on our sites is labelled as published and carries the date it was read.
• Tell you a job needs no permit without naming the rule that exempts it.

What we do with the details you send, who receives them and how to have them deleted is set out in our privacy notice.

If you already know the job, our guide to Dubai home renovation lists the five lines. Each one has its own site, its own price guide and a page for every emirate we cover.

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