ADVANCED MAINTENANCE UK LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
03568457 · ltd · incorporated 1998-05-21
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 24.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
Sector: Construction
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 24.0y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 24.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (79/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
116 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
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Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
- • 2 officers
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-03-05📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2026-03-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-09-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-21📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2024-02-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-02-07📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-02-07📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2024-02-05📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2024-02-05📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-02-05📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2023-01-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-10-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-26📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2020-12-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-02-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-11-21➖CLEARY, Marlene Elizabeth resignedsecretary
- 2017-11-21➖CLEARY, Frank James resigneddirector
- 2017-11-21➖CLEARY, Marlene Elizabeth resigneddirector
- 2017-05-10🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2010-06-01➕GALE, Ricky Lee appointeddirector
- 2002-07-01🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 1998-05-22➕CLEARY, Marlene Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 1998-05-21🏢Company incorporatedAs ADVANCED MAINTENANCE UK LIMITED
- 1998-05-21➕JONES, David Paul appointeddirector
- 1998-05-21➕CLEARY, Marlene Elizabeth appointedsecretary
- 1998-05-21➕BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-05-21➖BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-05-21➕CLEARY, Frank James appointeddirector
- 1998-05-21➕BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1998-05-21➖BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr Ricky Lee Gale Individual · British · DOB 07/1979 · age 47 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 23/05/2019 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mr David Paul Jonesceased 05/01/2024· 25-50% shares
- Mrs Christine Jonesceased 05/01/2024· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. H. BUILDING CONTRACTORS LIMITED→ 04471414 · est 2002 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 23y | — | — |
| ACM ROOFING LTD→ 14348591 · est 2022 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 3y | — | — |
| ADM BUILDERS LTD→ 10914569 · est 2017 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 8y | — | — |
| ADM PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICES LTD→ 13761089 · est 2021 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 4y | — | — |
| ADMG PROPERTIES LIMITED→ 05054954 · est 2004 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 22y | — | — |
| ADORN DECORATING LTD→ 13930806 · est 2022 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 4y | — | — |
| ADSHARE HOLDINGS LTD→ 15532637 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 2y | — | — |
| ADVANCE WINDOWS LTD→ 07197495 · est 2010 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 16y | — | — |
| ADVANCED DESIGN BUILD AND MANAGEMENT LTD→ 11783746 · est 2019 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 7y | — | — |
| ADVANCED ENERGIES UK LTD→ 15681164 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
| ADVANCED TECH ROOFING LIMITED→ 12748816 · est 2020 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 5y | — | — |
| ADVANTAGE DESIGN AND BUILD LIMITED→ 09609793 · est 2015 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 10y | — | — |
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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-05-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43220 — Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
Registered office
Units 2-4 Chiltern Enterprise Centre Station Road
Theale
Reading
RG7 4AA
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-01
Last: 2026-02-15
Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)
GALE, Ricky Lee→
Activedirector · ~47y · appointed 2010-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
JONES, David Paul→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 1998-05-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CLEARY, Marlene Elizabeth→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 2017-11-21
BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1998-05-21
CLEARY, Frank James→
Resigneddirector · ~75y · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 2017-11-21
CLEARY, Marlene Elizabeth→
Resigneddirector · ~73y · appointed 1998-05-22 · resigned 2017-11-21
BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-05-21 · resigned 1998-05-21
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 10/05/2017 | — | |
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 01/07/2002 | — |
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Recent filings (116 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-03-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-15
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-02-07
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-02-07
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2024-02-05
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-02-05
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2024-02-05