About Me
I have 23 years of experience in renovation and construction, including 14 years running my own company in the high-end residential market of Madrid’s northwest corridor — Pozuelo de Alarcón, Las Rozas, Majadahonda, Boadilla del Monte, La Moraleja. The clients in these areas are demanding, well-travelled, and notice everything. Working for them for over a decade builds a particular kind of standard.
My background is full-scope renovation management: from initial survey and planning through coordination of specialist trades, site supervision and client handover. I have built and managed teams on larger projects and worked directly on the tools on smaller ones. I understand every phase of a renovation from the inside, which makes me a different kind of site manager — one who cannot be told something is finished when it is not.
Every project my company delivered received a five-star client review. That record is not a coincidence. It is the result of applying the same quality filter at every stage, whether I am managing a team of six or working on a single bathroom.
I am relocating to Zürich for personal reasons (a divorce) and decided it was the right moment to take on a new challenge in a market I have always respected. Switzerland has the standards I have always worked toward.
Available from 25 of June this year.
Name: Catalin «Cato» Sora
Age: 42 years
Languages: English (fluent) · Spanish (native) · Romanian (native) · I have recently started learning German and am committed to reaching functional level quickly.
Driving licence: Category B
Renovalista & Espatulado · Founder & Director
2012 – 2026 · Madrid, Spain
High-end residential renovation company operating across Madrid’s northwest corridor and premium city districts. Full-scope projects from planning to handover. Team coordination, client management, quality control, and direct site supervision. 100% five-star client record throughout operation. And a lot of hands-on work, tool in hand, practically all the smaller projects and many phases of the larger ones.
For the past 14 of those years I ran my own businesses: Renovalista, a full-scope renovation company serving mid-to-high-end residential clients in one of Madrid’s most demanding neighbourhoods, and Espatulado, a specialist microcement brand.
Various stages from apprentice to senior tradesman in several family-owned renovation and construction companies
2003 – 2012 · Madrid, Spain
Hands-on renovation and construction across residential and commercial projects in Madrid. Developed full-scope expertise across all major renovation trades during this period.
Every project in this portfolio was executed personally. I do not supervise — I build. I manage the site, coordinate materials, execute the trades, and deliver to a standard I set myself, which is consistently higher than what the client requires:
Full Renovation · 110m² Private Apartment · Madrid
Complete renovation of a 120 m² private apartment with Royal Palace views, in Madrid Rio, a top zone on Madrid, including full coordination of specialist trades, structural interventions, bathroom and kitchen renovation, flooring throughout, and all decorative finishes like microtopping finishes on bathrooms walls.Delivered on schedule to a five-star client review with zero snagging items at handover.
Scope: Structural work · Plumbing · Tiling · Drylining · Painting · Finishes
Surface: 120 m²
Duration: 12 weeks
Client: Private residential
Random photos of various jobs
Absolutely all photos are real, of work done by me and my company
Example «before and after» videos of a small apartment in the center of Madrid. The condition of this apartment before, as you can see, was deplorable.