Abu Dhabi is not one place to work in. It is an island city on a numbered street grid, a ring of newer island communities at Reem, Maryah, Saadiyat and Yas, a mainland villa belt that starts at Khalifa City, an inland city at Al Ain about 150 km away, and a string of towns out through Al Dhafra. tamam lists 153 areas across all of it, with the same 29 services and the same AED bands in every one.
153 Abu Dhabi areas are listed on tamam — fewer than Dubai's 366, spread over vastly more ground. That is the first thing to understand about booking anything here: two addresses that both say Abu Dhabi can be a two-hour drive apart. Of the 153, 119 are primarily residential, 32 are mixed use, and exactly two are hospitality-led: Hudayriyat Island and Ghantoot.
A booking on Hamdan Street and a booking in Yas Acres share the service name and almost nothing else: different access, different equipment, different amount of time lost before anyone starts working.
It is also why the catalogue splits things that sound like one service. Cleaning lists villa cleaning and apartment cleaning separately, and painting does the same. In an emirate with this even a split between the two, that distinction does real work.
The mechanics are the same everywhere tamam operates: describe the job, several verified vendors who cover your address come back with AED ranges, you pick one. What is specific to Abu Dhabi is what goes in the address field and what goes in the access note.
Rather than guess at demand, look at what the catalogue offers and which parts of it the emirate's housing stock actually makes usable. All 29 services and 156 sub-services are available in every one of the 153 areas — but a fair number of them only make sense in some of them.
Cleaning is the widest entry point, AED 35–90 per hour over a typical 2–6 hour visit. Of its ten sub-services, the pair Abu Dhabi leans on hardest are move-in cleaning and move-out cleaning: a large share of households here sit on employer-linked or annual leases, so a handover is a fixed dated event rather than a flexible weekend, and the clean has to land inside it. Packing and moving at AED 800–5000 arrives in the same conversation, often as an island flat to mainland villa move.
AC maintenance, AED 150–700, splits along the housing line. Towers on Reem and Al Raha Beach generally run on central cooling, so a resident books duct cleaning, coil cleaning or a servicing visit. A villa in Khalifa City or Al Shamkha with its own units is where gas refill comes up, and inland at Al Ain the summer load runs heavier still.
Pool maintenance is the clearest case of a service the map decides for you: the only band quoted monthly, AED 300–900, and only relevant where private pools exist — Hidd Al Saadiyat, Golf Gardens, Yas Acres, Al Raha Gardens. Gardening at AED 150–800 follows the same footprint, irrigation repair and tree trimming carrying real weight in Al Ain. Handyman and smart home cluster around handover instead: Yas, Saadiyat Lagoons, Bloom Living and Alreeman hand over in phases, and a newly collected villa wants curtain rails, brackets and shelving, then a doorbell camera at a gate that did not have one.
Car services are shaped by where the car sleeps. A tower resident on Reem books mobile car wash to the parking bay, and because many basements restrict water use, waterless and steam washes exist as separate sub-services for exactly that reason. A villa driveway is what makes a 3–8 hour detail practical, and roadside assistance covers the long inter-city runs this emirate produces more of than any other.
Health follows the household. Nursing at AED 80–200 per hour covers elderly care and post-surgery care, an ordinary booking in the multi-generational villa households of the mainland belt and Al Ain. Doctor at home includes a hotel visit sub-service, which is what the two hospitality-led areas and the visitor traffic around Yas and Saadiyat generate; attending clinicians are DHA or DoH licensed and nothing here is medical advice. In lifestyle, laundry pickup suits a tower with no drying space, mobile pet grooming the villa communities where a van can park at the door.
The published bands do not change by emirate. AED 150–700 for AC maintenance is the same figure on an Al Khalidiyah page as on an Al Ain one: it describes the service, not a local rate card. What changes between areas is which verified vendors cover them and what they quote once they have seen the job.
| service in abu dhabi | typical time on site | AED band |
|---|---|---|
| cleaning | 2–6 hours | AED 35–90 per hour |
| ac maintenance | 1–3 hours | AED 150–700 |
| handyman | 1–3 hours | AED 100–500 |
| plumber | 1–3 hours | AED 120–600 |
| electrician | 1–3 hours | AED 150–600 |
| pest control | 1–2 hours | AED 150–600 |
| painter | 1–3 days | AED 25–45 per m² |
| packing and moving | 4 hours–2 days | AED 800–5000 |
| gardening | 2–5 hours | AED 150–800 |
| pool maintenance | 1–2 hours | AED 300–900 monthly |
| smart home | 2–5 hours | AED 200–1500 |
| car wash | 30–90 min | AED 30–120 |
| car detailing | 3–8 hours | AED 300–2500 |
| roadside assistance | 30–90 min | AED 150–600 |
| oil change | 30–60 min | AED 150–500 |
| nursing | 1–12 hours | AED 80–200 per hour |
| doctor at home | 30–45 min | AED 300–800 |
| physiotherapy | 45–60 min | AED 250–600 per session |
| salon | 1–3 hours | AED 100–600 |
| pet grooming | 1–3 hours | AED 150–500 |
| laundry | 24–48 hours | AED 30–150 |
Inside those bands the Abu Dhabi-specific movers are property type and access. Villa against apartment is the biggest, and this emirate has an unusually even split of the two, so the same service lands at opposite ends of its range depending on which side of a bridge you live. Access is the second: a tower with a booked service lift and a loading bay slot costs a vendor time that a Khalifa City driveway does not.
Abu Dhabi is the largest emirate by area, and unlike anywhere else that fact shows up in your booking. Coverage here is not a formality; it is the mechanism.
None of that changes the published AED band. It changes which vendors appear when you enter an address, and how a window gets chosen. A 40-minute oil change is an errand in Al Mushrif and a half-day commitment for anyone driving to Ghayathi to do it, so those two addresses do not return the same shortlist. Al Ain works as its own market with its own vendors, which is why its neighbourhoods are listed individually rather than folded into the capital.
On the island the constraint is smaller and different: the crossings, and the morning direction of travel. For a vendor coming from Mussafah or Khalifa City to Al Markaziyah, the first slot of the day and a mid-morning slot are not equivalent. Naming the windows that work for you beats asking for the earliest available.
Two ways in, the same vetted vendors behind both. The app is free to download and free to browse: every service, every band and which vendors cover your Abu Dhabi address, without committing to anything.
The pricing page covers the model in more detail, how it works covers the flow end to end, the app page explains what tamam is, and coverage shows all 686 areas across the seven emirates.
153 named areas: the island grid from Al Khalidiyah to Tourist Club Area, the islands at Reem, Maryah, Saadiyat and Yas, the mainland belt through Khalifa City, MBZ City and Al Shamkha, plus Al Ain and the Al Dhafra towns. Of the 153, 119 are primarily residential and two are hospitality-led.
Yes, as its own set of neighbourhoods rather than an extension of the capital — Al Jimi, Asharej, Hili, Zakher, Falaj Hazzaa, Al Muwaiji and more. Al Ain is roughly 150 km inland, so vendors are matched to those areas specifically, and garden work, irrigation repair and AC servicing carry more weight there than in a coastal tower.
All four are listed. They sit well west and south of the capital — Ruwais roughly 240 km away, Liwa over 200 km — so the vendors covering them are a different set from the island's, and it is worth being flexible on the window. If a specific Al Dhafra address is not listed in-app, whatsapp tamam and a vendor can usually be arranged through the same vetted network.
The tower name, the floor, the entrance to use, and whether the service lift has to be booked or the loading bay has a time slot. Reem is listed by tower and district for exactly this reason — Marina Square, Gate Towers and Shams Abu Dhabi are separate entries. Those notes save to your profile and carry over to the next booking.
The band is the same, AED 35–90 per hour, because cleaning is priced by the hour rather than by the property. What differs is the hours: a visit typically runs 2–6 hours, and a villa in Yas Acres sits at the top of that while a one-bedroom on the island grid sits at the bottom. Villa cleaning and apartment cleaning are listed separately so the vendor quotes the right shape of job.
Mobile car care comes to where the car is parked, and in tower parking that usually means a waterless or steam wash, since many basements restrict water use and have height barriers. A 3–8 hour detail is far easier on a villa driveway in Khalifa City or Al Raha Gardens. Mention the parking situation when you book.
No. The published AED bands are catalogue figures, identical on every area page in all seven emirates. What varies is the quote, which reflects property type, scope, access and the tier you choose — and in this emirate the villa-versus-apartment split does more of that work than the address does.
No. TAMM is the Abu Dhabi Government's platform for government services and transactions. tamam is a private company, spelled differently, that books licensed private-sector vendors. There is no affiliation between them.
Message tamam on whatsapp at +971 50 601 1938 with the address and the job. A coordinator arranges a vendor from the same vetted network and sends back AED ranges to approve before anyone is dispatched. In an emirate this size, that route also covers unusual jobs and addresses out in Al Dhafra.
Free to download, free to browse. Set your address anywhere from the island to Al Dhafra, compare what verified vendors charge in AED, and approve the figure before anyone starts.