Commercial · Lease End
Lease end dilapidations
and reinstatement.
The schedule lands, the deadline is short, and the number the landlord's surveyor put on it is usually negotiable. Send us the schedule and we price the works against it line by line, then carry them out, anywhere in London.
Priced against the schedule, not against a guess.
Send us the schedule of dilapidations. We price it item by item, and flag the items we think are arguable, which is usually more of them than a tenant expects.
Partitioning, fit-out, floor boxes, data cabling, kitchens and signage removed, with the waste documented.
From schedule to handover.
Along with the lease end date and the relevant lease clauses if you have them.
Every item priced, with the ones worth questioning marked, so you can see where the negotiating room is.
Answered
plainly.
It is the landlord's claim for the cost of putting the premises back to the condition the lease requires when you hand it back. It arrives as a schedule with a figure attached. That figure is a negotiating position. Having a contractor price each line and do the works is very often cheaper than paying it.
No. We are the contractor. A dilapidations surveyor prepares or challenges the schedule; we price the works on it and carry them out. If what you need is the inspection itself, we will say so rather than sell you something else. Once you have the schedule, send it over and we will price every line.
A list, usually prepared by the landlord's surveyor, of everything they say you must put right before the lease ends. It comes with a price attached. That price is an opening position, not a bill, and it is very often higher than the cost of doing the work.
That depends on the numbers and on your lease, and it is a question for your surveyor or solicitor rather than for us. What we can give you is an accurate cost of actually doing the works, which is the figure you need before you can decide.
A small office suite is usually one to three weeks. A full floor with services and partitioning is four to eight. The constraint is normally building access and lift bookings rather than the work itself.
Yes, and in occupied buildings it is often the only way. Most managing agents restrict noisy work to evenings and weekends. We agree the hours with the building before we start.
Yes, including the paperwork. Commercial strip-out generates a duty of care obligation on waste transfer, and you want that documented rather than assumed.
All 32 London boroughs. Lease end work takes us across the whole city: east and north London including Walthamstow, Turnpike Lane, Stratford, Hackney, Islington and King's Cross, south east London including Woolwich and Greenwich, and our west and south west London base.
It depends on the lease, the schedule and the timetable, and your surveyor or solicitor should advise on that. What we can do is price the works accurately so you can make the comparison.
Tell us the property
and we will survey it.
A site visit, an honest recommendation and a fixed written quote. London-wide.
Strip-out, reinstatement and repair.
A dilapidations schedule usually mixes three kinds of work. Separating them helps both tenants and landlords see what is actually owed.
Strip-out of tenant alterations
Partitions, raised floors, kitchens, signage and cabling the lease says must go are removed and the waste cleared.
Reinstatement
Ceilings, floor finishes, lighting and decoration are put back to the condition or specification the lease requires.
Building services
Electrical and mechanical services are made safe or reinstated by registered engineers, with the certificates the landlord will ask for.
Repairs and redecoration
Damage, wear beyond fair wear and tear, and redecoration items on the schedule are carried out and photographed.
For tenants and landlords.
Tenants leaving premises
We price the schedule line by line so you can compare carrying out the works with settling the claim, then deliver the works to the lease end date.
Landlords and agents
We carry out reinstatement and repairs between lettings so the unit is ready to market as soon as possible.
Surveyors
We work alongside your building surveyor, pricing and completing the works their schedule sets out.
Often needed
alongside this.
Areas we cover.
We take dilapidations and reinstatement work across all 32 London boroughs. Most of our work is in west London, in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chiswick and White City, and in south west London, in Putney, Wandsworth and Wimbledon. We also work in south east London, in Greenwich, Blackheath and Lewisham.
If your property is outside these areas, call us anyway. We travel across London and will tell you honestly if a job is too far to price properly.