Commercial · 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. We price the works against the schedule line by line, then carry them out.
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.
Back to the demise as the lease describes it: ceilings, floors, lighting, decoration and services.
Wall and floor repairs, fixing holes, redecoration to the specified standard.
Programmes are built backwards from the lease end, because the clock is the whole problem.
We also work for landlords who need the reinstatement done after a tenant has settled rather than carried out the works.
We are contractors, not building surveyors. We price and carry out the works. If you want the schedule itself challenged, that is a job for a dilapidations surveyor and we will say so.
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.
Built backwards from the exit date, phased around whatever access the building allows.
Photographic record of the completed works, which is what settles the argument afterwards.
Answered
plainly.
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, with a focus on west and south-west London.
Tell us the property
and we will survey it.
A site visit, an honest recommendation and a fixed written quote. London-wide.