Shopfronts, shelving, counters and services stripped out of live centres and high streets. Work runs in the windows the landlord allows, behind hoarding that keeps your neighbours trading.
In retail demolition the trading calendar sets the programme
In a shopping centre the demolition is easy and the access is not. Dock slots, service corridor bookings, permitted noise hours and the centre closing at nine all sit on the critical path, and none of them belong to you.
Work that would take four days in an empty unit takes six or seven live, and that is a fact to price rather than a problem to discover in week two. We read the lease and the centre rules before quoting, build the sequence around the windows that actually exist, and hoard to deck so the unit next door keeps trading.
Lease, centre hours, dock access and insurance limits.
Hoard and isolate
Hoarding to deck, alarms isolated, floors protected.
Strip the fit-out
Fixtures, services and finishes out in booked windows.
Hand back clean
Unit to the agreed condition, dock and corridors swept.
Landlord Condition
Read the make-good clause before you price
Most retail leases carry a make-good or reinstatement clause, and it decides how far the strip-out goes. Some want the unit back to base build with services capped at the riser. Some want the original partition layout reinstated.
Some only want the signage and your fixtures gone. Those are very different jobs, and tenants regularly get quotes for one and are held to another when the landlord inspects. We ask for the clause before quoting rather than after, and where it is ambiguous we say so in writing so you can settle it with the landlord while it is still cheap.
Behind hoarding, yes, within the permitted noise hours. Anything loud usually moves to overnight, which is priced as its own line so you can weigh it against a longer programme.
The part of your lease saying what condition the unit returns in. It decides the scope entirely, so send it before asking anyone for a price.
We do, through the centre management, but slots are limited and often the longest lead item. Give us the contact as early as you can.
Hoarding to the deck rather than the ceiling grid, negative air with filtration, and tack mats at the exit. Inspected before work starts.
Yes, though it is structural work at the head and needs support planned. It is quoted with the temporary works rather than as a strip-out item.
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