Hartford office fit-out demolition between tenants
Partitions, glazed screens, ceilings, raised access floors, joinery and the cabling behind them. Sequenced around the building s hours and the lease wording, so the floor is handed back in the condition the landlord actually asked for.
An office floor plate looks simple until the access floor comes up. Underneath sit years of accumulated data cabling, power distribution, small power boxes and occasionally the remains of three previous tenancies that nobody ever removed.
Abandoned cable has to come out rather than be left, and the volume routinely surprises people who priced the job from the room rather than from under the floor. We lift a sample of panels at survey and price from what is actually there.
Pedestals and panels themselves are worth recovering where the system is a current one, because a complete raised floor has resale value that the same material as waste does not, and that is handled under deconstruction and salvage. Ceilings come down under ceiling and soffit and the rest under strip-out.
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How It Runs
Four stages, priced before stage two
Read the lease
Make-good wording settled before pricing.
Lift and look
Access floor sampled, cabling volume priced.
Strip the fit-out
Screens, ceilings, floors and joinery out.
Hand back to clause
Floor to the condition the lease specifies.
Make-Good
The make-good clause decides how far you go
Two identical office floors can need completely different scopes depending on one paragraph in the lease. Base build with services capped at the riser is a very different job from reinstating the original partition layout, which is different again from simply removing your signage and loose furniture.
Tenants regularly price the job they imagine and are then held to the clause at inspection, and the gap between the two is found at the worst possible moment. We ask for the wording before quoting, say plainly where it is ambiguous, and put our reading of it in writing so you can settle any disagreement with the landlord while there is still time to.
Whatever the make-good clause says, which is why we ask for it before quoting. Base build, original layout and removal of your own works are three different scopes and three different prices.
If the system is current it is worth recovering whole, because a complete floor has a resale value. If it is obsolete or damaged it is separated for recycling instead.
Generally yes, and there is usually far more of it than expected. We lift sample panels at survey so the volume is priced rather than discovered.
Yes, and in a multi-tenant building it is often the only workable option. Evening and weekend working is priced from the start rather than added later.
An open plan floor is commonly one to two weeks. Cellular offices, glazed screens and heavy cabling under the raised floor are what extend it.
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