Partitions, ceilings, floor finishes, fixtures and the services behind them removed, with the frame, the slab and anything load-bearing left exactly as found. The shell is swept and handed over ready for the next trade.
A strip-out is defined by what stays, not by what goes. Partitions, linings, ceilings, floor coverings, joinery, sanitaryware and the mechanical and plumbing runs behind them all come out. The frame, the slab, the columns, the shear walls and anything carrying a load stay untouched.
Where the two meet is where jobs go wrong, because a partition that looks like a stud wall is occasionally doing structural work nobody recorded. We survey before pricing and mark the line on a drawing you keep, so the scope is a document rather than a conversation.
Services capped, containment and floor protection in.
Strip in order
Fixtures, linings, ceilings, then floor finishes.
Sweep and hand back
Shell cleaned, debris weighed and documented.
Occupied Buildings
Stripping out while the building stays open
Most strip-outs happen in buildings that are still being used, and that changes the method rather than the price alone. Containment barriers seal the work area, negative pressure keeps dust from travelling through the plenum, and the noisy work moves to hours agreed with the building manager rather than whenever suits us.
The parts people underestimate are the shared systems: a ceiling void usually carries somebody else s services, and a riser almost always does. We trace those before the first ceiling tile comes out, because finding them with a cutting tool is how a strip-out becomes an incident report.
Services are capped as part of the sequence, hazardous material is cleared first under abatement, waste leaves through booked windows under debris hauling, and the wider scope sits under interior demolition.
Usually yes. Containment, dust control and agreed working hours make it workable. The constraint is normally shared services in the ceiling void and the riser, which we trace before starting.
We survey and mark it on a drawing before pricing, and you keep that drawing. Anything load-bearing is quoted separately with temporary works rather than folded into a strip-out rate.
Yes, capping is part of the sequence rather than an add-on. Where a service is shared with another tenant it is isolated at an agreed point and left safe and labelled.
The survey happens before the price is fixed. In buildings from before the mid nineties it commonly turns up in floor tile, adhesive, textured coating or ceiling panels, and it is cleared first.
Swept, services capped and labelled, and free of debris. If your lease has a make-good clause we work to that wording rather than to a general idea of clean.
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