Do you need to carry out office dilapidations and dilapidation work repairs according to your lease?

Do you want to undertake a commercial refurbishment but are concerned about breaching the terms of your lease?

Trevor Blake Fit Out (TB Fit Out) can act for and on your behalf for all of your office dilapidation services and dilapidations works whether you are a landlord or a tenant. We will review the works you intend to carry out and ensure that they comply.

Our fully-managed office dilapidations services includes:

  • Liaising with the landlord/tenant or their appointed agents.
  • Detailed premises surveys, room-by-room.
  • Managing the application for consent where appropriate.
  • Undertaking all building and refurbishment services either for works required, or in respect of any claim of dilapidation from the landlord to bring the building back up to standard.
Dilapidation works

What Does Office Dilapidation and Dilapidation Works Mean?

Dilapidation works is where a tenant’s building lease is coming to the end of its term and where a tenant is required by law to make ‘reparations,’ i.e. to return the property back to its original state prior to any company refurbishments or office fit outs. Essentially ‘making good’ as per the schedule of dilapidations to reinstate said property back to its initial, pre-altered form, before the end of the tenancy lease period.

It’s always important to be aware of your lease agreement obligations. Failure to comply with dilapidation agreements can place you in breach of your contractual obligations.

You can view our articles for landlords on office dilapidations here for your commercial properties, how to avoid getting stung by rising dilapidation costs here and how to reduce the cost of spiralling dilapidation costs here. For all of our case studies you can take a look here.

“Having recently used Trevor Blake as the fit out contractor for our new offices, I would have no hesitation in recommending them. Right from the tendering stage through to practical completion they were proactive and professional in their approach, keeping to project time scales and budget. The site team were also a pleasure to deal with, any issues or problems encountered were dealt with swiftly and professionally.”

Ian Coulman, Accord CAD Services

"We commend the TB Fit Out team on their professional attitude, eye for detail, and working to agreed time-scales"

Titan Travel UK

“I just wanted to thank you personally as well for the great work that you and your teams deliver for the College. The standard of work is outstanding! Thank you so much.”

Maria Vetrone, Nescot College

"I just wanted to write to thank you for all of the hard work that you and your teams have put in this summer on Ducks and Verites. Once again you were on time and produced a high quality finish in both houses and undertook additional work as the project went along. Your site agents were excellent and Leon in particular has received a huge amount of praise from the Verites house team and adjacent Gownboys housemaster. The projects both look amazing and I feel certain that the pupils will be very pleased with their new spaces."

Estate Bursar, Charterhouse

“We used Trevor Blake Fit Out to help Creative reconfigure our workplace to provide a COVID safe environment in anticipation of staff returning to the office from mid 2021, as well to refresh the appearance of such space given a rebranding exercise that had been completed by the business in 2020. Throughout the scoping and quotation process the liaison with Trevor Blake Fit Out was just as we needed, with options and recommendations fully explained to us, and the quality of the work completed by the team was first class, meaning that we now have a workplace that staff are pleased to return to, and take pride in working within, and which is fully enabled to allow Creative to operate effectively as we hopefully move to a post-pandemic operational model. We have used Trevor Blake Fit Out on many occasions in the past, and would be expecting to use them again in the future.” Neil Gough, Operations Director, Creative

Neil Gough, Creative

“In the 10 years that we’ve worked with Trevor Blake Fit Out we’ve amassed a multitude of projects at our current and previous premises, encompassing: a full office fit out, alterations to our current partitioning, dilapidation of our previous premises and electrical works which included lighting alterations. They have also supplied us with collaborative furniture and monitor arms with cable management to all of our existing work stations which allowed more of a clean desk policy. Their help enabled us to create flexible zones that enhanced our work flow processes and made our working areas places that our staff could thrive within, where they can work in a way that suits them and a space where they can be comfortable and productive within. Choosing to work with TB Fit Out is always an easy choice with their expertise, professionalism and guided solutions to make our workspaces the best it can be for everyone within it and whom we welcome into it.”

Mick Ridgway, First Central

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Common Office Dilapidation Works

Scheduled works that are usually included within dilapidation projects are:

  • To strip out anything added since the company took on the lease.
  • To strip out any partition walls.
  • To strip out suspended ceilings or just to install new ceiling tiles. 
  • To replace floor coverings.
  • To strip out any additional power and data sockets cables installed.
  • To strip out any additional lights installed.
  • To strip out any kitchenettes installed.
  • To redecorate the building.

How are dilapidation costs calculated?

Dilapidation costs are calculated based on the cost of repairs and reinstatement works that a company should have completed, plus, any loss of rent for the period then needed to carry out and complete said works.

What dilapidation keywords and technical terms are often used and how to understand them?

Many office dilapidation keywords can be used frequently, where you'll see dilapidation works content with words such as: 

  • Commercial reparations: repair work to reinstate a workspace
  • Dilapidations works: looking at commercial tenancy agreements and deciding on what you are legally obliged to carry out as per your tenancy contract or as a landlord what you'll be expecting/negotiating with your tenants to prepare your commercial business space for the next business tenant.
  • Schedule of dilapidations:

A document prepared by landlords (or their surveyor) that lists the legal reinstatement & repair compliance required along with any decorative works to the leased property that may suggest remedial works and, in some instances, can suggest estimated costs of such remedial works.

You'll also potentially discover words such as: A Scotts Schedule, a Quantified Demand, Dilapidations Protocol and Serving a Schedule of Dilapidations. We detail the meaning of them in our article here.

Hire Professional Experts for Your Office Dilapidation Works

 

Hiring professional experts to assist in preparing your property for lease for your next business tenant can be an onerous task to undertake, which is why as dilapidation experts we assist landlords & tenants in presenting attractive lease hires for businesses, companies, organisations and brands to a competitive, high standard, as well as offering services for any remedial works on commercial properties too.

Want further advice?

Get in Touch for all of your commercial dilapidations, educational & insurance damage/ office reinstatement refurbishment needs, you can reach out and contact us at Trevor Blake Fit Out (TB Fit Out) by sending us an email here or by calling us directly on 01293 775509.