Strata Office Suite Make Good at Lease End
Handing back a commercial suite in a strata building means sorting what belongs to the lot from what belongs to the building, then moving the strip out through a lift and lobby other owners use.
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Make Good & Defit
Stripping out at the end of a lease, working around staff in an occupied space, and what make good obligations mean in practice.
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Vet Clinic Make Good: Floor Drains, Kennels and Linings
A vet clinic leaves floors laid to drains, plastic sheeting glued over the walls, kennel fixings and ducts for ward air and anaesthetic gas. How each one comes out at lease end, and what a landlord may keep.
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Salon and Cosmetic Clinic Make Good: Basins, Air and Power
A salon leaves pipes in the slab, hot water units on the wall, ducts through the ceiling and circuits at every station. How each one comes out at lease end, and what a cosmetic clinic's laser room adds.
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Gym and Fitness Studio Make Good: Floors and Fixings
A gym leaves rubber glued to the slab, anchors in the concrete, mirrors on the walls and showers in a dry tenancy. How we take each one out and repair what it leaves behind.
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Dental Surgery Make Good: Chair Services, Plant and X-Ray
A dental practice leaves services in the slab under every chair, a plant room piped to each surgery and lead in the X-ray room walls. How each one comes out, and in what order.
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Floor Boxes, Conduits and Cored Holes at Make Good
On an office floor with no raised floor, desk power ran through the concrete. How each floor box, conduit and core is traced, disconnected, filled and recorded before the landlord takes the floor back.
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Childcare Centre Make Good: Wet Areas and Outdoor Play
A childcare centre leaves wet areas across the floor, glass in its internal walls and a fenced play area outside. How we strip each one out, and what a landlord may keep for the next operator.
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Medical Clinic Make Good: Basins, Walls and Vinyl Floors
A clinic leaves basins, walls built to the slab, coved vinyl and clinical fixtures behind. How each one comes out, what it leaves in the building to close up, and which rooms a landlord may keep.
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Warehouse Make Good at Lease End: What We Strip and Patch
A warehouse make good is mostly the offices, amenities and services built for staff. How we strip each one out, patch the slab and walls, and fit our work around the racking and dock trades.
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Cafe and Restaurant Make Good: Exhaust, Grease and Floors
A food tenancy's make good reaches the roof, the sewer and the slab. We set out the order we strip the exhaust, grease trap, cool room, kitchen linings and floor, and what is left for the landlord.
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Shopping Centre Make Good: Handing Back to Centre Management
Inside a shopping centre, a make good is checked against the centre's tenancy plan and run around trading hours, with waste out through the loading dock and services back to the centre's points.
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Warehouse Mezzanine at Lease End: Keep It or Take It Out
A mezzanine office is fitout sitting on a steel structure. How each part comes out at lease end, and what is checked and handed over when the landlord keeps it.
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What Happens to Fitout Waste at Strip-Out
A strip-out produces six or seven different waste streams from one floor. Here is how they are separated as the fitout comes down, which ones are recycled in Sydney, which go to landfill, and what paperwork comes back.
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Converting a Retail Shop to an Office
A former shop is built to sell, and an office behind the same glass needs close to the opposite. This is the building work that turns a street-level shop into a working office.
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Refurbishing A Tired Law Firm Reception And Front Of House
For a law firm, the reception makes the argument before anyone says a word. A client steps out of the lift into the front of house and forms a judgement about the firm in the first few seconds, well before the meeting starts. So when that space starts to look dated, worn carpet, a tired […]
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Combining Two Floors Of A Sydney Office Tenancy Into One: Stair Cut-In And Ceiling Reinstatement Around The Opening
When a Sydney tenant takes the floor above or below the existing tenancy and decides to put an internal stair between them, the structural cut through the slab gets most of the attention. The bigger build question, once the slab opening exists, is what happens to the ceilings on each side of it. The lower-floor […]
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Reinstating A Plasterboard Demising Wall Mid-Lease After A Sub-Let Ends: What We Strip And Patch When The Wall Comes Out
A Sydney tenant who sub-let half their floor at some point during the lease and is now bringing the tenancy back together usually has a single visible problem: the demising wall in the middle of the floor that no longer needs to be there. The build question is what comes out, what stays, and what […]
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Refreshing the Lift Lobby on a Sydney Office Floor: Ceilings, Bulkheads and Lighting Between Leases
Prospective tenants form their view of a floor in the thirty seconds between the lift doors opening and the agent unlocking the suite, and the lobby ceiling does more of that work than anything else in the frame. A yellowed grid, mismatched tiles and a flat fluorescent wash read as deferred maintenance before anyone has […]
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Relocation Make Good Vs In-Place Make Good In A Sydney Commercial Tenancy: How The Choice Shapes The Scope
Make good is not one scope. The same lease clause produces a very different schedule of works depending on whether the tenant is leaving the tenancy entirely or staying put under a renewed lease. Most tenants think of make good as the thing they do when they move out. Tenants who renew often discover, partway […]
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Reinstating Office Partitions And Ceilings After A Burst Pipe: What We Sequence
A burst pipe above a commercial office tenancy rarely stops at the ceiling line. By the time we walk the floor on the first visit, the water has usually moved through three layers of finishes. A section of suspended ceiling has come down or sagged, the partitions in the affected zone are wet at the […]
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When The Make-Good Clock Starts: Dilapidation Schedule Timing Tenants Miss In NSW Leases
The make-good clock does not start when a tenant hands the keys back. It does not start when the dilapidation schedule lands either, although that is the moment most tenants finally notice it. In a Sydney commercial lease, the clock has been running quietly from the start of the tenancy, and the windows that actually […]
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First Fitout In A Second-Generation Sydney Tenancy With A Retained Ceiling: What We Keep And What We Strip
A second-generation Sydney tenancy with a usable ceiling is sometimes a saved cost on the fitout feasibility and sometimes a hidden cost on the build. The honest answer to “should we keep it” depends on two things we can usually read off a walk-through in under an hour: how the grid is sitting, and what […]
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Sequencing A Sydney Office Defit Demo Against The Next Tenant’s Fitout Start Date
When a Sydney office defit lands back to back with the next tenant moving in, the defit window stops being negotiable. The landlord has a handover date with the next tenant, the next tenant has a fitout start they have already booked their team and trades around, and the outgoing tenant’s defit has to clear […]
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Defit Now or at Lease End: Timing the Strip-Out When You Leave a Sydney Office Early
Leaving a tenancy before the lease runs out raises a timing question: strip the floor out now while you still hold it, or leave the defit until the handback date. The answer turns on access, what the lease says about condition, and whether the empty floor is costing you more held than handed back. It […]
Other Topics
The rest of the library.
- Costs & Planning114 articlesWhat a fitout costs, what moves the number, and how a job runs from the first site visit to handover.
- Partitions & Ceilings177 articlesGlass and plasterboard partition systems, suspended and exposed ceilings, and how each one handles noise.
- Design & Layout88 articlesPlanning a floor: how much space people need, where rooms go, and what a layout decision costs to build.
- Fitouts by Sector160 articlesWhat changes when the tenant is a medical practice, a school, a law firm or a warehouse.
- Building & Technical53 articlesBase building condition, floor loading, slab heights and services routes. The constraints that decide what can be built.
- Trades & Services45 articlesElectrical, data, air conditioning, sprinklers, flooring and joinery, and the order they have to run in.
- Approvals & Compliance39 articlesLandlord consent, building management requirements and the paperwork a fitout needs before work starts on site.
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