Everything that is not one trade
Commercial Building Repairs in London
Multi-trade repair work for commercial buildings: the jobs that need a joiner and a decorator and an electrician, and that nobody wants to project-manage.
The jobs that fall between contractors
Every building has a list of them. A damaged ceiling after a leak, which needs a plasterer, a decorator and someone to refit the light. A door that has dropped, damaged the frame and now will not hold its fire seal. A wall that needs making good after cabling.
Individually they are too small to interest a main contractor and too multi-trade for a single specialist. Collectively they are the reason a building looks tired even though nothing is actually broken.
This is the service that clears that list.
Typical repair work
- Making good after leaks, floods, impact damage and cabling works
- Plastering, patching, tiling and finishing
- Joinery: doors, frames, ironmongery, skirtings, partitions, fixtures
- Fire door repairs, closer replacement and intumescent seal renewal
- Ceiling and floor repairs, including suspended ceiling tiles and grids
- External fabric: brickwork repointing, render repair, gutters, downpipes, flat roof patching
- Small works and alterations that do not warrant a project team
Out of hours, in occupied buildings
Most of this work happens in buildings that are still trading. Offices with people in them, shops that open at nine, clubs that have a fixture on Saturday.
Work can be phased room by room, floor by floor, or run in the evenings and at weekends. Where a job would disrupt trading, we would rather price it out of hours than pretend it can be done quietly at 11am.
Where repairs stop and refurbishment starts
There is a line, and we are clear about it. Repairs and maintenance keep an existing building working. Once the job becomes a defined-scope project to change the building — a full refurbishment, a fit-out, a strip-out and rebuild — it belongs with Commercial Refurbs London, our project arm.
You do not need to work out which side of the line you are on before you call. We will tell you, and if it is a project we will hand it to the right part of the group rather than stretching a maintenance team across it.
Common questions
Is there a minimum job size?
No, but small individual jobs are more economic batched. Many clients keep a running list and we clear it in a single visit rather than mobilising separately for each item.
Do you price per job or per day?
Per job wherever the scope can be defined, because it puts the risk on us rather than you. Genuinely open-ended work, such as chasing a fault of unknown extent, is priced on time with a cap agreed before we start.
Can you work outside business hours?
Yes. Evening and weekend working is normal for occupied commercial buildings and is priced accordingly. Tell us the constraint and we will build the programme around it.
Do you handle insurance reinstatement work?
Yes. We can attend to make safe, document the damage, and quote the reinstatement in a form an insurer or loss adjuster will accept.
One conversation, every trade at the table.
Tell us about the building and which disciplines are causing the pain. We will come back with how the group would run them.
Talk to the group