Make-goods & office fit-outs
Lease-end make goods and small office fit-outs, scoped properly before the clock starts running on your handover date.
What's included
Common jobs we handle
- End-of-lease make goods: patching, painting and reinstatement works
- Removing partitions, signage and fixtures installed by a previous tenant
- Small office fit-outs and refurbishments, joinery and partition work included
- Office refurbishment ahead of a new tenancy or lease renewal
- Shop and retail fit-out carpentry and finishing
- Final walk-through and condition report before handover
FAQ: What is an office make good?
An office make good, which Foreshore Projects & Maintenance carries out for offices and shops on the Lower North Shore, is the work needed to return a leased space to the condition set out in the lease when a tenant moves out. It can include patching, painting, removing partitions and tenant-installed fixtures, and reinstatement works.
What's required depends on the make-good clause in your lease, so send it through with your lease end date and Tim will scope the work against it. Who pays depends on the lease terms, so check with your agent or solicitor. Where an office has old furniture or fit-out waste to clear, Tim can quote the removal alongside the repairs, which means one contractor on site instead of two.
FAQ: What is the difference between an office fit-out and a refurbishment?
A fit-out builds a space out for a tenant and a refurbishment updates an existing fit-out, and Foreshore Projects & Maintenance handles small office and shop versions of both, including partition work, joinery, painting, flooring patches and ceiling repairs.
A refurbishment ahead of a new tenancy or a lease renewal might be a repaint, new joinery and updated fittings, while a fit-out can involve more building work. Tim scopes each job on site and quotes it in writing. Larger projects with many trades may suit a specialist fit-out contractor, and he'll say so if that's the case for yours. The joinery side of the work is covered on the commercial joinery page.
FAQ: Does Foreshore do small office fit-outs and refurbishments in Sydney?
Yes, Foreshore Projects & Maintenance does small and mid-sized office and shop fit-outs and refurbishments on Sydney's Lower North Shore. Tim coordinates the carpentry, joinery, partitions and finishing, and because the business is owner-operated, one person covers quoting, scheduling and handover.
Send through photos or a floor plan with a short brief, and he'll come back with a written quote. Tim has been a joiner since his apprenticeship in 2000, so the joinery and fit-out carpentry in a project is built by the person who quoted it. If a project is bigger than Foreshore can take on, he'll tell you at the quoting stage, which saves you finding out halfway through the job.
Process
How a job runs, start to finish
Send the lease details
The make-good clause, lease end date and any floor plan you have, so the scope is accurate from the start.
Site walk-through
Tim inspects the space and confirms exactly what needs doing against the lease terms.
Scoped quote
A written quote against that walk-through, not a guess, so there are no surprises for the landlord or agent.
Work and handover
Scheduled around your access hours, finishing with a walk-through before keys are returned.
FAQ: How do I get an end of lease make good quote?
To get an end of lease make good quote from Foreshore Projects & Maintenance, send Tim the make-good clause, your lease end date and a floor plan if you have one. He'll inspect the space, confirm the scope against the lease, and provide a written quote, usually within one to three business days of receiving the details.
Start early where you can, because scheduling works back from your handover date. The work is booked around your access hours and finishes with a walk-through before keys are returned. If the lease and the landlord's expectations differ, ask your agent to confirm the scope in writing before Tim starts, so the quote matches what will be accepted at handover.
FAQ: Can Foreshore refurbish an office around staff and trading hours?
Where possible, yes, Foreshore Projects & Maintenance schedules commercial work around a tenancy's access hours instead of standard trade hours, which can include early starts, evenings or weekends where the building allows it. Tim's facilities management background means he's used to planning work around the people in a building.
Tell him about access times, noise limits and lift or loading-dock rules when you enquire, and he'll plan the sequence around them. Joinery is built off-site where possible, so less of the noise and dust happens in your workplace. Confirm what's possible for your building when you receive the quote, since building management sometimes sets its own rules for noisy or dusty work.
Related services
Often paired with
Lease ending soon?
Send through the make-good clause and lease date, Tim will come back with a scoped quote.