By the end of your Sydney warehouse lease, you’ve probably spent quite a bit of time and money on the facility. Perhaps you’ve installed a mezzanine office, created various working areas, and installed wet areas. At the end of your lease, you may well be required to remove all of these components… it all depends on your makegood clause.
The makegood clause is a section of your original lease agreement. It determines whether or not you must return the warehouse to its original condition when vacating the premises. If the clause is vague, you may well owe your landlord a lump sum fee in lieu of stripping out the facility. This is why a makegood clause must always be crystal clear.
However, assuming you do need to complete a de-fit at the end of your tenancy, Makegoods can help. We’ll firstly ensure that you fully understand your obligations now that your lease is ending. Then, we can complete the make good process for you, with our team of expert strip-out and demolition professionals.
Let’s take a closer look.
Warehouse defit
A general warehouse de-fit involves the removal of all elements that were installed by the tenant. That will inevitably include a wide range of fixtures, finishes and materials. Most of the time, this includes, but is not limited to:
- Frames and steelwork
- Walls and partitions (non-load bearing)
- Any temporary structures and annexes
- Garage doors, roller doors and shutters, gates
- Certain plumbing work
- Certain electrical work
- Storage rooms and temporary areas
- Conveyors, overhead cranes
- Data cables and related equipment
- CCTV and included security systems
- Fire services
- Lighting
- Bathrooms and kitchenettes.
The scope of work will vary from job to job. Some landlords will reduce the fee for keeping certain facets of the fit-out, particularly if the incoming tenant wishes to keep them. That often includes areas like bathrooms, breakrooms and kitchenettes.
Warehouse office removal
A mezzanine office in your Sydney warehouse is incredibly useful. However, depending on the nature of the new tenant’s business, they may require it to be removed. If this is the case, you certainly need an expert strip-out and demolition company. At Makegoods, our contractors are the best in the business, with more than a decade of experience in office demolition and strip-out.
We can efficiently dismantle any Sydney warehouse mezzanine office, taking it apart swiftly and safely. We’ll then ensure that the waste materials are either repurposed (perhaps by you in your next facility), recycled or onsold to a secondhand owner. This ensures that we’re always delivering an eco-friendly solution for demolition waste.
Removal of workstations
Most warehouses have workstations, usually tailored to suit a very wide range of activities. When it comes time to vacate the premises, there’s no doubt you’ll need to remove these. Depending on the size of the warehouse and the extent of your operations, it may well take quite a bit of time and effort to do so!
At Makegoods, we’ll put together a thorough plan off attack for removing your workstations, along with any other original elements from your warehouse fit-out. We’ll make sure everything runs smoothly, to minimise the stress, time and money spent on your makegood clause and any required strip-out operations.
Warehouse cleaning Sydney
One of the more involved parts of a warehouse makegood and strip-out is the cleaning process. Warehouses and other industrial facilities inevitably collect all sorts of dust, dirt and other contaminants. It’s simply the nature of these kinds of businesses. Once you do vacate, extremely thorough Sydney warehouse cleaning is essential.
A thorough, professional sweep and scrub service should be performed at the end of your Sydney warehouse lease. At Makegoods, we work with the best warehouse cleaning company in Sydney. With their help, we’ll be able to utilise cutting-edge cleaning equipment to ensure that every part of your warehouse is sparkling clean.
When you do make use of a machine sweep and scrub, you’re putting yourself in a much better position for when it comes time to vacate. If there is still grime and dust in the building, there’s a good chance that your landlord will attempt to claim some of your security deposit to claim additional cleaning costs… and they’d be well within their right.
Avoid this by utilising an expert makegood company. We’re ready to help ensure that your warehouse is as good as new when you hand over the keys.
Sustainable strip-out and demolition waste management
The matter of strip-out and demolition waste can be a tricky one. Unfortunately, historically Australian’s aren’t the most conscious when it comes to dealing with construction waste in a truly eco-friendly manner. As a society, our go-to solution has traditionally been to throw the building waste into landfills.
Dumping demolition waste into landfills is a problem for a number of reasons. First of all, it becomes a source of pollution, especially when blown out of landfills or carried out by heavy rainwater. This is particularly common with older landfill sites that weren’t properly sealed. Moreover, throwing waste away in this manner eliminates the possibility of recycling and reusing.
A huge amount of strip-out and demolition waste can be recycled, and even reused in new projects. This is why at Makegoods, and our sister company Sydney City Rubbish, we’re entirely dedicated to sustainable construction waste management. We do this by separating waste, working with certified recycling facilities, and utilising our network to help forward waste material for repurposing.
In the end, that’s a better result for all.
Sydney makegoods experts
We’re the Sydney warehouse makegoods experts, and we’re ready to help your business. If you’ve come to the end of your warehouse lease, and need to return your facility to its original condition, get in touch with us today. We’d love to help.