Office refurbishment in London, around a floor that stays in use.
We are the contractor, not a management layer above one. One JCT contract, one named project lead, and a programme built around your occupancy rather than against it.
London office refurbishment by 2VP: occupied refurbishment, office refits and dilapidations works across London, priced after a measured survey and delivered under one JCT contract with every variation signed before it is spent.
A refurbishment company in London that is also the builder
One contract, one named project lead, and no marketplace fee stacked on top of the build cost. The people pricing the work are the people doing it, which is why a question about a lead time gets an answer rather than a chase.
We are not always the cheapest. If price is the only factor we may not be the right fit, and that is fine — this works best with clients who want to commit to a good team.
London office refurbishment, on a floor that cannot stop trading
The difference between refurbishing an office and building one is not the specification, it is the people. A floor in use sets the programme: which walls can come down on a Tuesday, when the noisy first fix happens, how material reaches the seventh floor without taking the passenger lift out of service at nine in the morning.
So the sequence is planned with your building manager before anything is ordered — lift and loading slots, permits to work, dust-sealed screens, and out-of-hours working for the parts of the job that would otherwise stop people doing theirs. Where a phase has to be done in one weekend, that is written into the programme and the completion date rather than hoped for.
You see it happen rather than hear about it: daily site reports with photographs, a stage tracker, and variations priced with options before anyone approves them.
What an office refit includes
Partitions and glazed screens, ceilings and lighting, power and data containment, heating and cooling alterations, floor finishes, decoration, tea points and WC upgrades, and the joinery — reception desks, storage walls, meeting-room fronts. The glazing comes from AtoZ Design & Glass and the joinery from Selection.Works, both our own companies, which is why the lead times on those two trades are ours to answer for rather than a supplier’s to explain.
Everything is priced across the twelve stages of the build, so the quotation reads as a sequence of work rather than a single number with no working behind it.
Dilapidations, and what is actually your liability
A schedule of dilapidations is an opening position, not a bill. Priced line by line against a survey, it usually separates into three groups: items that are genuinely your liability, items that are fair wear and tear, and items the landlord would like while somebody else is paying. Your surveyor negotiates the schedule. We price and deliver the works, itemised, so the negotiation has real numbers underneath it.
Refurbishment or fit-out?
If you are taking a lease on a shell, or on a floor stripped back to one, that is a fit-out — Cat A to the landlord’s specification, Cat B to yours, with nobody working in it while it happens. If you are improving or handing back a space you already occupy, that is a refurbishment, and the occupancy is the whole problem to solve.
Different programmes, different risks. If it is the first one you want our office fit-out page covers Cat A and Cat B, and the same team does both.
Across London, from a studio in Fulham
We work across London. These are the areas with a page of their own, each with the local building stock and the council that decides on it:
- Hammersmith W6 — LB Hammersmith & Fulham
- Fulham SW6 — LB Hammersmith & Fulham
- Chiswick W4 — LB Hounslow
- White City W12 — LB Hammersmith & Fulham
- Nine Elms & Battersea SW8 · SW11 — LB Wandsworth
- Kensington & Chelsea SW3 · W8 — RB Kensington & Chelsea
How it is priced, and when you pay
Priced after a measured site survey, never from a floor area over the phone. The survey is £550 and is credited in full against the works if you proceed. What comes back is an itemised quotation within 48 hours of that visit.
10% to mobilise, then weekly against work already done — with 5% held past handover: 2.5% released at practical completion and 2.5% at the end of the 12-month defects period.
Prices are quoted as a band, because a contract plus variations is what this work actually is — and the band narrows as the scope is pinned down. Every contract carries a 12-month workmanship warranty on second-fix fittings, backed by 2VP and signed by the trades who did the work.
A real studio, in Fulham.
One company, one address, one registered number — not a lead form that sells your details on. You can walk into the office on Dawes Road and ask for Vladimir by name.
Office refurbishment in London — common questions
Can you refurbish our office while we are still in it?
Yes, and it is most of what this work is. The programme is built around your occupancy rather than the other way round: dust-sealed screens, out-of-hours first fix where noise would stop people working, and a lift and loading slot booked with the building manager before anything arrives on site. You get a named project lead, daily site reports and photographs, so you can see what changed without walking the floor.
What is the difference between an office refurbishment and a fit-out?
A fit-out takes a shell, or a floor stripped back to it, and builds the space — Cat A to the landlord's specification, Cat B to yours. A refurbishment upgrades a space that already works and usually has to carry on working, so the constraint is the people in it rather than the base build. If you are taking a new lease it is a fit-out; if you are improving or handing back what you already occupy it is a refurbishment.
Do you handle dilapidations at the end of a lease?
Yes. Schedule-of-dilapidations work is priced the same way as everything else here: a site survey first, then an itemised quotation against the schedule, so you can see which items are genuinely your liability and which are the landlord's wish list. Your surveyor negotiates the schedule; we price and deliver the works.
How is an office refurbishment priced?
After a measured site survey, never from a floor area over the phone. The survey is £550 and is credited in full against the works if you proceed. What comes back is an itemised quotation across the twelve stages of the build, with every variation priced and signed before it is spent.
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Thirty minutes on the floor tells us more than a floor plan does. Itemised quotation within 48 hours of the visit.
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