Closing a business
The lease ends on a date you cannot move, the stock and the fit-out have to be gone by then, and you are doing it while also closing accounts, cancelling contracts and answering everyone who wants to know why.
Most businesses that close are not bankrupt. The owner decides to stop, and then discovers that stopping is a logistics job: shelving, stock, machines, a fit-out that was never meant to come back out, and a landlord expecting an empty unit on a fixed date.
We take the unit as it stands — shop, office, workshop, storeroom, cellar — and hand it back empty. We record what is in it before we price it, so the figure you agree is the figure you pay, and we work to the date in your lease rather than around it.
Anything with value is credited to you on its own line. What it costs to clear the rest is a second line. You see both, and you decide.
If the closure is not voluntary and a court-appointed curator is handling it, the process and the paperwork are different. That is covered on the page for curators.
What we commit to here
One fixed price, agreed before anything is touched, on one invoice from one company.
The price is set at the visit and written down. It is not an estimate, a starting point or a range, and it is not recalculated once the work is done.
If the job turns out heavier than it looked, that is our problem and not your bill.
The price moves only if what is actually in the building is materially different from what was recorded and agreed at the visit.
Every room, cellar, attic, garage and closed door is photographed and confirmed with you before the price is set.
The record is what the price is fixed against. You see it, you correct it, and you agree it before you agree the price. Nothing is discovered later that you did not know about.
Asbestos is the only thing that can change the price, because the law leaves no discretion.
On finding undocumented asbestos we must stop, cordon and mark the area, and notify. We cannot carry on and we cannot absorb it. Anyone who tells you otherwise is telling you they intend to break the law.
What you are paid for and what you pay for appear as two separate lines, never as one net figure.
You can see exactly what was credited and exactly what was charged. A single netted number hides which half moved.
You have the written offer within 48 hours of the visit.
Written, itemised, and yours to sit on. Nothing is asked of you at the visit itself.
The visit is free and carries no obligation.
A building cannot be priced from a phone call or a photograph. The visit is how the price becomes fixed, and you owe nothing if you walk away after it.
Our VAT number and our waste-transport registration are on every document, and both can be checked against the public register.
We claim numbers you can verify, not words you cannot. Waste that leaves the building leaves under a registration held in our own name.
One call, and you stop being the project manager.
You are not the one deciding who does what, in what order, on which day, and you are not the one chasing it. You make one call, you meet one person, and one person owns the outcome.
The visit is the only route to a fixed price
It costs nothing, it commits you to nothing, and the written offer follows within 48 hours. Bring whoever you want to have in the room.