Retail
Fire stopping and fire doors delivered overnight, between trading days.
Overview
Shopping centres, supermarkets, department stores, showrooms, large-format retail and individual tenancies. Retail passive fire work is mostly night work, mostly above ceilings, and mostly caused by a tenancy that changed hands.
We work to centre management's rules on access, noise and reinstatement, and hand the space back trade-ready before the doors open. You get the work done and certified without losing a day's trade.
We catch it at tenancy change, while it is still someone else's bill
A tenancy handover means a strip-out and a refit. Services get cut, capped, rerouted and added. The tenancy demising walls are usually fire-rated, and the ceiling space above them is where the evidence of the last four fitouts is sitting.
We inspect at handover rather than waiting for the next compliance audit, which is how a defect gets fixed while the contractor who created it is still on the job and still contactable. Left until the audit, the same defect usually lands back on the centre.
We work back of house and leave no trace out front
The shopfront is not the job. The job is the service corridor, the riser cupboards, the loading dock, the plant rooms and the ceiling void — and getting to those and out again without a customer ever seeing a ladder. The space is clean and trading-ready before the doors open, every night.
What you get from us
- Penetration sealing and rectification through tenancy demising walls and back-of-house corridors.
- Fire doors to service corridors, stair pressurisation, plant rooms and loading docks.
- Fire-rated construction where a fitout changes the compartment or a new opening is formed.
- Handover inspection at tenancy change, so the incoming fitout starts from a known condition.
- Defect rectification across a centre, staged by trading hours rather than by trade.
- Records held per tenancy, so the centre keeps the history as tenants come and go.
The conditions we plan for
- Trading hours — Most work is after close. Access, security escorts and a hard finish time each night shape the programme.
- Reinstatement — The area is handed back clean and trading-ready by opening. That is the standard the work is planned and priced to, and it is the first thing we check before the crew leaves.
- Hot works and alarms — Isolations get booked, and a false alarm in a shopping centre is an expensive mistake.
- Many small areas, one register — We price a centre-wide programme, which costs less than the same work done tenancy by tenancy as each one goes wrong.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
- Do you work overnight?
- Routinely. In trading centres it is usually the only workable window.
- Can you inspect a tenancy between tenants?
- Yes, and that is the cheapest time to do it — the ceiling is open and the space is empty.
- Who is responsible for a penetration made by a previous tenant's contractor?
- That is a question for the lease and the centre, not for us. What we can do is record exactly what is there and what it would take to put it right.
- Can you cover a whole centre?
- Yes. A centre-wide baseline gives management one register rather than a file per tenancy.
Drawings, photos or a defect report in front of you?
Send what you already have. We will tell you what else is needed before the work can be reviewed, priced or booked for site inspection.