End of Lease Make Good and Defit on the Gold Coast
Gold Coast make good: We read the make good clause and the schedule of condition first
- We read the make good clause and the schedule of condition first
- Fitout out, services capped, patch and paint to the lease standard
- Night and weekend work in trading centres and occupied buildings
- Weighbridge dockets and a handover walk with the building manager
For tenants with a lease end date, property managers chasing a handback, landlords who want base building back, and fitout builders who need the old fitout gone. One contract and one fixed price, priced to the make good schedule.
Or call 07 2145 6581Send us the Gold Coast make good clause
The clause, the schedule and the address, and our Queensland team will be in touch.
Lease ending on the Gold Coast? The date is fixed, so we work back from it
A commercial lease ends on a date, and the make good has to be finished before the keys go back. Tenants want the fitout gone and the landlord signed off. Property managers and agents want a handback that passes inspection first time. Landlords want base building back for the next tenant. Fitout builders want the old fitout out before their trades arrive. We do the same job for all four.
The tenancies we are asked about on the Gold Coast are offices in Southport Central and around the Southport CBD, in Bundall, Robina and Varsity Lakes, shops and food tenancies in Pacific Fair at Broadbeach, Robina Town Centre and Australia Fair, strip retail in Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, on James Street at Burleigh Heads and in Coolangatta, warehouses and industrial units at Yatala, Ormeau, Molendinar, Burleigh Heads and Currumbin Waters, medical suites around the Gold Coast University Hospital precinct at Southport, Robina and Tugun, and hotel food and beverage tenancies along the coast strip.
We read the make good clause and the schedule before we price
Make good means reinstating the tenancy to the condition set out in the lease. Some leases call for base building condition. Others only call for removal of your fitout. The make good schedule and the schedule of condition from the start of the lease say which one you have, so we read those before we price rather than after.
We do not give legal advice on what the lease means. Your solicitor or agent settles that. We price the work in the clause and the schedule, and flag anything unclear at quote stage. You get one fixed price for the defit and the make good together, so there is no gap between the trade that stripped the tenancy and the trade that patches and paints. The bank guarantee or bond handback follows the landlord's sign off, so the job is built around getting that sign off first time.
What comes out and what goes back
Out: partitions, ceilings, joinery, floor coverings, workstations, kitchens, data and cabling, signage, shopfront joinery, counters, kitchen exhaust and cool rooms. Services are isolated and capped by licensed electrical, plumbing and mechanical trades, then tagged at handover. We coordinate those trades, we do not certify in our own name.
Back: patching and painting to the lease standard, ceiling tiles and lighting where the schedule calls for them, penetrations made good, floor finishes as the lease describes. Then a final clean, ready for the landlord's agent to walk. Near new workstations, glazed partitions or joinery can be set aside rather than skipped, if agreed at quote stage.
Everything else is sorted into metal, timber, plasterboard, carpet and general waste, weighed and recycled where possible. The waste removal and recycling records come with the handover pack.
How a make good job runs
- Documents in. The make good clause, the schedule, the schedule of condition if you have it, and photos or the address.
- Price. Site walk or drawings. One fixed price with a costed method.
- Building and centre management. Method statement and programme to the manager. Inductions, permits, dock and lift bookings handled by us. Night and weekend shifts where the building or centre requires them, with night rates in the price.
- Services. Before photos of every room, then services isolated and capped by licensed trades before anything comes off the wall.
- Strip. Partitions, ceilings, joinery, floor coverings, signage and fitout out. Floors and lifts protected, dust screened, tenancy presentable after every shift.
- Reinstate. Patch, paint and make good the penetrations to the lease standard.
- Handover. Final clean, after photos, weighbridge dockets and recycling records, then the walk with the building manager so anything on the list is fixed on the spot.
Asbestos in wall sheeting, vinyl or ceiling tiles is handled under licences held within the group, with clearance by the independent assessor. We are fully insured with ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certified management systems, see licences and insurance. Small jobs are welcome: one shop, one suite, one level. The Gold Coast is under an hour down the M1 from our Slacks Creek yard, so the crew, bins and compact plant are local. Hotel and tower tenancies mean a booked dock and noisy work kept to the hours the building allows. Carlos and the Queensland team answer the phone locally.
Jobs we can show you
The jobs we can show you are in Sydney. Our Queensland crew works to the same method, and we give Queensland references on request. Quadric's Estimating Manager called our recent Queensland job "the cleanest demolition site they have ever seen".
The true end of lease make good we can show you is in Rosehill. Unita brought us in after Fuji Xerox ended a long tenure in a 5,000 square metre warehouse: furniture, cool rooms and floor coverings out, retained items palletised, a steel mezzanine removed with the floor protected, and the slab ground and sealed for the next tenant. At 321 Kent Street in the Sydney CBD we took ten office levels back to base for the Dexus managed building after the tenant had gone.
The rest is strip outs for fitout builders rather than make goods, and we describe them that way: a retail strip out at 141 to 147 King Street in the CBD, four food court shops at Sydney Airport, six office levels in Chatswood, Toys R Us at Westfield Chatswood, two office levels in North Ryde, International House at Sydney University, and a live hospital strip out at Bulli.
Handing back a tenancy on the Gold Coast?
Send us the clause, the schedule, the address and the lease end date. Call 07 2145 6581 or use the form above.
We also do this work in Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast. See commercial strip outs, office and shop defit in Brisbane and South East Queensland or commercial strip out on the Gold Coast for the pre fitout end of the job.
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