Commercial strip outs are what we do most, and what we are best at.
Multi level office towers in the city, retail tenancies in centres, shop fitout strip outs and defits, hospitals, schools and industrial buildings. Back to base, soft strip, or selective structural removal with the building staying live around us.
We work Sydney and greater NSW out of Marrickville, Brisbane and South East Queensland out of Slacks Creek, and we travel up and down the East Coast for the right job.
We started in strip outs in 2010 and we have never stopped doing them. That is the difference between a demolition contractor who will take a strip out if it comes along, and a strip out contractor.
Services
Commercial Strip Out
Offices, retail tenancies, hospitals and schools. Multi level buildings in Sydney, Brisbane and along the East Coast.
Shop Fitout Strip Out
Retail defits and make good, in centres and on strips, worked to centre management hours and rules.
Industrial Strip Out
Warehouses, factories and plant rooms. Plant disconnection, racking, services and structure.
Soft Strip Out
Linings, ceilings, partitions, floor coverings and services stripped back without touching the structure.
Back to Base
Everything out down to slab, column and core, ready for the new fitout to set out on a clean floor.
Make Good
End of lease reinstatement to the schedule, with the photos and sign off the landlord will ask for.
Experience
Since 2010 we have delivered hundreds of strip out projects, from single tenancies to full building back to base.
Delivering on significant flagship projects including Town Hall Train Station, Circular Quay Train Station, Sydney International Airport, Northwest Rapid Transit, Parramatta Light Rail and Sydney Metro.
Backed by a team of skilled estimators, project managers, site managers and tradesmen, our team are reliable, highly qualified professionals who work hard to deliver truly exceptional service and quality projects for our clients.With a long history of innovation, the Perfect team is dedicated to the delivery of world-class client outcomes. We foster an energetic culture that encourages dynamic thinking and the use of technology to achieve intelligent solutions. This progressive environment makes conditions safer, more sustainable and have the utmost efficiency.
Approach
Fleet
Perfect operates its own fleet of heavy-duty state-of-the-art machinery ranging from nimble 0.8t excavators to large positracks to 35t excavators.
Additionally we operate an armada of hook trucks and skips, tippers, EWP's, forklifts, Brokks, lifts, scaffolding and almost every tool known to man.
With our continued investment in emerging technologies, safety and innovation, Perfect's service scope ranges from the simple & straightforward to the thoroughly technical to the downright demanding.
People
The key to Perfect's continual success is down to one key factor, Our People.
Our crews are the ones out there doing the hard graft every single day, ensuring your project gets delivered on time, every time. Because that's what we do. We get it done.
From management and operations to engineering and estimating to supervisors and ground workers, Perfect Strip Out & Demolition hires only the best. Continual improvement processes ensure regular training, new tickets and upskilling.
Projects
Status: in progress. Client: Unita. Location: Brunswick Street, New Farm QLD, an old single storey corner shop being rebuilt inside its original walls. Scope: strip out, commercial demolition and excavation,
April to June 2026. Location: Clydesdale Estate, Marsden Park NSW. Client: Gartner Rose. Scope: lead dust removal from ceiling spaces, lead paint removal, asbestos removal, then demolition of old sheds,
Staged works, April to August 2026. Location: an industrial warehouse and storage yard at Seven Hills NSW. Scope: staged saw cutting, breaking out and removal of a large reinforced concrete
Status: complete. Client: Joss Facility Management. Location: a multi storey government office building on Auburn Street, Goulburn NSW. Scope: strip out of the amenities blocks on the lower ground, ground,
Status: complete. Client: JMC Builders. Location: a landmark high rise apartment tower in Darlinghurst NSW. Scope: two full apartment strip outs back to slab, blockwork and soffit ahead of new
Status: complete. Client: CIP Constructions. Location: 18 Forrester Street, Kingsgrove NSW, a light industrial site with a warehouse and distribution facility still trading. Scope: demolition and clearance of the rear
What a multi level strip out actually takes
A tower strip out is not a bigger version of a small one. It is a logistics job with demolition attached.
You get one or two lifts, a loading dock with a booking sheet, a waste stream that has to leave the building through a chute or a hoist, and a building full of tenants who are still coming to work. The programme lives or dies on how many tonnes an hour you can get out of the building, not on how fast you can pull a ceiling down.
So we plan it from the dock backwards. Bin movements, chute location, lift bookings, out of hours windows, protection to lift cars and lobbies, and a crew size that matches what the building can physically absorb. Then we strip to suit that.
On a live building we also plan the noise. Loud work goes into the agreed window, quiet work fills the day, and the building manager gets told what is happening before the complaints start rather than after.
Shop fitout strip outs and defits
Retail is its own discipline. Centre management induction, a strict work window that usually starts after trade, a hoarding that has to look presentable, and a handover condition written into the lease.
The trap on a defit is the make good schedule. What has to come out, what has to be reinstated, what the landlord will accept as original condition, and who owns the shopfront. We read the schedule before we price rather than after, because that is where the argument usually starts.
We work retail in Sydney and in Brisbane and South East Queensland, including centre work where the tenancy has to be clean and hoarded before trade the next morning.
Asbestos and hazardous material, handled in house
Anything built before the 1990s can have bonded or friable asbestos in it. Vinyl tiles and their glue, fire doors, electrical backing boards, pipe lagging, wall sheeting, and roof and eave sheets.
We are part of Perfect Group, so a hazmat find does not stop the job while you go and engage somebody else. Survey, removal under our own licences, clearance certificate, waste dockets, and the strip out carries on.
That single fact is usually worth more to a programme than any rate on a page.
Straight answers on price
The three things that move a strip out price are access, hours and waste. Not the square metres.
A ground floor tenancy with a roller door you can back a truck into is a different job from level 14 with one service lift and a 9pm start. Tell us the access and the hours you can work and you will get a number that holds.
Sydney 02 7908 4944. Brisbane and South East Queensland 07 2145 6581.
FAQs
What is the difference between a strip out and a defit?
Nothing much. Defit is the word retail and Queensland use, strip out is the word most of the Sydney market uses. Both mean taking a tenancy back to a base condition. Make good is the related one, and that means reinstating to a condition set out in the lease.
Can you work while the building is occupied?
Yes, and most of our tower work is like that. It means out of hours or restricted hours, noise and dust control, protection to lifts and common areas, and a lot of coordination with building management. We will tell you what it does to the programme before you commit.
Do you handle the asbestos if we find some?
Yes. We hold the licences within the group, including friable. Survey, removal, clearance and disposal, all in house, so your programme does not stop while another contractor is engaged.
Do you work in Brisbane as well as Sydney?
Yes. We run a yard in Marrickville and one in Slacks Creek, and we take work up and down the East Coast. Same crews, same systems, same insurances.
How quickly can you start?
On a small tenancy, often within the week. On a tower, the honest answer is that the induction, the dock bookings and the approvals usually set the date, not us. Ring us and we will tell you what the real lead time looks like.
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Commercial strip outs by city: Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast. Offices, shops, clubs and whole floors stripped back to structure in trading centres.
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Make good and defit by city
We have written a page for each of the areas we cover most, with the local number and the tenancies we see there. End of lease make good and defit in Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.
Perfect Stripout & Demolition acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Traditional Custodians of the country on which we live and work. We pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians and Elders past, present and future, and honour their connection to the land and ongoing contribution to society.