Office and commercial
clearance in Bristol
Offices, shops and small units come with a lease that says what condition to leave it in, a building with rules about lifts and loading, and a business that still has to run. Tell us the deadline and the access, and we will plan around both.
Monday to Saturday, nine to five. A Saturday clear often suits a unit that trades in the week.
- Monday to Saturday, 9 to 5
Early, late in the day, or a Saturday when you are closed - Staged if you need it
Floor by floor, or the back office before the shop floor - No overnight work
Access hours are usually the landlord’s to set, so ask them first
Clearing around a business that is still running
Very few of these jobs happen in an empty building. Part of the office is still working, the shop is still trading, and the unit next door has its own delivery slot. So the order matters: the rooms you have finished with go first, the route out stays protected, and what is left stays usable.
In central Bristol the building sets the terms. Service lifts get booked, loading bays have windows, and a van on Park Street at the wrong hour is a fine rather than a clearance. Tell us what the building management requires and we will work to it.
Two decisions to make before the van arrives
Make them with the list in front of you, not with a van outside. We clear around whatever you hold back, and we will not quietly make the call for you.
Electrical equipment
By law it stays out of the general waste and goes to an approved treatment facility. Tell us what is in the unit and it is planned in from the start.
- Monitors, PCs and servers
- Printers and phones
- Kitchen appliances
- Lighting
Anything holding information
Each item needs a deliberate choice: keep it, wipe it, or send it to a specialist. We will not treat a hard drive as scrap because it was next to a broken chair.
- Computers and phones
- Copiers and some printers
- Filing cabinets nobody has opened in years
We do not offer certified data destruction. If an auditor needs certificates, use a specialist shredding firm for those items and clear the rest with us.
The landlord wants it stripped to shell
That is partly a clearance. Send us the dilapidations schedule and we will tell you plainly which half of it we can do.
| We clear | Needs the right contractor |
|---|---|
| Furniture, desks and chairs | Anything structural |
| Fixtures, shelving and counters | Electrical work and disconnections |
| Carpet tiles and signage | Anything needing a trade certificate |
| Stock, display fittings and tills | Certified data destruction |
How a commercial clearance is planned
Start from the lease
What does the landlord require at handover: cleared, stripped to shell, fixtures out, floor coverings up? That defines the job more than the contents do.
List the contents and the data
Furniture, IT, fit-out, signage and stock, plus a separate list of anything holding information. The second list is the one that needs decisions.
Book the access
Loading bay, service lift, building access hours, city-centre loading restrictions and parking. In central Bristol this is often the hardest part.
Clear in the agreed order
Staged or in one pass, with the areas you are still using protected and usable throughout.
What an office clearance costs
Priced by the van load, the same list for offices, shops and units.
Minimum load
A desk, a chair and a couple of boxes
£50
Quarter van load
A one or two-desk office, or a back room
£120
Half van load
A small office or treatment room cleared
£200
Three-quarter van load
A shop floor’s fixtures, or five or six desks
£320
Full van load
A small unit cleared throughout
£400
More than one van load
Larger offices, shops and strip-to-shell jobs, quoted after a visit
Firm quote
Guide prices carry a 15% range either way until we have seen the contents.
Questions businesses ask first
Can electrical equipment go in the general waste?
No. Electrical and electronic equipment is covered by its own rules, the WEEE regulations, and has to be kept separate and routed to an approved treatment facility. That covers monitors, PCs, servers, printers, phones, kitchen appliances and lighting. Tell us what electricals are in the unit and they are planned in from the start.
What do you do with hard drives and confidential paperwork?
We do not offer certified data destruction, and we will not pretend otherwise. If you need certificates of destruction to satisfy an auditor or your data protection obligations, use a specialist shredding and IT asset disposal firm for those items, and clear the rest with us. In practice, most businesses keep the data-bearing kit back and let us take everything else.
Can you work outside trading hours?
Within Monday to Saturday, nine to five, we will work around your opening times: early, late in the day, or on a Saturday when the unit is closed. Overnight work is not something we offer. Say what your building allows, because access hours are usually set by the landlord rather than by you.
The landlord wants it stripped back to shell. Is that a clearance?
Partly. Removing fixtures, shelving, counters, carpet tiles and signage is clearance work. Anything structural, electrical or requiring a trade certificate is not, and needs the relevant contractor. Send us the dilapidations schedule and we will tell you plainly which half of it we can do.
Do you clear shops and small units as well as offices?
Yes. Retail units, salons, studios, workshops and storage units are the same job with different contents. Remaining stock, display fittings, tills and signage all get cleared; anything with resale value is worth deciding about before the day rather than after it.
Tell us the date somebody else set
The lease end, the completion or the Monday the refit starts. We plan back from it.
