Use this checklist to plan a strip-out and avoid the most common, and most expensive, oversights.
1. Obligations
- Read the lease reinstatement and yield-up clauses
- Get any dilapidations schedule reviewed by your surveyor
- Confirm the hand-back date and access arrangements
2. Inventory and value
- List racking, mezzanines, MHE, machinery and stock
- Photograph everything and collect frame labels and model plates
- Get value assessed before deciding what is waste
3. Services and safety
- Arrange isolation of power, gas, water and compressed air
- Identify asbestos from the building's asbestos register
- Confirm fire and security arrangements for the strip-out period
4. Programme and records
- Agree a phased programme if you are still operating
- Ask for waste transfer documentation
- Get photographic completion records for your surveyor
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