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Cre8tive Interiors : The Best Company for Dilapidation Work in the South West

If you’re seeking a partner in the South West who genuinely understands the challenges and nuances of dilapidation work, Cre8tive Interiors is the name you want to remember. With more than two decades of experience creating, restoring and reconditioning commercial spaces, Cre8tive Interiors has carved out a reputation for reliability, careful project management, and a deep commitment to doing things properly.

To begin with, what sets Cre8tive Interiors apart is their complete grasp of the full lifecycle of commercial interiors, not just from a creative or aesthetic standpoint but from a legal, structural and contractual buffer. They don’t just walk in, paint a few walls, and hope for the best. They understand that dilapidation work — meaning the restoration of a premises back to a landlord’s required condition at the end of a lease — requires a precise blend of technical knowledge, regulatory compliance, attention to detail, and seamless coordination. On their services page you’ll see that “dilapidation works for offices and warehouses” is one of the core offerings.

Because Cre8tive Interiors is based in Devizes (Unit 7 Devizes Trade Centre, Hopton Park Industrial Estate, SN10 2EH), they are intimately familiar with the towns and cities of Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Dorset, and they use that geographic strength to deliver efficiently, without the uncertainty that sometimes comes from distant contractors.

One of the great advantages is that they bring together design, refurbishment, partitioning, fire protection, ceilings, structural alterations, and, crucially, the legal, health & safety and CDM (Construction Design & Management) responsibilities under one roof. In short, you don’t have to juggle multiple contractors, each pointing fingers at one another. Cre8tive handles contractor coordination, method statements, risk assessments, procuring insurance and ensuring compliance. Their article on project management outlines how they take responsibility for organising, sequencing, and controlling trades, meaning clients spend their time on their business, not chasing subcontractors.

Consider a company vacating office space in Swindon. Landlords commonly demand that the premises be restored to a given standard, walls repainted, partitioning removed or reinstated, electrical work tidied up, ceiling tiles replaced, and so on. That is exactly where Cre8tive Interiors’ dilapidation projects come in as a demonstration of their track record. They didn’t just superficially patch up; they stripped back, replaced fire protection systems, offered new suspended ceilings, redid column encasements and ensured the premises could meet rigorous inspection standards.

 

Heading west, Cre8tive has delivered projects across Bath, Taunton, Bridgwater, and Weston-super-Mare. These areas are at the edge of their reach but still within scope, and they’ve successfully completed dilapidation and refurbishment works there for businesses requiring high standards of compliance and finish.

Equally, moving east along the M4 corridor there are many businesses in Reading and Newbury, where dilapidation requirements are frequent due to office turnover. Cre8tive Interiors also covers Cirencester, Tewkesbury and Gloucester, ensuring that businesses in these key regional hubs have a dependable partner when it comes to end-of-lease responsibilities. Dorset, too, is well served, with Poole and its surrounding areas falling within their active project footprint.

The choice of Cre8tive Interiors also gives peace of mind when it comes to standards and responsibility. Dilapidation work isn’t cosmetic. It can involve structural repairs, fire ratings, reinstatement of services, integration with building regulations, and legal obligations. Cre8tive’s team is used to handling all of that behind the scenes, so you don’t have to worry whether one contractor forgot to liaise with another. Their about us page emphasises that Cre8tive combines engineering, planning and design sensibilities, and that their credentials allow them to handle regulatory and specification challenges with confidence.

Moreover, many clients underestimate how time consuming dilapidations can be. Cre8tive’s project management expertise becomes a differentiator. By filing the required notifications (for longer projects, the F10 notice under CDM), ensuring every subcontractor is properly insured, monitoring health & safety and coordinating the various trades, they reduce cost overruns and delays. Their project management blog spells out their philosophy in detail.

Another factor is their emphasis on quality and aftercare. They don’t deliver a substandard patch job just to tick boxes; they are committed to do the work properly. In their Swindon case, they didn’t just patch or repaint; they stripped and replaced fire protection materials to ensure full compliance rather than taking shortcuts.

If you explore more in their knowledge hub you’ll see posts and articles that help clients understand the various facets of fit outs, refurbishments, partitions and dilapidations. This educational transparency means clients feel informed, not left in the dark.

Why choose them over small “one man band” outfits in, say, Taunton or Bridgwater? Because when things get complex, involving multiple trades, fire rating, H&S and contract clauses, you want a team with breadth, experience, liability coverage, and a proven track record. Smaller firms may cut costs, but when a defect arises or a landlord disputes your handover, you’ll wish you had a firm that knew those pitfalls in advance. Cre8tive has that institutional knowledge built over more than twenty years.

 

In Bristol, for example, companies often turn to dilapidation specialists who focus only on reinstatement. Cre8tive’s advantage is you don’t just get one piece of the puzzle, you get full service restoration and transformation from their services hub, including partitioning, ceilings, fit out, and design.

If you want to contact them directly to discuss a dilapidation project in Swindon, Bath, Taunton, Bridgwater, Weston-super-Mare, Reading, Newbury, Cirencester, Tewkesbury, Gloucester or Poole, you can use their contact page to reach the team, or ring 01380 73 88 44.

In summary, if your business needs a dependable, capable and regionally grounded team to execute dilapidation work in the South West, Cre8tive Interiors is uniquely qualified. They combine design flair with technical grounding, regulatory know how, contractor coordination and quality standards. Whether your premises lie in Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Taunton, Reading, Newbury, Gloucester or Dorset, you benefit from their local presence, regional reach and deep experience.

The best thing to do if you are not sure what to do is to pick up the phone or email and we will see whether we can help.

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All Project Categories Dilapidation work Mezzanine Floors Office Refurbishments Suspended Ceilings

Dilapidation Work in Swindon

Client: REPL
Value: £25k

We can carry out Dilapidation work for customers when the customer is required to carry out work by a landlord if they are moving premises, please see our post for more description about what it means by clicking this link.

We carried out quite a major change visually to a worn out factory that looked tired and needed sprucing up. The main elements were a new factory floor, decoration, refurbishment of the offices, and to tidy up the existing mezzanine floor. The existing fire protection on the steel work was not adequate and not fitted correctly, so rather than just paint it, we decided to completely strip it off and install a new fire rated suspended ceiling and a new column encasement system. A quick lick of paint would not have satisfied the fire protection requirements so we decide to do this properly and install all of the correct materials.

Existing Warehouse

The customer has been in the existing building for many years and the unit the occupy is part of the original railway buildings in Swindon, so is probably around 100 years old. As you can see from the photos the the building was quite dilapidated, and this is often referred to as dilapidation work.

Old mezzanine floor

Electrics need sorting!

Wider view

Lots of wires need sorting

Some wires not connected!

Poor fire protection

Poor walls

Toilet to be reduced in size

Toilet block to sort

Kitchen to come out

What was most alarming was the existing fire protection had been carried out by people who clearly did not know what they were doing and there were gaps everywhere, there was no way that the mezzanine floor had adequate protection, so even though the customer just wanted a very basic patch and mend, we took the decision to completely replace everything and do the whole job properly.

Although the photographs do not show it, there was quite a bit of work to completely redecorate the offices at the front of the unit. This included stripping out the kitchen, toilets, stairs, repainting the doors, walls, ceilings and skirting boards.

Construction work

The other constraint that we had is the whole job had to be completed in 3 weeks as a new machine was due to arrive in the unit. The reason why the toilet block had to be halved, was that the new machine was 26 meters long and so it would not quite fit.

Toilet door moved back

Poor state of mezzanine

Steel work being exposed

Exteriors walls bad

Plasterboard stripped out

More stripped

Bottom office demolished

New fire line board bulkhead

Starting wall treatment

Toilet halved

Walls nearly done

Walls nearly done

Our van

Completed Photographs.

We were very pleased with the final results as there was such a difference between what was, and what we achieved in the end. The client was also very pleased with the work as we completed it on time and within budget.

New tea point downstairs

New floor

Office decorated

New ceiling

Toilets redecorated

Our van

Internal doors painted

Finished floor

Fire exit door

New equipment just coming in

View from other direction

Finishing things properly

On top of mezzanine

New fire rated ceiling

Dilapidation Work

As you can see from the photographs, the work is general office refurbishment, and covers all of the things that we would carry out for office interiors. If you have any requirements for dilapidation work that is relevant to offices or warehouses then we would be very pleased to hear from you, as we find this type of work very rewarding, and that is not from a monetary view but seeing the difference between old and new.

Please call 01380 73 88 44, or use the contact us form on our website.

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All Project Categories Dilapidation work Featured Office Refurbishments Partitioning Projects Suspended Ceilings Uncategorized

Dilapidation Work in Reading

Client: The House of God Evangelical Church
Value: £100k

Dilapidation Work

The House of God Evangelical Church needed us to carry out some Dilapidation work in Reading.

We carry out dilapidation work occasionally and is very similar to the general term of office refurbishments. We carry out this work when a client leaves their current building and it has to be put back to an original state. In this case, the state of the building over three floors was pretty bad, but in essence it just needed all of the things that we currently do. Stripping out, new suspended ceilings, dry lining, painting and decorating, flooring work, demountable partitioning, fitting a small kitchen and minor structural work.

As we were doing the work the client asked us to build some new offices on one of the floors and we constructed the walls from demountable partitioning. Some finished photographs are shown below.

Existing state of the building

As you can see from the photographs below the building needed quite a bit of work doing to it, nothing unusual to what we normally do, just quite a bit of it.

Finished photographs.

Unfortunately we did not get to many finished photographs for this project, please find some below.

Why Demountable Partitioning?

  1. Demountable partitioning is tax efficient in that they are seen as movable items and so can be treated differently in writing down allowances in the accounts.
  2. We can also lease Demountable Partitioning as they are movable, this spreads the costs of having the work done as Demountable Partitions always cost more than customers think.
  3. Leasing of demountable partitioning is very tax efficient and Cre8tive can provide illustrations, please contact us for further information.
  4. Most landlords insist on demountable partitions being used for offices as it is much easier to take them out should the tenant renting the space leave for any reason. The benefit is that is saves making a huge amount of mess and destruction that would be need with a conventional stud and plasterboard constructed wall.

Questions on Demountable Partitioning?

If you are not sure about anything we love to talk about projects and sort out problems and issues with space, please give us a call on 01380 738844