Office Strip-Out
Partitions, ceilings, flooring, joinery, workstations and server rooms removed — cleared back to base building.
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Back to base building
Commercial Strip-Out
& Office Defit
Internal demolition, soft strip and defit — we take commercial, retail and industrial spaces back to base building, and because we’re Class B asbestos licensed, bonded ACM comes out in the same contract. No stop-work, no second contractor, no programme blowout.
- Licensed AD214755
- Fully Insured
- SafeWork Compliant
- Disposal Dockets Provided
Certified
WHS prequalified · ID 97024
Strip-out & defit
Cleared, Compliant, Handed Back Ready
From a single office strip out to a full-floor defit, HazWreck strips commercial, retail and industrial spaces back to base building — fitout, fixtures, services and finishes removed, waste carted to EPA-licensed facilities, and the space handed back clean and ready for the next trade. Because we hold a SafeWork NSW Class B asbestos licence, we remove bonded asbestos inside the same contract. No stop-work, no second contractor, no programme blowout when the walls come down and there’s ACM behind them.
Only the contents going — furniture, files, IT — with the fitout staying put? That’s an office clean-out: a lighter job we price from photos, run after hours where the building needs it. Racing a lease-end date with rubbish and abandoned goods in the way? That’s our end of lease clearance lane. Not sure which your lease demands? Ask — we scope all three.
Capability
What We Strip Out
Retail & Hospitality
Shopfronts, counters, commercial kitchens, cool rooms and signage stripped out, ready for the next tenant.
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Warehouse & Industrial
Mezzanines, racking, offices, amenities and redundant plant removed from warehouse and industrial sites.
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End-of-Lease Defit
Complete removal of the outgoing tenant’s fitout — meeting your make-good and end-of-lease obligations.
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- Licensed Class B asbestos removal — bonded ACM in wall sheet, vinyl, eaves, switchboards and fire doors, removed as part of the strip-out
- End-of-lease tenancy defit — complete removal of the outgoing tenant’s fitout
- Office strip-out — partitions, ceilings, flooring, joinery, workstations, server rooms
- Retail & hospitality strip-out — shopfronts, counters, commercial kitchens, cool rooms, signage
- Warehouse & industrial strip-out — mezzanines, racking, offices, amenities, redundant plant
- Pre-refurbishment strip — clearing tired space so a new fitout starts clean
- Soft-strip & non-structural demolition — internal removal back to base building
- Waste streaming & EPA-licensed disposal — full dockets supplied on completion
Common situations
How We Handle the Common Jobs
Most commercial strip-out work comes down to a deadline, a refit, or a surprise behind the walls. Here’s how we approach each.
End-of-lease make-good deadline
Lease ending with a make-good clause to meet? We strip the tenancy back to base building to your lease schedule, handle any asbestos found in the fitout, grind the slab free of glue and coatings where the lease demands bare concrete, and hand it back clean with disposal dockets and clearance — so you meet the deadline and the obligation without a dispute.
Pre-refurbishment strip
Refitting a space? We soft-strip the old fitout — partitions, ceilings, services, finishes — back to a clean shell so your new fitout starts on schedule, with the messy, regulated part already handled.
Asbestos found mid-project
Found bonded ACM behind the walls once work started? Because we’re Class B licensed (AD214755), we remove it under the same contract and keep the programme moving — no stop-work, no scramble for a second contractor, no blowout.
The detail
Our Strip-Out & Defit Process, Step by Step
Every commercial strip-out runs to a programme, and ours starts before we’re on site. We walk the space, confirm scope against your lease schedule or fitout plan, flag any asbestos or services risk, and give you a named, itemised quote you can actually read.
On site, we isolate and protect what stays — base building, lifts, common areas, live tenancies next door — set up containment and waste streams, and strip in a planned sequence: loose fit and joinery first, then services, ceilings, partitions and flooring back to base building. Bonded asbestos, where present, is removed under our Class B licence as we go.
We finish with a clean sweep, remove every bin and bundle, and hand back a clear shell with disposal dockets and — where asbestos was involved — clearance documentation. Ready for the next trade, the incoming tenant, or the handover inspection.
Strip-Out vs Defit vs Make-Good — What’s the Difference?
The terms get used interchangeably, but they mean slightly different things. A strip-out clears a commercial space back to base building — fitout, fixtures, services and finishes removed. A defit is the same work driven by a lease ending: removing the outgoing tenant’s fitout. A make-good is meeting the specific reinstatement obligations in your lease — which might be a full defit back to base, or returning the space to an agreed condition. We read your lease schedule, tell you plainly which one you actually need, and quote to that — not to whatever’s easiest to bill.
Commercial Internal Demolition & Soft Strip
Most of what a commercial strip-out actually involves is internal demolition: the non-structural removal of everything a tenant or a previous fitout added to a base building. On a typical HazWreck programme that means partition walls and glazing, suspended ceilings and grid, floor coverings and adhesives, joinery and built-in furniture, kitchenettes and amenities, and the services strip — redundant cabling, ducting, pipework and fixtures — back to the slab, the soffit and the base-building services. The space is handed back as a clean shell, with the structure, fire services and base-building services untouched and documented.
Commercial work is rarely done in an empty building, so the programme is built around the people still in it. We stage work around trading hours and tenants, run overnight and weekend shifts where a centre or an occupied floor cannot close, coordinate access, lifts, loading docks and waste windows with building management, and protect common areas and the live tenancies next door. Our World Gym Penrith programme ran six consecutive nights inside a trading gym; the Westfield Miranda tenancy was stripped to base building in a single overnight shift before the centre reopened. Where a live-building protocol is needed, we bring one rather than improvise it.
Older commercial buildings hide bonded asbestos behind the fitout — wall sheeting, vinyl and its backing, switchboard backing boards, fire doors. Because we hold a SafeWork NSW Class B licence (AD214755), bonded, non-friable material is removed under the same contract: we lodge the SafeWork NSW Form 65 notification (five calendar days’ notice for Class B work), dispose of it at an EPA-licensed facility with dockets supplied, and arrange the asbestos clearance certificate on completion. One contractor for the demolition, the asbestos and the paperwork, rather than three. If friable material is found, we stop and advise the correct licensed path — we do not work outside our Class B licence.
We are CM3 prequalified (ID 97024, valid to 1 June 2027) — the contractor WHS prequalification that principal contractors, government agencies and major asset owners require before a subcontractor is engaged — so SWMS, inductions and insurances are in order before we are on site. And we do not publish a “from $X” for commercial internal demolition, because there is no honest one: the price depends on floor area, fitout density, after-hours staging, waste streams and whether asbestos is present. Every commercial job is scope-priced after a site inspection and quoted as a fixed, itemised scope you can read.
Asbestos Inside Commercial Fitouts
Commercial and industrial buildings hide bonded asbestos in places people don’t expect — wall sheeting and partitions, vinyl floor tiles and their backing, eaves, switchboards and electrical backing boards, and fire doors. In an older building it’s common to uncover it once the fitout starts coming out.
Most strip-out crews have to stop and bring in a separate licensed removalist, which costs time and money. HazWreck holds a SafeWork NSW Class B asbestos licence (AD214755), so we remove bonded ACM as part of the same job and keep going — see our asbestos removal page for how that’s handled. Friable material is Class A; if we find it, we stop, advise you and arrange the correct licensed path.
Waste Streaming & EPA-Licensed Disposal
A commercial strip-out generates serious volume, and how it’s handled affects your cost, your programme and your compliance. We stream waste on site — recycling metal, timber and clean fill where we can, and disposing of general and regulated waste at EPA-licensed facilities. Asbestos waste is double-wrapped, labelled, tracked and disposed of lawfully, with dockets supplied on completion. You get a clean site and a documented paper trail.
Working Around Your Trade, Lease Deadline & Building Management
Commercial work rarely happens in an empty building. We work around trading hours where needed — including overnight and weekends — to avoid disrupting your business, your members or neighbouring tenancies. We coordinate with building management on access, loading docks, lifts and out-of-hours protocols, and we keep to your lease deadline. We also handle demolition under the same roof when a strip-out turns structural, and concrete grinding when the make-good says “back to bare slab” — the glue and coatings ground off while the crew and bins are still on site.
Cost guide
What a Commercial Strip-Out Costs in Sydney
Commercial strip-outs and defits are priced on scope, not a flat rate — every tenancy is different. Rather than a misleading “from $X,” we quote each job properly after a site walk-through.
Price is driven by the floor area, how dense and built-out the fitout is, whether asbestos is present, whether work has to run after hours or in stages around a live building, and how the waste streams out. What you always get is a fixed, itemised, named-scope quote — a quote you can read, with honest exclusions and real figures for variations. No day-rates, no “we’ll sort it on site.”
Every commercial quote is fixed, itemised and scoped to your lease or fitout plan after a site assessment.
Why HazWreck
A Contractor That Closes Jobs Out
One contractor, asbestos included
Licensed to find and remove bonded ACM inside the same job — no stop-work, no second mobilisation, no second invoice.
Clean hand-back
Space cleared, waste gone, disposal dockets and clearance certificates in your hand, ready for the next trade.
Compliance handled end to end
Form 65 notifications, SWMS, waste tracking and hygienist coordination managed by us — you chase nothing.
Quotes you can read
Named scope, honest exclusions and real dollar figures for variations. No “we’ll sort it on site.”
Run on systems
Quoting, scheduling, compliance and job tracking in one connected stack — a contractor that communicates and closes jobs out.
Who we work for
Built for Commercial Programmes
- Commercial property owners, landlords and asset managers
- Commercial real estate agents and leasing managers
- Strata and facilities managers
- Fitout companies and commercial builders / head contractors
- Outgoing tenants meeting end-of-lease obligations
- Government, institutional and social-housing property
Recent commercial work
World Gym, Penrith — Overnight Strip-Out & Demolition
A commercial strip-out and demolition carried out overnight while the gym stayed open and trading — cleared back to base building, asbestos handled in the same contract, and handed back clean.
“We used HazWreck for a commercial strip-out and demolition at our World Gym, carried out overnight while the gym stayed operational. The crew were professional, clean and completely unobtrusive — management and members didn’t even know they’d been there. They later handled an urgent asbestos and demolition job for us at a private school in Auburn at very short notice, in and out with zero fuss. Reliable, licensed and easy to deal with. Highly recommended.”
Rapid call-out
Hangar 3, Sydney Airport — 45 m of Fencing, On Site in Under 24 Hours
HICON Building briefed us on a Wednesday morning: roughly 45 lineal metres of chain-wire fencing at Hangar 3 to dismantle and dispose of, needed the next day. Pricing confirmed in writing, SWMS lodged, Sydney Airport contractor inductions completed, and the crew on site for a 6:30am Thursday start — posts cut at ground level, every panel and post off site, the area cleaned down and handed back the same day.
Other recent commercial projects include Greater Sydney Parklands and Lane Cove West. Full project references and Certificate of Currency available on request.
What commercial clients say
Trusted on Commercial Sites
“I’ve used HazWreck across multiple projects — two full house demolitions in Auburn and Lidcombe, a commercial strip-out in Penrith, and ongoing site clean-ups. As a residential builder, having one contractor who can handle demolition, asbestos and site clearance under one roof saves me a huge amount of coordination and time. Baris and the team are professional, reliable and always hand the site back clean and ready to build on. Couldn’t be happier with the service.”
“As a commercial and residential builder I’ve used HazWreck on multiple projects and they’ve been excellent throughout. They handled a complete strip-out of a house in Carlton for me, and most recently a commercial asbestos strip-out and demolition at Strathfield Plaza. Having one licensed contractor who can take care of asbestos, strip-outs and demolition across both my resi and commercial sites makes my life so much easier. Professional, reliable and clean every time — couldn’t recommend them more.”
“HazWreck were brought in to remove asbestos from the old Commonwealth Bank building on Victoria Road, Gladesville, which we were turning into a Plus Fitness. They ended up taking on the complete strip-out and demolition, and the standard of work blew me away. As the demolition crew, they handed the site back not just clear but genuinely immaculate — and then went a step further and pressure washed the entire exterior until it was spotless. You expect a demo crew to leave a mess; these guys left it cleaner than they found it. Licensed, professional and they take real pride in their work. If you need asbestos removal, strip-out or demolition in Sydney, look no further.”
Sydney-wide
Commercial Strip-Outs Across Sydney
From the CBD to the commercial and industrial precincts right across the basin — based in Homebush, mobile Sydney-wide.
Good questions
Commercial Strip-Out — Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a commercial strip-out or office defit cost?
Strip-outs are scope-priced, not a flat rate — cost depends on floor area, fitout density, asbestos, after-hours work and waste volume. Rather than a misleading “from $X,” we walk the site and give you a fixed, itemised, named-scope quote you can read, with honest figures for any variations.
What’s the difference between a strip-out, a defit and a make-good?
A strip-out clears a space back to base building. A defit is that work driven by a lease ending — removing the outgoing tenant’s fitout. A make-good is meeting your lease’s specific reinstatement obligations. We read your lease schedule and quote to exactly what you need.
Do you do commercial internal demolition as well as strip-outs?
Yes. Non-structural internal demolition is the core of most commercial strip-outs — partition walls, ceilings and grid, floor coverings, joinery, and the services strip back to base building. Where the scope turns structural, load-bearing elements come out to an engineer’s propping design, as on our World Gym Penrith programme. Both are scope-priced after a site inspection and delivered to your programme, including overnight and weekend shifts.
Do you handle asbestos found during a strip-out?
Yes. HazWreck is SafeWork NSW Class B licensed (AD214755), so we remove bonded asbestos found in wall sheet, vinyl, eaves, switchboards or fire doors as part of the same contract — no stop-work, no second contractor. Friable material is Class A; if found, we stop and advise the correct licensed path.
Can you work overnight or out of hours to avoid disrupting trade?
Yes. We regularly work overnight, early mornings and weekends so retail, gyms, offices and venues can keep trading. We coordinate with building management on access, lifts and loading docks, and keep the site clean and discreet throughout.
Do you provide disposal dockets and clearance certificates?
Yes. All waste is disposed of at EPA-licensed facilities, and you receive disposal documentation on completion. Where asbestos is removed, we provide disposal dockets and arrange the clearance certificate, so your compliance record is complete.
How long does a commercial strip-out take?
It depends on the floor area, fitout density and whether work runs after hours or in stages. We give you a clear programme with your quote and work to your lease deadline or fitout schedule — many jobs are completed over a few nights or a short shutdown window.
Do you work with our builder, landlord or agent?
Constantly. We work with commercial builders and head contractors, landlords and asset managers, leasing and strata managers, and outgoing tenants — communicating clearly, supplying documentation, and handing back a space that’s ready to list, re-let or refit.
What areas do you cover?
Sydney metro and greater NSW, from our Homebush base — the CBD, inner city, and commercial and industrial precincts right across the basin.
The one call before hand-back
Get a Quote You Can Read
Send us the address and a few photos, or book a site walk-through. We’ll flag the asbestos risk early and give you a named scope with real dollar figures — no “we’ll sort it on site.”
HazWreck Pty Ltd
Unit 33A, 11-21 Underwood Rd, Homebush NSW 2140
0418 882 285 · [email protected]
SafeWork NSW Class B Licence AD214755 · ABN 63 688 823 789