Hammersmith is one of West London’s largest and most established office markets, and it behaves differently from the City or the West End at lease end. The stock is dominated by big corporate and media headquarters — Disney, Sony, Coca-Cola, Virgin and L’Oréal have all held significant space here — sitting in large, tightly-managed buildings around Hammersmith Road, the Broadway and the Thames riverside. When those occupiers move or consolidate, the reinstatement obligations are substantial. London Dilaps Ltd is a dilapidations specialist, not a general West London builder taking lease-end work on the side, and we mobilise into W6 regularly. We work directly with tenants, landlords and surveyors to price, programme and complete the full scope of works under one contract, with a single point of contact from first survey to final sign-off. We also work in Chiswick and White City.
Hammersmith’s office core runs along Hammersmith Road and Talgarth Road, around the Broadway interchange and out to the riverside at Fulham Reach. It is a large-floorplate corporate market: buildings such as 245 Hammersmith Road — at 242,000 sq ft the biggest development the area has seen in a generation — alongside One Lyric Square, The Ark, 10 Hammersmith Grove and the L’Oréal HQ on Hammersmith Road offer floor plates of roughly 8,000–20,000 sq ft that suit consumer-brand, media and advertising headquarters. Institutional owners including Legal & General and Mitsubishi Estate, and specialist investors such as FORE Partnership, hold much of the stock and run active asset-management programmes — so surveyors acting on W6 buildings are experienced and lease-end schedules are detailed. For a departing tenant, large fit-outs in closely-managed buildings enforced by capable surveyors is exactly where specialist dilapidations delivery pays for itself.
Corporate HQ floors around Hammersmith Road and the Broadway typically require full Cat A reinstatement — suspended ceilings, perimeter lighting, raised access floors, power and data distribution and finishes returned to landlord base-build — plus removal of every tenant alteration, M&E re-commissioning and a full schedule of condition pack. Media and brand occupiers tend to install heavy, bespoke fit-outs — studios, client-facing reception spaces, feature staircases and extensive AV and comms — so the strip-out and make-good scope in Hammersmith is often larger than the floor area alone suggests. We review the lease and every licence for alterations before we price, and we challenge schedule items that fall outside your contractual responsibility rather than accepting the served schedule as drafted. Because landlords’ cash settlements are routinely padded with contingency, professional fees and lost-rent allowances, completing the works directly usually lands at a lower net cost — and it closes your liability cleanly on handover.
Hammersmith’s constraints are about traffic and tightly-managed buildings, not narrow City lanes. The Broadway is one of West London’s busiest interchanges — the gyratory, bus station and four Underground lines generate near-constant congestion, so strip-out egress and material deliveries have to be booked around off-peak windows. The large managed buildings along Hammersmith Road operate goods-lift bookings, loading-bay slots and out-of-hours delivery windows set by each estate team, and the riverside developments at Fulham Reach add their own access limits. We plan every W6 project around these realities — sequencing egress into early-morning, evening and weekend slots, handling building inductions and permits-to-work, and coordinating with management and neighbouring tenants so the works run without disrupting a live, multi-tenant building. Our teams cover Hammersmith and the surrounding W6, W14 and W12 postcodes regularly, extending naturally into Chiswick, Fulham, Shepherd’s Bush, Kensington and White City.
Every project starts with a proper survey of the space against the served schedule and the lease behind it — not a desktop estimate. From that we produce an itemised, fixed-price proposal and a programme built around your handover date. We manage the parts that slow tenants down — building induction, permits-to-work, multi-tenant liaison and surveyor sign-off — directly, so you keep control of specification, quality and programme rather than handing it to the landlord’s contractor. At completion we run a pre-handover inspection, snag anything a surveyor would flag, compile full photographic documentation, and deliver a compliance pack that closes the account cleanly. One point of contact runs the job from first call to final sign-off.
Hammersmith’s buildings are large, corporate and closely managed, and the surveyors advising Legal & General, Mitsubishi Estate and the area’s specialist investors know exactly what a full reinstatement should include. This is not a market to hand to a refurbishment contractor learning dilapidations on your job. Lease-end works — strip-out, make-good and Cat A reinstatement — are the whole of what we do, and we carry £5 million public and employers’ liability cover, run experienced site teams and provide a documented handover on every contract. Our direct-to-contractor pricing typically comes in 20–50% below the landlord’s contractor on like-for-like scope, and because we deliver the physical works rather than negotiating a cash figure, your liability closes on handover instead of staying open for years.
Our specialist office dilapidations service covers the full lease-end repair and compliance programme for Hammersmith tenants — reviewing your lease, agreeing scope with your surveyor, and delivering repairs, redecoration, reversal of tenant alterations and schedule-of-condition compliance under a single fixed-price contract, from first assessment to final handover.
We deliver complete office reinstatement returns Hammersmith office floors to landlord base-build — suspended ceilings, perimeter lighting, raised access flooring, power and data, decorations and all make-good works — to the standard Legal & General, Mitsubishi Estate and the area’s other institutional landlords expect on a reinstated floor.
Our office strip-out services in London cover full removal of tenant fit-out across Hammersmith and W6 — partitions, ceilings, raised floors, kitchens, joinery, data cabling, AV and M&E — planned around Broadway congestion, managed-building goods lifts and riverside access, and finished ready for landlord inspection or Cat A reinstatement.
Yes. We work across Hammersmith Road and Talgarth Road, the Broadway, Brook Green and the Fulham Reach riverside, and extend naturally into Chiswick, Fulham, Shepherd’s Bush, White City and Kensington.
As a broad guide, end-of-lease strip-out and Cat A reinstatement on a Hammersmith corporate floor runs from about £18 to £30 per square foot, with heavy media or brand fit-outs at the upper end. We provide a free site visit and a fixed-price quotation for every project, so you know the exact figure before committing.
Yes. Studios, screening and client suites, feature staircases, extensive AV and comms and bespoke reception areas are common in Hammersmith, and we scope the full removal and make-good back to landlord base-build, not just the standard partition strip.
In most Hammersmith cases, completing the works directly is cheaper and cleaner than a cash settlement — landlords’ figures are usually padded with contingency, fees and lost-rent allowances, and doing the works closes your liability on handover. Settlement can favour the tenant where the landlord is refurbishing or redeveloping, or where the lease ends in under eight weeks.
The large managed buildings run goods-lift bookings, loading-bay slots and out-of-hours windows, and the Broadway gyratory dictates when a strip-out lorry can load. We sequence egress and deliveries around those windows and handle inductions and permits-to-work directly.
As much as possible — the cleanest outcomes come from engaging us 6 to 12 months out. The minimum practical notice is around eight weeks, by which point we can still mobilise a fixed-price contract. Inside eight weeks, call us first and we’ll tell you what’s realistic.
Have a Hammersmith Road, Broadway or riverside reinstatement to price? Get a free, fixed-price dilapidations quote before you hand back your office — we’ll review your obligations and tell you exactly where you stand.